{"id":420414,"date":"2026-05-10T04:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/420414\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:51:08","slug":"wayne-bennett-missed-out-on-signing-warriors-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/420414\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Bennett missed out on signing Warriors star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/wayne-bennett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Bennett<\/a> has missed out on one of his top targets, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/new-zealand-warriors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Warriors<\/a> set to lock away one of the NRL&#8217;s form players on a new multi-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph reported that the 25-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/tanah-boyd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tanah Boyd<\/a>, who has been one of the NRL&#8217;s standout performers this season, attracted the attention of Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>The playmaker has made clear where his loyalty lies, and the Warriors are expected to announce the deal in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>South Sydney tried to make a move for the former Gold Coast Titan to reunite Boyd with former teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/david-fifita\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Fifita<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd was off-contract after this season, and his time in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/international-teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a> has amounted to a genuine career revival after spending most of the 2025 season in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nswrl-competitions\/nsw-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NSW Cup, <\/a>where he was part of the team that won the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nswrl-competitions\/nsw-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> NSW Cup <\/a>premiership and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> state champions.<\/p>\n<p>After the Titans released Boyd and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/erin-clark\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erin Clark<\/a> from the club one month apart from each other after the 2024 season, he has evolved into one of the competition&#8217;s most consistent performers this season, rewarding the Warriors&#8217; faith with a string of eye-catching displays that have had rival clubs scrambling to register their interest.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Wayne Bennett has missed out on one of his top targets, with the New Zealand Warriors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-420414","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\/420414","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=420414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}