{"id":148249,"date":"2025-11-22T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148249\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:52:07","slug":"teenage-sensation-rejects-interest-from-multiple-nrl-teams-to-remain-overseas-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148249\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage sensation rejects interest from multiple NRL teams to remain overseas – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best young overseas talents has rejected the interest of nearly half a dozen NRL<\/a> clubs to remain in the Super League<\/a> competition on a long-term contract.<\/p>\n

After impressing multiple NRL<\/a> officials during the Warrington Wolves<\/a> Academy tour of Australia<\/a>, which saw him compete against the Gold Coast Titans<\/a>, Penrith Panthers<\/a> and an Under-17s NSW Invitational representative side, halfback Ewan Irwin has inked a five-year contract to remain at the Wolves.<\/p>\n

Before re-signing with the Wolves until the end of 2030, sources with knowledge of the situation told\u00a0Zero Tackle\u00a0that he had attracted the interest of at five six NRL<\/a> teams.<\/p>\n

Regarded as one of the top playmakers coming out of the United Kingdom, Irwin made three appearances in 2025, which included becoming the club’s third-youngest debutant in the Super League<\/a> era.<\/p>\n

“I’m glad to have committed my future to the Club and I’m really excited for the challenges ahead,” Irwin said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“It’s a competitive environment, and that’s exactly where you want to be. Academy and Reserves level is very strong, but this is a step up now into the first team, and I’m looking forward to what’s next.<\/p>\n

“I want to take it game by game, put my best foot forward, and see where it takes me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Producing a best on-ground performance against the Under-17s NSW Invitational side less than a month ago, Irwin led the Wolves Academy to title success, in which they went unbeaten throughout the season and delivered a Man of the Match showing in the Grand Final against Leeds Rhinos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’m really excited Ewan’s committed his future to the club for the next five years. He’s shown great potential and leadership with the U18s and Reserves last year,” Warrington Wolves<\/a> coach Sam Bugess added.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully, he continues with his progression next season and beyond. Above all else, he’s an outstanding young man with a bright future ahead of him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the best young overseas talents has rejected the interest of nearly half a dozen NRL clubs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-148249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}