{"id":126536,"date":"2021-09-10T02:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T02:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=126536"},"modified":"2021-09-10T04:57:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T04:57:15","slug":"bulldogs-sign-sonny-bill-williams-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=126536","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs sign Sonny Bill Williams&#039; cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulldogs have signed the cousin of the great <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/sonny-bill-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sonny Bill Williams\">Sonny Bill Williams<\/a>, Phillip Makatoa, on a train and trial contract.<\/p>\n<p>Makatoa &#8211; a giant prop who can poke his way through the defensive line &#8211; has been given a six-week contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old has been on the fringe of NRL selection for several seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Makatoa began his career with the Warriors and has spent time with both the Roosters and Manly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/evander-holyfield-vitor-belfort-boxing-world-concerned-for-fight-veteran\/f5495763-8fe2-4ebd-a2ab-97fccbc0d5d3\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>Fight world concerned for Evander Holyfield&#x27;s welfare after &#x27;uncomfortable&#x27; training clip<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"0c8c47a8-ffad-49b6-8a78-91dd0d522ab8\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0c8c47a8-ffad-49b6-8a78-91dd0d522ab8\" alt=\"Sonny Bill Williams made his name at the Bulldogs. (Getty)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He spent the past two seasons with Manly&#x27;s feeder club Blacktown Workers in the NSW Cup, where he made a big impression.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs have spent big money on their backline for 2022 but have done little in forward recruitment apart from former Dragon Paul Vaughan and ex-Bronco Tevita Pangai Junior.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We will give him a run and see how he goes,&quot; Bulldogs boss Phil Gould told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulldogsKennel\/status\/1435852303500660738\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulldogsKennel\/status\/1435852303500660738<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Bulldogs have signed the cousin of the great Sonny Bill Williams, Phillip Makatoa, on a train and trial contract. Makatoa &#8211; a giant prop <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=126536\" title=\"Bulldogs sign Sonny Bill Williams&#039; cousin\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126538,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126536\/revisions\/126538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}