{"id":355001,"date":"2026-03-30T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355001\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:09:08","slug":"will-warbrick-signs-three-year-deal-to-join-warriors-from-next-nrl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355001\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Warbrick signs three-year deal to join Warriors from next NRL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Making his NRL debut in 2023, Warbrick has now scored 43 tries in 60 appearances for the Storm while he made a try-scoring Test debut for the Kiwis against the Kangaroos in the 2024 Pacific Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBringing Will home to play for the Warriors is huge for us,\u201d said New Zealand Warriors head coach Andrew Webster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe\u2019ll be a terrific asset on the wing with his height, pace, aerial ability at both ends of the field, his work rate and attitude. He also comes out of a great system at the Storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Warbrick, who played in the Storm\u2019s back-to-back grand finals in 2024 and 2025, averages more than 150m a game across his career while he\u2019s returning more than 170m a game so far this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">He switched to rugby league from rugby union in 2022 after spending three years with the All Blacks Sevens which included being a member of the silver medal-winning squad at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Making his NRL debut in 2023, Warbrick has now scored 43 tries in 60 appearances for the Storm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[80649,3468,5504,71,19755,123,111,139,1536,577,69,5908,7566,6926,48613,5652,213,673,71162,61,1865,187761,3006,1533,33345,80],"class_list":["post-355001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-confirmation","tag-deal","tag-following","tag-from","tag-join","tag-melbourne","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nrl","tag-nz","tag-official","tag-outstanding","tag-season","tag-signing","tag-signs","tag-sports","tag-storm","tag-threeyear","tag-to","tag-today","tag-warbrick","tag-warriors","tag-will","tag-winger","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355001","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=355001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}