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Payne in the Haas for Rabbitohs as key spine star faces salary cap squeeze
The South Sydney Rabbitohs will welcome the game's best prop, Payne Haas, to the club in 2027, but it could cost them other players already at the club.
Haas, who will move from the Brisbane Broncos at the end of the current season on a seven-figure deal, has stretched South Sydney's salary cap to breaking point.
The Rabbitohs were already on thin ice in attempting to extend the contract of Keaon Koloamatangi, and while all that money went the way of Haas, they had to use extra to top up the Origin player's deal after he was attacked following Koloamatangi's signing with the Dragons.
EXCLUSIVE: Jordan Mailata tells the NRL to 'let them play' in piece of advice for cracking America
When the NRL moved its season opener to Las Vegas in 2024, ARL chairman Peter V'landys said the 13-man game was looking to expand the sport's audience in the US and tap into the country's growing legalised sports betting market.
Three years on, V'landys' gauge on what it takes to capture the attention of Americans has changed.
"It's going to take a lot longer than we thought it would," V'landys told The Sydney Morning Herald earlier this year.
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There is no doubt that the recent games in the US were well watched in Australia, with 2.1 million viewers taking in the action, an increase of 7 per cent on last year's event.
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‘That doesn’t happen’: NRL great says Dogs’ rumoured Xerri move ‘doesn’t add up’
Luke Keary has described Cameron Ciraldo’s comments on Bronson Xerri as “damning” while declaring something “doesn’t add up” after reports the Bulldogs already told him he would not be extended beyond 2027.
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Xerri was dropped from the Bulldogs’ NRL team ahead of their 14-10 win against Canberra on Thursday night, with Ciraldo admitting at a media opportunity earlier this week that “preparation” was one reason behind the decision to axe the centre.
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