{"id":89036,"date":"2021-06-22T05:21:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89036"},"modified":"2021-06-22T07:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:57:23","slug":"warriors-eye-shock-mid-season-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89036","title":{"rendered":"Warriors eye shock mid-season coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Warriors are reportedly eager to sign departing Sharks halfback Chad Townsend <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/chad-townsend-contract-north-queensland-cowboys-price-new-deal\/cd6e89f3-d7bd-4e3a-8a2f-90fca4711b2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"before he makes his way north to the Cowboys next season.\">before he makes his way north to the Cowboys next season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The surprise move would see Townsend play out the remainder of the year with the Kiwi outfit <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/north-queensland-cowboys-swoop-on-chad-townsedn-reports\/5e30bef6-374f-4226-a967-f6c3fe53c517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"before he joins North Queensland on a three-year deal in 2022.\">before he joins North Queensland on a three-year deal in 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Townsend has been relegated to the Sharks&#x27; feeder sign the Newtown Jets in the NSW Cup the past two weeks, with coach Josh Hannay preferring Matt Moylan and Shaun Johnson as the club&#x27;s starting halves in first grade.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"8606dddb-ed5d-4f1f-afe2-df9f44f25a8e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/8606dddb-ed5d-4f1f-afe2-df9f44f25a8e\" alt=\"Chad Townsend. (Getty)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Warriors are currently without star half Chanel Harris-Tevita who is sidelined with a pectoral tear and see Townsend \u2013 a former Warrior \u2013 as the perfect stop-gap to partner Kodi Nikorima in the halves.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph reports, Warriors coach Nathan Brown has personally spoken to Townsend about the move.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, The Sharks are considering the approach with the Warriors offering to pay the remainder of Townsend&#x27;s salary of around $200,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Warriors are reportedly eager to sign departing Sharks halfback Chad Townsend before he makes his way north to the Cowboys next season. The surprise <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89036\" title=\"Warriors eye shock mid-season coup\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89038,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89036\/revisions\/89038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}