{"id":504015,"date":"2026-07-01T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504015\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:02:08","slug":"warriors-luke-laulilii-and-riley-price-signed-as-finals-push-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504015\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors: Luke Laulilii and Riley Price signed as finals push begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laulilii posted an emotional message on social media thanking the Tigers and fans for their support.<\/p>\n

\"LukeLuke Laulilii has signed for the Warriors from Wests Tigers. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to everyone at the Wests Tigers for the opportunities, the memories, and the people who made this chapter so special,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve learned so much, grown both on and off the field, and I\u2019ll always be thankful for everyone who believed in and supported me along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo my teammates, coaches, staff, and everyone behind the scenes thank you.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll always appreciate everything you\u2019ve done for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The winger has scored 10 tries in 17 NRL games across his career, including six in eight matches this season.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Riley Price, son of former Warrior Steve Price, has been signed on a development contract to the end of 2026 and will move into the top 30 squad next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting for us having Riley back at the club he knows so well from his time living in Auckland when his father was here,\u201d McFadden said.<\/p>\n

\u201cRiley has tasted NRL football and gained a lot of experience playing in the Queensland Cup and New South Wales Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has terrific footballing pedigree through his father and will bring a lot to our squad with his professional attitude and work ethic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also a thrill seeing the next generation coming through with yet another son of one of our former players joining the club.\u201d<\/p>\n

Riley moved from Auckland to Australia when he was 15, later playing for the Townsville Blackhawks and eventually playing for North Queensland and the Penrith Panthers in the NRL.<\/p>\n

The Warriors\u2019 next fixture comes on July 10 against Laulilii\u2019s former team<\/a> Wests Tigers<\/a>, who beat the New Zealand-based side 32-14 at Go Media Stadium<\/a> earlier this season.<\/p>\n

The Warriors currently sit second on the NRL ladder, equal on 24 points with the Dolphins, Roosters and Knights who each trail the table-topping Panthers on 28 points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laulilii posted an emotional message on social media thanking the Tigers and fans for their support. Luke Laulilii…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,95,696,806,11154,49640,3011,6489,305,685,247732,5342,102883,111,139,69,3333,15400,18661,6091,31706,14004,213,7187,165,1529,3006],"class_list":["post-504015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-and","tag-announced","tag-as","tag-begins","tag-finals","tag-four","tag-games","tag-have","tag-last","tag-laulilii","tag-losses","tag-luke","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-price","tag-push","tag-pushes","tag-riley","tag-signed","tag-signings","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-their","tag-three","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504015","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=504015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}