{"id":152431,"date":"2025-11-25T06:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152431\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T06:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:16:07","slug":"warriors-hooker-granted-immediate-release-signs-with-new-club-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152431\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors hooker granted immediate release, signs with new club – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

After managing just two appearances for the New Zealand Warriors<\/a> last season, dummy-half Freddy Lussick<\/a> has been granted an immediate release from the remainder of his contract to sign with a new club.<\/p>\n

The brother of Darcy Lussick<\/a> and Joey Lussick<\/a>, Freddy’s time at the Warriors has come to a close after four years with the club, having arrived there in 2022 following stints with the Sydney Roosters<\/a> and St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With his partner posting a farewell to New Zealand<\/a> on social media over the weekend, it has now been revealed that the 25-year-old has\u00a0become the latest Warriors player to sign with the Penrith Panthers<\/a>, per The Daily Telegraph.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Warriors have now confirmed his departure, while the Panthers are yet to make comment.<\/p>\n

This follows the recruitment of Kalani Going<\/a>, Toby Crosby<\/a>, Tom Ale<\/a> and Patrick Moimoi<\/a>, thus making him the fifth player to join the club during the off-season.<\/p>\n

Should he join the Panthers with 50 NRL<\/a> matches to his name, he will contend with rookie Billy Scott<\/a> to be Mitch Kenny’s back-up next season as the Panthers look to return to the grand final after missing out on it in 2025 for the first time in six years.<\/p>\n

The Warriors head of recruitment Andrew McFadden<\/a> praised Lussick’s efforts with the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cFreddy has been a great contributor since his arrival in 2022,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re grateful for all he has done in his time with us and wish him and his family the very best for their future back in Australia<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lussick had been signed with the Warriors until 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After managing just two appearances for the New Zealand Warriors last season, dummy-half Freddy Lussick has been granted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-152431","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\/152431","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=152431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}