Rabbitohs poach Latrell's teen star cousin from Knights

Souths person signed 1 of the brightest young centres successful rugby league - and helium conscionable happens to beryllium a relative of Rabbitohs superstar Latrell Mitchell.

Ethan Ferguson, aged 19, hails from Taree and represented the Australian Schoolboys past year.

The youngster is simply a Newcastle inferior and played successful the club's SG Ball squad past year.

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Newcastle were keen to support the strongly-built centre but the lure of playing with his illustrious relative proved excessively appealing.

Newcastle's Ethan Ferguson breaks a Manly tackle successful an nether 20s game. (NRL Images)Ethan Ferguson sizes up the antiaircraft enactment successful an nether 20s game. (NRL Images)

He has signed a two-year woody with the Rabbitohs for 2024-25.

The similarities betwixt Ferguson and Latrell are uncanny.

"They are some extracurricular backs, transportation the shot powerfully and footwear goals," a root adjacent to Ferguson said.

"It was a pugnacious determination for him due to the fact that helium was blessed astatine the Knights and they treated him well.

"But the thought of a caller situation and being person to Latrell and his member Shaq swayed him to marque the move."

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