{"id":610957,"date":"2026-09-25T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610957\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:04:10","slug":"five-nrl-internationals-confronted-by-teen-armed-with-knife-in-auckland-before-kiwis-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610957\/","title":{"rendered":"Five NRL internationals confronted by teen armed with knife in Auckland before Kiwis match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite holding a knife, a witness told the Sydney Morning Herald the teen was likely to find himself in danger from the league player. <\/p>\n

The NRL said it was not aware of the incident.<\/p>\n

\"ToaToa Samoa’s Terrell May was confronted by a teen with a knife in Auckland. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old May left the squad after the incident, partly because he was also worried about his younger brother Taylan, who did not make the squad, the Sydney newspaper said. <\/p>\n

Toa Samoa had an opening round 18-24 loss<\/a> to the Kiwis<\/a> at Go Media Stadium on October 19.<\/p>\n

May returned to the team and started on the bench for his side\u2019s 34-6 victory over Tonga in Brisbane<\/a>, but did not make the side for the final against the Kiwis at Sydney\u2019s CommBank Stadium in November. <\/p>\n

New Zealand won 36-14<\/a> and lifted their second Pacific Championship trophy. <\/p>\n

Terrell had a tough season with Wests Tigers, with the team finishing third-bottom on the ladder. <\/p>\n

Across 23 games, he scored one try and averaged 149 running metres per game. <\/p>\n

The 27-year-old is expected to make the Samoa Rugby League World Cup squad, but faces tough competition from Payne Haas, Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui and Spencer Leniu for a starting spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite holding a knife, a witness told the Sydney Morning Herald the teen was likely to find himself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9092,7814,51,9218,3595,69895,1342,78,1464,807,61094,10543,111,139,577,69,17182,213,5163,3608,102],"class_list":["post-610957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-against","tag-armed","tag-auckland","tag-before","tag-by","tag-confronted","tag-five","tag-in","tag-internationals","tag-kiwis","tag-knife","tag-match","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nrl","tag-nz","tag-reportedly","tag-sports","tag-teen","tag-were","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610957","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=610957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}