Shock contender for superstar forward emerges

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A daze caller contender has emerged for the services of David Fifita, with St George Illawarra poised to onslaught aft the November 1st deadline.

The Dragons person joined the contention for the superstar forward, portion they proceed to hold connected the aboriginal of Ben Hunt, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Fifita became the highest-paid guardant successful the league when helium signed a three-year woody successful the mediate of the 2020 season.

But though he's shown flashes of brilliance successful his clip connected the Gold Coast, the squad has struggled - limping into the finals with a 10-14 grounds past season, and astir collecting the woody spoon successful 2022.

Still lone 22-years-old, he's got plentifulness of footy up of him - but contempt his talent, already looms arsenic a cautionary communicative astir splashing large currency connected borderline forwards alternatively than middles oregon spine players.

The Dragons' erstwhile multi-million dollar raid into a Queensland nine resulted successful them snaring Ben Hunt from the Broncos successful 2018, and though the halfback has continued to play astatine a precocious level, different parts of their squad - astir notably the guardant battalion - haven't managed to lucifer the No.7's output.

The Dragons are choc-full of veterans successful their battalion close now, with a just chunk of their forwards for this play conscionable gone already the different broadside of 30; namely Aaron Woods, Andrew McCullough, George Burgess, Jack De Belin, Tariq Sims, and Josh McGuire.

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With respective of them volition beryllium moving connected adjacent season, the adjacent mates of seasons gives Saints a large accidental to inject immoderate much-needed younker into their guardant rotation, and Fifita would beryllium conscionable astir the highest prize they could travel distant with successful that regard.

The unsocial facet moving successful the Dragons' favour is that Fifita's partner, Shaylee Bent, is already plying her commercialized for the club's NRLW team.

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