{"id":613496,"date":"2026-09-27T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613496\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:22:12","slug":"tom-deardens-agent-addresses-cowboys-exit-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613496\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Dearden’s agent addresses Cowboys exit rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Queensland Cowboys<\/a> star Tom Dearden<\/a> and his management have made it known he will remain in Townsville at least until the end of his current contract.<\/p>\n

Dearden is locked down until the end of the 2029 season, but constant speculation has bubbled away of an exit from the club to relocate to New South Wales.<\/p>\n

Given his partner lives in Sydney, it has created media conjecture about his future in the NRL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dearden will remain in North Queensland after his agent told the Sydney Morning Herald\u00a0he has no plans of leaving the club he’s spent the past six seasons with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can’t say it strongly enough \u2013 Tom Dearden<\/a> is going nowhere,\u201d his agent Sam Ayoub told the publication.<\/p>\n

\"TOWNSVILLE,TOWNSVILLE, AUSTRALIA – JULY 12: Tom Dearden of the Cowboys looks on during the round 19 NRL match between North Queensland Cowboys and Canterbury Bulldogs at Queensland Country Bank Stadium, on July 12, 2025, in Townsville, Australia. (Photo by Ian Hitchcock\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has come out publicly and said as much, and he’s telling the truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find it very disturbing when people are linking him to the South Sydney club. I have not talked to Souths or any club about Tom. He will be playing with the Cowboys.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cowboys and Dearden held a press conference in August to address the media noise surrounding his future, also nipping it in the bud at the time.<\/p>\n

Rumours still followed Dearden until now, with Ayoub confirming the good news for Townsville locals.<\/p>\n

Despite an injury-disrupted campaign this year, Dearden is one of the best playmakers in the competition and seriously flexed his muscle when he got the call-up as the first-choice QLD Maroons<\/a> halfback in 2025, taking over from Daly Cherry-Evans<\/a> in Game’s 1 and 2.<\/p>\n

\"2025Tom Dearden during Game 3 of the 2025 State of Origin match between the NSW Blues and the QLD Maroons. (Photo: Joshua Davis)<\/p>\n

Dearden went into the final two matches and impressed heavily, winning the Wally Lewis Medal (series MVP), becoming the 11th Queenslander to take home the accolade.<\/p>\n

The club bowed out of the premiership race at the hands of the Cronulla Sharks<\/a> in Week 1 after finishing eighth in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Queensland Cowboys star Tom Dearden and his management have made it known he will remain in Townsville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-613496","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\/613496","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=613496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}