{"id":81350,"date":"2025-08-20T02:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81350\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T02:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:18:07","slug":"wests-tigers-set-to-meet-with-taylan-may-over-new-deal-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81350\/","title":{"rendered":"Wests Tigers set to meet with Taylan May over new deal – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

After it was announced earlier in the season by CEO Shane Richardson that Taylan May’s contract would be reviewed at the end of the year, the Wests Tigers<\/a> are now reportedly set to extend the outside back’s contract.<\/p>\n

Having made several moves to their roster ahead of the 2025 NRL<\/a> season, which saw the additions of Jarome Luai<\/a>, Sunia Turuva<\/a> and Terrell May<\/a>, the Tigers have continued to make several changes to their list for next season.<\/p>\n

Over the past few weeks, they have confirmed the signings of Ethan Roberts<\/a> (Roosters), Jock Madden<\/a> (Broncos), Javon Andrews<\/a> (Titans), Jock Madden<\/a> (Broncos), Kai Pearce-Paul<\/a> (Knights) and Mavrik Geyer<\/a> (Panthers).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, they have retained centre Starford To’a<\/a> on a long-term extension and secured Adam Doueihi<\/a>, who was off-contract at the end of 2025 and was heavily linked to the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, the Wests Tigers<\/a> are set to secure another star player.<\/p>\n

Currently on a train-and-trial contract after arriving at the club in the middle of the season, The Daily Telegraph<\/a> reports that the Wests Tigers<\/a> are hoping to extend Taylan May’s contract, which would not only see him remain at the club but also move to a Top 30 contract.<\/p>\n

Journalist David Riccio also revealed on\u00a0Triple M radio\u00a0that May will sit down with the Tigers this week as he prepares to have his deal extended and upgraded.<\/p>\n

A five-time Samoan international, the 24-year-old has only played on four occasions for the Tigers but holds a 75 per cent winning rate during his time at the club and was the best on-ground in two of those matches against the Gold Coast Titans<\/a> and Manly Sea Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Formerly with the Penrith Panthers<\/a>, he has scored two tries, provided three try assists, made 18 tackle busts and three line-breaks as well as averaged 130 running metres per game during those appearances.<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly, Taylan is a quality player who will further strengthen our squad in the back end of the competition,\u201d Wests Tigers<\/a> CEO Shane Richardson said earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we also believe his best chance of success on and off the field is if he is around family and friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will now have the chance to not only return to a team environment but also to play alongside his brother Terrell, which is important to him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After it was announced earlier in the season by CEO Shane Richardson that Taylan May’s contract would be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-81350","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\/81350","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=81350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}