{"id":396905,"date":"2026-04-25T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396905\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:14:09","slug":"tanah-boyd-in-negotiations-over-future-preference-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396905\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanah Boyd in negotiations over future, preference revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Zealand Warriors<\/a> are believed to have commenced talks over a contract extension with the in-form Tanah Boyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The halfback spent most of 2025 on the fringe of the Warriors side, shut out by good form from the incumbent halfback Luke Metcalf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Metcalf’s ACL injury at the back-end of the year opened the door for Boyd though, and while the ex-Gold Coast Titan struggled a little through the end of 2025, his form to start 2026 has been tremendous.<\/p>\n

The only games the Warriors have lost leading up to Round 8’s Anzac Day clash against the Dolphins<\/a> in Wellington are the two Metcalf played, when he returned from injury and played at five-eighth.<\/p>\n

Boyd’s form keeping him at halfback has now led to the opening of talks over his future, and while an agreement is still believed to be a little way off, journalist Brent Read said a deal is likely with Boyd showing no desire to leave Auckland.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Tanah Boyd<\/a> wants to stay at the Warriors,” Read said on Triple M’s NRL<\/a> Daily. “That’s his preference, and that’s who they’re negotiating with at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will only move if that deal won’t get done.”<\/p>\n

There has been plenty of speculation that other clubs – whether it be the Perth Bears<\/a> or ones based in Sydney – could make a play for Boyd who has started to relise his enormous potential this year.<\/p>\n

Exactly what a re-signing would mean for Metcalf, who also recently re-signed, remains to be seen though.<\/p>\n

He recently suggested his preference is to play at halfback, but with Boyd in such strong form, and not likely to shuffle to the number six, five-eighth could be Metcalf’s role for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

That, despite the fact he was leading the Dally M from the number seven jersey by a considerable distance when the count went behind closed doors last year.<\/p>\n

Boyd has been able to negotiate with rival clubs since November 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Zealand Warriors are believed to have commenced talks over a contract extension with the in-form Tanah…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-396905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396905","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=396905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}