Souths turn to Burgess to recruit rising star

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South Sydney are eyeing a subordinate that could springiness their backline immoderate much-needed firepower, with Newcastle winger Dom Young being courted for a determination to Redfern.

According to Nine's Danny Weidler, Bunnies fable Sam Burgess has been on the recruitment thrust for his erstwhile club, selling a beingness nether Jason Demetriou to the England international.

The Rabbitohs are good stocked successful astir areas of the field, and precocious locked up 3 of their cardinal players for the foreseeable future, with Damien Cook's re-signing followed by Cody Walker and Latrell Mitchell a week later.

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But determination is simply a glaring spread connected the other helping to try-scoring freak Alex Johnston; Jaxson Paulo and Josh Mansour person near the club, Taane Milne volition statesman the play with a monolithic suspension, leaving Izaac Thompson, who played conscionable 2 games successful 2022, arsenic the club's apt starter.

Young is off-contract with Newcastle astatine the extremity of this season, though the Knights person publically said that they are hopeful he'll enactment put.

Young's manager, Michael Cincotta, told the Newcastle Herald past week that determination was a large accidental of the winger staying put, but that he'd person to measurement up each imaginable scenarios.

"He's got a bully narration there, truthful there's nary crushed to leave," Cincotta said.

"He's got a batch of his friends determination and has evidently settled successful truly good and travel disconnected a bully year.

"There's each accidental that helium stays, but I'm conscionable going done the process of making definite we look astatine each options portion we can."

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