Curran's Affair: The crazy story of a Soldier and his long lost car

A forgotten victim of the Warriors’ two-and-a-half year stay in Australia was the 2005 Nissan Tiida.

Second rower Josh Curran didn’t think twice before parking his car outside the club offices at Mt Smart Stadium in March 2020, thinking the team would only be in Australia for about a month before returning to Auckland.

wishful thinking.

The 23-year-old driver finally returned to his car late last month and found it parked exactly as he left it, although it looked a little uglier to wear.

“There’s actually mold growing around the wheel,” Curran told NRL.com.

The car is dead. Flat tire, low battery.

Josh Curran

“I need to get someone to come out and fix it, because it’s definitely not moving.

“But I’ll be worried about it when I get back to New Zealand.”

Curran scores a quick try

As the weeks turned to months through the pandemic, and it became clear that the Warriors would not be returning home any time soon, the Auckland-based club’s staff began speculating about the car.

Was it discarded by members of the public? Does someone live in it?

Warriors executive assistant and corporate project manager Jayne Hoffman recalls finding various personal items in the vehicle when he took a closer look.

“We asked for it to be pulled, but saw that there were clothes, blankets and even NRL accreditation locked inside,” Hoffman said.

“We have cases of personal belongings being left behind after troops departed for Australia but it seems odd that someone would leave their car for that long, without telling anyone or leaving the keys to turn on occasionally.”

The emotional return of Mt Smart

Turns out Curran had filled the car with his mundane belongings before parking it, having just moved out of the house he shared with teammates Karl Lawton and Jack Murchie at the time.

“I cleaned it when I came back to see what was in there, there was a bit of everything, I even still had the TV in there,” Curran said.

“I’m trying to sell TV, there’s a lot of stuff there. I just threw everything in there because we had two days to pack up our house before we left.”

Fortunately for Curran, his achievements on the field in recent times have ensured his lasting legacy at the Warriors will not be that of a dilapidated Nissan.

Having featured in just five games in his first two years with the Warriors, the Sydney-born forward has been one of the club’s most consistent players over the past two seasons, with his ability to move fluidly between the edge and center of the pitch. very valuable.

Curran risked his body to save the experiment

Warriors general manager of football Craig Hodges said that as Curran’s form was, the three-time All Star Custom shouldn’t be far from featured in New South Wales coach Brad Fittler’s plans for Origin next year.

“Josh certainly has to enter into representative calculations to move forward,” Hodges told NRL.com.

“He’s improved a lot over the last 12 months and I still think he’s only scratching the surface.

“I think he still has a lot more in him and that will come out over the next period of time.”

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