The Sydney Roosters person reportedly told rising prima prop Terrell May that he’s escaped to find different nine contempt being contracted until the extremity of the 2026 season.
Despite signing a declaration hold successful aboriginal 2024 for an further two-year woody worthy a reported $950,000, the Roosters person deemed the hulking guardant surplus to their needs going forward.
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The 25-year-old May hasn’t adjacent started the hold portion of his woody but the Sydney Morning Herald has reported sources with cognition of the concern revealed said “the Roosters consciousness May doesn’t acceptable the absorption successful which the nine is heading”.
May, who is the member of arguable erstwhile NRL players Tyrone, 28, and Taylan, 23, is presently representing Samoa successful a two-Test bid against England successful the UK.
But the study states that May not instrumentality to Roosters pre-season training, having told his Samoan teammates helium could beryllium leaving the club.
There are respective players connected the hunt for props including the Tigers, Dragons and Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs were antecedently attempting to reunite each 3 brothers but pulled their connection aft an contented with May’s management.
Taylan May was a erstwhile Penrith Panthers prima but discontinue the nine arsenic helium awaited a tribunal day successful March 2025 over allegations he assaulted his woman and aboriginal contravened an AVO, allegations helium has pleaded not blameworthy to and reportedly intends to combat successful court.
The Panthers had tried to sack May but mislaid a Federal Court conflict with the nine reportedly negotiating a confidential colony to portion ways.
Tyrone May’s contract was torn up aft a bid of scandals, including pleading blameworthy to 4 counts of intentionally signaling an intimate representation without consent successful November 2019.
However, helium was only fired aft the Panthers’ 2021 premiership triumph after a societal media station that appeared to allude to the scandal.
Tyrone present plays for the Hull Kingston Rovers successful the UK’s Super League.
Terrell was besides embroiled successful immoderate off-field controversies this season, getting slammed for a societal media station aft teammate Joseph Sua’ali’i became conscionable the sixth — and easy the fastest — nonstop disconnected successful State of Origin past aft laying retired Broncos fullback Reece Walsh successful a brutal deed conscionable 7 minutes into the opening lucifer of the State of Origin series.
While Sua’ali’i apologised, May responded “HIS [sic] DEAD”, which plenty of fans deed backmost at.
In September, May admitted to the SMH he had fixed footy distant doubly earlier successful his vocation — astatine 18 and 20 — due to the fact that “I conscionable didn’t privation to play immoderate more.
“I get similar that passim the twelvemonth arsenic well,” May added.
“Sometimes I conscionable get ‘I don’t wanna beryllium determination and don’t wanna play’.
“It’s a weird feeling. I don’t deliberation galore radical acquisition it wherever 1 week they emotion the crippled and spell connected the TV screens and the adjacent week they don’t privation to beryllium determination astatine all.”
But May had a superb play successful 2024, with Phil Gould adjacent declaring him a smokey for the Blues backmost successful March.
In 27 appearances, 19 of which helium came disconnected the bench, May scored six tries, ran for 2994m astatine an mean of 110m per crippled which included 64 tackle breaks and 1087 post-contact metres — the 4th astir successful the Roosters’ team.
On apical of that, helium had 40 offloads and averaged 27 tackles per game.
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