Veteran centre Adam Pompey has been granted an early release from his contract with the NZ Warriors.<\/p>\n
The Auckland-based NRL club announced the 28-year-old will depart for Australia after eight seasons with them.<\/p>\n
While the Warriors did not confirm which club Pompey was moving to, Fox Sports reported he was expected to sign with the Melbourne Storm.<\/p>\n
Pompey made 136 NRL appearances for the Warriors since his debut in 2019, scoring 288 points – including 39 tries and 66 goals.<\/p>\n
“Adam has performed consistently for us since his arrival in 2019,” Warriors general manager Andrew McFadden said.<\/p>\n
“We appreciate the contribution he has made in his time here and wish him and his family the very best for what lies ahead for them in Australia.”<\/p>\n
Barnett will leave in exchange for outside back Grant Anderson.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, the Warriors announced the signing of Storm winger Will Warbrick on a three-year contract.<\/p>\n
Warbrick ruptured Achilles tendon against Sydney Roosters in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran centre Adam Pompey has been granted an early release from his contract with the NZ Warriors. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-609945","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\/609945","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=609945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}