{"id":421617,"date":"2026-05-11T02:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/421617\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:30:11","slug":"harris-tavita-bucks-market-trend-with-contract-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/421617\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris-Tavita bucks market trend with contract demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/chanel-harris-tavita\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chanel Harris-Tavita<\/a> has never been one to follow the crowd, and the gun Warriors half is bucking the market trend once again, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> clubs he wants just a 12-month deal rather than the lucrative multi-year contracts on offer.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Samoan playmaker is keeping his options deliberately short, with his preference being to sign only for the 2027 season, according to The Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Harris-Tevita&#8217;s management has already cast its net around the competition, making contact with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/png-chiefs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PNG Chiefs<\/a>, the NRL&#8217;s incoming 19th franchise.<\/p>\n<p>That avenue, however, appears to have closed before it fully opened, as they landed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jarome-luai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarome Luai<\/a> as their marquee and foundational signing.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, he took a sabbatical to travel the world and has wasted no time in reestablishing himself as one of the Warriors&#8217; most dangerous attacking weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his unconventional contract stance, clubs will be aware of the attacking flair and creativity he can bring to a side.<\/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; Chanel Harris-Tavita has never been one to follow the crowd, and the gun Warriors half is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-421617","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\/421617","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=421617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}