{"id":98323,"date":"2025-08-26T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98323\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:48:10","slug":"new-zealand-warriors-forward-set-to-join-new-team-for-2026-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98323\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Warriors forward set to join new team for 2026 &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/penrith-panthers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penrith Panthers<\/a> are reportedly set to add to their forward stocks for the 2026 season with a new signing from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/new-zealand-warriors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Warriors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers have yet to fill all their Top 30 roster spots for next season and have decided to look to the open market.<\/p>\n<p>While it has been heavily reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/daine-laurie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daine Laurie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/luke-sommerton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Sommerton<\/a> are among a group of players that won&#8217;t be offered new deals to remain at the club, Penrith is set to fill one of those vacant spots with a new recruit.<\/p>\n<p>Without a contract for next season and on the lookout for a new deal,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/how-manly-hooker-jake-simpkins-wife-helped-deliver-him-to-sea-eagles-game-after-giving-birth\/news-story\/27b33e0376e0255807de80df9f4f34ba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> The Daily Telegraph<\/a> reports that the Panthers are set to sign forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/tom-ale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Ale<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/new-zealand-warriors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Warriors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Debuting in 2020, the 26-year-old has featured in 42 matches in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> throughout his career, but hasn&#8217;t played a single game this season and instead has been relegated to reserve-grade.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to sign Ale comes after fellow Warriors forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/kayliss-fatialofa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kayliss Fatialofa<\/a> backflipped on a decision to join them, instead deciding to remain in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/international-teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a> after inking a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The Penrith Panthers are reportedly set to add to their forward stocks for the 2026 season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-98323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98323","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=98323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}