{"id":452248,"date":"2026-05-30T05:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452248\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:43:11","slug":"broncos-winger-set-to-depart-weighs-up-move-to-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452248\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos winger set to depart, weighs up move to rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brisbane Broncos<\/a> are set to lose winger Jesse Arthars<\/a> at the end of 2026 in the latest hit to their backline depth.<\/p>\n

It’s understood the Broncos were keen to retain Arthars, but he will instead explore either returning to the Gold Coast Titans<\/a>, or leaving the NRL<\/a> altogether to play rugby union overseas.<\/p>\n

Salary cap pressures have forced Arthars out of the club, with Brisbane needing to prioritise young guns Antonio Verhoeven<\/a> and Phillip Coates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brisbane’s salary cap has been squeezed for years, and something had to give despite the loss of Payne Haas<\/a> at the end of 2026 to the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most of that cash has been soaked up by the arrival of Mitch Barnett<\/a> from the New Zealand Warriors<\/a>, as well as contract upgrades and extensions for a host of players, led by Reece Walsh<\/a> and Kotoni Staggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

News Corp are reporting Arthars is simply looking for more game time, and will leave Red Hill as a result.<\/p>\n

Arthars, who was once a permanent member of Michael Maguire’s side, has slipped well down the pecking order across the back-end of 2025 and into 2026, but the Broncos are caught at an intriguing juncture.<\/p>\n

Arthars departure is joined by that of Grant Anderson<\/a> to the New Zealand Warriors<\/a> at the end of the year in a player swap that allowed Barnett to join, while Gehamat Shibasaki<\/a> is also set to leave with Zero Tackle learning four clubs outside of the Broncos are chasing him.<\/p>\n

Brisbane needing to make an increased offer to Shibasaki – we have been told the $300,000 reported elsewhere is false – has taken away any chance of Arthars remaining at the club, although losing all three outside backs would leave the Broncos very short for 2027.<\/p>\n

As it stands, the club have just six outside backs locked up if fullback Reece Walsh<\/a> is included, with the star joined by Staggs, Deine Mariner<\/a>, Kotoni Staggs<\/a>, Antonio Verhoeven<\/a> and Phillip Coates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s understood, per reports, that the Titans have a two-year deal on the table for Arthars, in what would be a return to the club for the outside back.<\/p>\n

He debuted for the Titans in 2019 and played 12 games with the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

The Auckland-born outside back would slot straight into the spot vacated by Phillip Sami<\/a> who moves to the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> at the end of the year, however, it’s understood he is also keen on trying his hand at rugby union in Japan where he has also received interest.<\/p>\n

Arthars, who came through the Keebra Park High School system, played rugby league once he arrived in Australia<\/a>, and has limited experience in rugby union, moving from Queensland to Melbourne in 2016 where he played for the Melbourne Storm<\/a> in the National Youth Cup, before spending time in reserve grade with the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> prior to his NRL<\/a> debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brisbane Broncos are set to lose winger Jesse Arthars at the end of 2026 in the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-452248","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\/452248","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=452248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}