{"id":173554,"date":"2025-12-08T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/173554\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:29:07","slug":"sloan-or-tu-dragons-wing-showdown-heats-up-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/173554\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloan or Tu?: Dragons wing showdown heats up – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyrell Sloan<\/a> may have scored 17 tries in 20 matches for the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> during the 2025 NRL<\/a> season, but recent reports from pre-season training have revealed that he is unlikely to keep his spot in the back-line for next year.<\/p>\n

Linked with an exit from the club as early as June, reports from\u00a0<\/a>Wide World of Sports<\/a>\u00a0have emerged that Sloan has now fallen behind new recruit Setu Tu<\/a> in the pecking order, with the former New Zealand Warriors<\/a> flyer a smokey to be named in Round 1.<\/p>\n

The rest of the back-line is set to be made up of Clinton Gutherson<\/a>, Christian Tuipolotu, Valentine Holmes<\/a> and Moses Suli<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet to play a single match in first-grade, Tu arrives at the Dragons following a strong NSW Cup<\/a> campaign with the Warriors, which saw him help them win the grand final and State Championship.<\/p>\n

Previously spending time in The Dolphins<\/a> system as well, the 27-year-old scored 13 tries, made 60 tackle busts and 13 line-breaks, provided two try assists and ran a total of 1414 metres (101 per game) in 14 reserve-grade appearances.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s elusive, athletic, robust \u2014 he ticks a lot of boxes for us,” Flanagan said in a statement when Tu arrived at the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s good in the air, plays with a lot of confidence and is a genuine try-scorer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis versatility across the backline will add valuable depth to our squad. We look forward to him joining the club for a big preseason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrell Sloan may have scored 17 tries in 20 matches for the St George Illawarra Dragons during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-173554","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\/173554","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=173554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}