Melbourne have rewarded utility Nick Meaney for a career-best season by signing him to a contract extension till the top of 2024.
The Storm relied on Meaney’s versatility in his first 12 months on the membership to assist fight a string of accidents.
He lined Cameron Munster and Ryan Papenhuyzen at five-eighth and fullback respectively and likewise slotted in on the wing.
Meaney shared the membership’s award for greatest again in 2022, having scored extra tries than in every other season of his profession (13).
He additionally assumed chief goal-kicking duties when Papenhuyzen was out injured.
Pending the health of his teammates, Meaney seems more likely to line up on one wing for the Storm in 2023, with Xavier Coates on the opposite. He had already been contracted for this season.
“I am actually completely happy to have the negotiations carried out and to have these two years, 2023 and now 2024, locked in,” Meaney mentioned in a press release.
“I can now consider the principle job and that is coaching and shortly we’ll be again taking part in.”
Elsewhere, the Warriors have secured native juniors Bunty Afoa and Tom Ale by way of to the top of 2025.
Afoa remained a lock for choice on the Warriors’ bench in a disappointing 2022 season.
Within the facet’s homecoming conflict with the Wests Tigers, he turned the 28th Warrior to succeed in 100 membership video games.
Fellow ahead Ale has been restricted to solely seven first-grade video games so far, partly as a result of damage, however began on the bench within the Warriors’ final 4 video games of 2022.
“Bunty and Tom are excellent examples of gamers who’ve come by way of our system and brought their alternatives,” new Warriors coach Andrew Webster mentioned.
“They display actual pleasure within the membership and all they do.”
