{"id":658842,"date":"2026-05-09T01:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658842\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T01:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:21:27","slug":"nrl-news-2026-the-mole-exclusive-sydney-roosters-to-sign-murray-taulagi-to-replace-mark-nawaqanitawase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658842\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL News 2026, The Mole Exclusive: Sydney Roosters to sign Murray Taulagi to replace Mark Nawaqanitawase"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sydney Roosters<\/a> are close to signing Cowboys<\/a> try machine Murray Taulagi as the replacement for rugby union bound superstar Mark Nawaqanitawase<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The bullocking Taulagi is a very different type of winger to the speedy, crafty Nawaqanitawase.<\/p>\n

But they share one trait – the ability to score tries – and that is what is attracting the Roosters’ interest.<\/p>\n

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The 27-year-old winger has scored 70 tries in 115 NRL games for the Cowboys – including a hat trick last-up against the Sharks.<\/p>\n

Taulagi is one of the NRL’s most powerful wingers close to the try line and will get plenty of chances to add to his tally in the hot-shot Roosters backline.<\/p>\n

\"TOWNSVILLE,<\/p>\n

Murray Taulagi dives in for a recent try against the Sharks.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The powerful winger has played his entire NRL<\/a> career at the Cowboys but is off contract at the end of the season and will make an immediate switch to the Roosters in summer.<\/p>\n

The Roosters will field a new-look backline in 2027, with goal kicking centre\/winger Reuben Garrick (Sea Eagles) also coming on board.<\/p>\n

Nawaqanitawase will be a huge loss and the Roosters have been on the hunt for a suitable replacement for several months.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2026 NRL season live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sydney Roosters are close to signing Cowboys try machine Murray Taulagi as the replacement for rugby union…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-658842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}