The NRL looks poised to announce Redcliffe Dolphins will become the competition's 17th team in 2023.<\/p>\n
Reports say the Australian Rugby League Commission has officially endorsed the Dolphins as the winning bid, ousting the Firehawks and Jets to become Queensland's fourth current team in the NRL.<\/p>\n
Channel Nine reporter Ben Dobbin tweeted the news, saying an "official announcement (will be made) in the coming days".<\/p>\n
LIVE UPDATES:<\/strong> Giants youngster's secret text to rivals before trade request<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyMateDobbo\/status\/1447423879647948802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n Last week the ARLC addressed all 16 current clubs and notified them of the decision to officially expand the competition.<\/p>\n On Friday, an expansion committee met to run the rule over all three bidders, with the Dolphins reportedly picked as the most attractive.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Deontay Wilder broke his hand during KO loss to Tyson Fury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Daniel Ricciardo struggles in Turkish Grand Prix<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n When the announcement is made the Dolphins will need to begin planning to enter the NRL in 2023 – effectively in 12 months' time which is when their first pre-season will kick off.<\/p>\n They'll need a full senior squad of 30 players, as well as a coach and staff.<\/p>\n Supercoach Wayne Bennett is heavily tipped to be head coach of the expansion team<\/a>, having finished his South Sydney tenure with last week's grand final loss and now being effectively unemployed.<\/p>\n 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> clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NRL looks poised to announce Redcliffe Dolphins will become the competition's 17th team in 2023. Reports say the Australian Rugby League Commission has officially […]<\/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\/142486"}],"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=142486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142490,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142486\/revisions\/142490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}