{"id":564487,"date":"2026-08-10T07:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564487\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:58:11","slug":"warriors-v-broncos-kiwi-club-confirms-signing-of-north-queensland-cowboys-forward-sam-mcintyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564487\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors v Broncos: Kiwi club confirms signing of North Queensland Cowboys forward Sam McIntyre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SamSam McIntyre has penned a two-year deal with the Warriors. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

This season, McIntyre has made 14 appearances for the Cowboys, and has made 390 tackles at a success rate of just less than 89%. With ball in hand, he averages 58 running metres per game, to go with one try. <\/p>\n

McIntyre\u2019s arrival will also add depth to a Warriors forward pack brimming with young talent, after the quintet of Leka Halasima, Demitric Vaimauga, Tanner Stowers-Smith, Eddie Ieremia-Toeava and Jacob Laban have established themselves as first-graders this year. <\/p>\n

Aside from covering the departure of Brisbane Broncos-bound Barnett, McIntyre\u2019s arrival also comes as Marata Niukore leaves for the Newcastle Knights while Morgan Gannon will return to the UK Super League with Leeds Rhinos.<\/p>\n

McIntyre becomes the third new recruit for the Warriors\u2019 2027 campaign. Kiwis winger Will Warbrick has signed a three-year deal to join from the Melbourne Storm, but will need to recover from a ruptured Achilles tendon, suffered in his side\u2019s round 20 loss to the Sydney Roosters.<\/p>\n

Brisbane Broncos utility back Grant Anderson has also been signed in exchange for Barnett<\/a>, and will add cover at centre as well as the wing. <\/p>\n

Alex Powell<\/a> is a sports journalist for the NZ Herald. He has been a sports journalist since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam McIntyre has penned a two-year deal with the Warriors. Photo \/ Getty Images This season, McIntyre has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27309,696,9687,18836,13242,85372,19134,71,305,194,92736,130,12942,111,139,1536,529,69,1118,29241,3654,18460,48613,213,165,3006,379],"class_list":["post-564487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-added","tag-announced","tag-broncos","tag-club","tag-confirms","tag-cowboys","tag-forward","tag-from","tag-have","tag-kiwi","tag-mcintyre","tag-more","tag-muscle","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-pack","tag-queensland","tag-sam","tag-signing","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-warriors","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564487","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=564487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}