{"id":263976,"date":"2023-01-16T01:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T02:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=263976"},"modified":"2023-01-16T21:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T21:01:06","slug":"souths-turn-to-burgess-to-recruit-rising-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=263976","title":{"rendered":"Souths turn to Burgess to recruit rising star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffSouth Sydney are eyeing a player that could give their backline some much-needed firepower, with Newcastle winger Dom Young being courted for a move to Redfern.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nine&#x27;s Danny Weidler, Bunnies legend Sam Burgess has been \ufeffon the recruitment drive for his former club, selling a life under Jason Demetriou to the England international.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1614783026122362881\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1614783026122362881<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Rabbitohs are well stocked in most areas of the field, and recently locked up three of their key players for the foreseeable future, with <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2022-damien-cook-extends-deal-with-south-sydney-rabbitohs\/a499f057-a294-4b1f-9be4-ea952b444e15\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Damien Cook&#x27;s re-signing\">Damien Cook&#x27;s re-signing<\/a> followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2022-south-sydney-rabbitohs-extend-latrell-mitchell-cody-walker-contracts\/9ffeeb0a-a4aa-48e0-b2b3-b8fc1edd865f\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Cody Walker and Latrell Mitchell a week later\">Cody Walker and Latrell Mitchell a week later<\/a>.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW LIVE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-2023-live-results-day-one-rafael-nadal-daniil-medvedev-stefanos-tsitsipas-matches-nick-kyrgios\/a037bb05-8952-4b4a-b142-af466bc1cbef\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Australian Open 2023 day one\ufeff\"><strong>Australian Open 2023 day one\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/john-mcenroe-documentary-wimbledon-1981-you-cannot-be-serious-umpire-video\/40ff7912-c6c0-4ba1-873f-c62f51fc5941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;Crazed&#x27;: Doco uncovers McEnroe&#x27;s shame<\/strong><\/a><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-2023-dylan-alcott-career-first-meeting-with-roger-federer-story-wheelchair-tennis-exclusive\/51450cff-6f50-4a87-936f-6e46270cda3d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Alcott&#x27;s hilarious first meeting with tennis &#x27;king&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But there is a glaring hole on the opposite wing to try-scoring freak Alex Johnston; Jaxson Paulo and Josh Mansour have left the club, Taane Milne will begin the season with a massive suspension, leaving Izaac Thompson, who played just two games in 2022, as the club&#x27;s likely starter.<\/p>\n<p>Young is off-contract with Newcastle at the end of this season, although the Knights have publicly said that they are hopeful he&#x27;ll stay put.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"5e0d62ad-0fcf-49cb-8acc-45722cd99ce5\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5e0d62ad-0fcf-49cb-8acc-45722cd99ce5\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\ufeffYoung&#x27;s manager, Michael Cincotta, told the Newcastle Herald last week that there was a big chance of the winger staying put, but that he&#x27;d have to weigh up all possible scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s got a good relationship there, so there&#x27;s no reason to leave,&quot; Cincotta said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s got a lot of his friends there and has obviously settled in really well and come off a good year.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There&#x27;s every chance that he stays, but I&#x27;m just going through the process of making sure we look at all options while we can.&quot;\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\ufeffSouth Sydney are eyeing a player that could give their backline some much-needed firepower, with Newcastle winger Dom Young being courted for a move to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=263976\" title=\"Souths turn to Burgess to recruit rising star\">[&#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\/263976"}],"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=263976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263978,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263976\/revisions\/263978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}