Final tickets still available! Get your tickets for the British & Irish Lions tour here<\/a><\/p>\nPicking up three caps for the Australia U20 side in 2023, Pearce’s 2025 season was cut short in Round 10 due to a shoulder injury, with the prop proving both handy as a starter and bench player.<\/p>\n
Despite the disappointment, Pearce has enjoyed a strong 2025 season so far; playing eight matches and earning selection in the First Nations Pasifika XV side that will take on the British & Irish Lions tomorrow, with the prop set to come off the bench.<\/p>\n
His father Michael started at the club as part of the medical staff – so the chance to lock down three more years was one not to miss for the Joondalup Brothers product and Fortescue Academy graduate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m grateful to extend with my hometown Club,” Pearce confirmed in an official statement. <\/p>\n
“I\u2019m really happy with how it\u2019s going at the Force and it\u2019s a privilege to represent WA for three more years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a good core group of players, with a lot of young guys like myself. If we stay together, we\u2019ve got exciting potential. There\u2019s no cap on how far we can go.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have really relationships with the players here, like senior players Brandon Paenga-Amosa and Nick Champion de Crespigny who\u2019ve helped me improve my game. The playing group has a real care for each other and drive each other every day. It\u2019s a great place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
The signing also comes as good news for the Force – with the club having a key goal to produce as many homegrown Wallabies as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of his development as a prop comes with experience and age. We feel like this year he\u2019s really taken another step in his game,” said head coach Simon Cron in a press statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not only a big body and doing a great job at scrum time, but he\u2019s got good feet and a high work rate around the park. He\u2019s got a really high ceiling for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a WA boy through and through, so we\u2019ve just got to keep growing him and investing in him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to earn your spot and Marley has done that as a local player coming through the WA pathway. What he\u2019s done in our program over the last two-and-a-half-years is a credit to him and his development where he can now compete against the best players in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see by signing a three-year deal that he\u2019s invested in the Western Force as well, keeping that core group of players together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force have continued to lock down talent long term, re-signing exciting local prop Marley Pearce until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,11229],"class_list":["post-9540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540","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=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}