{"id":70236,"date":"2026-08-12T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/70236\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:31:13","slug":"broncos-sign-out-of-favour-storm-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/70236\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos sign out-of-favour Storm forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out-of-favour Melbourne second-rower Shawn Blore will join Brisbane as the Broncos hope to regroup following their disastrous NRL premiership defence.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old had been linked with a move to the 16th-placed reigning premiers before his two-year deal was announced on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has a hardworking approach to his football and we&#8217;re excited about what he can bring to the Broncos,&#8221; said Broncos general manager of football Troy Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>Blore is set to reunite with coach Michael Maguire, who handed the second-rower his NRL debut at Wests Tigers in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He subsequently joined the Storm as part of a swap deal for premiership winner Justin Olam, who was later forced into retirement by injury.<\/p>\n<p>Blore was an effective presence on Melbourne&#8217;s left edge on arrival in 2024 and played in two consecutive grand final losses with the club.<\/p>\n<p>But after injuries hampered him early in 2026, Blore fell out of favour and has managed only 10 NRL appearances for the Storm so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>He was consigned to NSW Cup in mid-July as Melbourne were fighting for their finals hopes and started at NRL level last week for the first time since May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we&#8217;re disappointed to see Shawn leave, we understand his decision and wish him, his partner and their family all the best with their move to Brisbane,&#8221; said Storm football boss Frank Ponissi.<\/p>\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Db7WlHmx1if\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">A post shared by Brisbane Broncos (@brisbanebroncos)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blore&#8217;s next move comes amid significant turnover at the Broncos, who farewell forward pack leader Payne Haas and captain Adam Reynolds at season&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>Gehamat Shibasaki, Grant Anderson and Jesse Arthars are among other first-graders leaving the club.<\/p>\n<p>With Brendan Piakura battling injuries throughout 2026, Brisbane&#8217;s lack of depth at second row has been exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Journeymen Jack Gosiewski and Jaiyden Hunt have both earned starting berths throughout the year, but Blore&#8217;s arrival bolsters the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Blore has played 91 NRL games and made two international appearances for Samoa in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Out-of-favour Melbourne second-rower Shawn Blore will join Brisbane as the Broncos hope to regroup following their disastrous NRL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99,637,1269,1406,33156,692],"class_list":["post-70236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-melbourne-storm","tag-nrl","tag-samoan-rugby-league-players","tag-shawn-blore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}