{"id":318427,"date":"2023-07-24T01:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T01:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=318427"},"modified":"2023-07-24T04:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T04:00:27","slug":"rabbitohs-star-makes-shock-mid-season-club-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=318427","title":{"rendered":"Rabbitohs star makes shock mid-season club switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/south-sydney-rabbitohs\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"S\ufeffouth Sydney\">S\ufeffouth Sydney<\/a> star Liam Knight is leaving the burrow after signing with <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/canterbury-bulldogs\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Canterbury\">Canterbury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nine&#x27;s Danny Weidler broke the news on Twitter, revealing Knight farewelled his Rabbitohs teammates on Monday. Both clubs later confirmed the news.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Liam has an opportunity to play more consistent NRL-level\u00a0football at another club and we have agreed to release him so he can take up that opportunity,&quot; Rabbitohs head of football Mark Ellison said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/the-ashes-2023-australia-retains-urn-on-rainaffected-day-at-old-trafford-arguments-being-fired-at-ben-stokes\/8bf340d2-3264-4de7-96d9-44f0e50a2be6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Debate explodes as &#x27;smirking&#x27; Aussies retain Ashes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/swimming\/world-aquatics-championships-2023-ariarne-titmus-smashes-400m-world-record-beats-katie-ledecky-summer-mcintosh\/66abe49d-8b8d-4bda-8d18-77e05af84b2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Thorpe marvels after Titmus &#x27;obliterated&#x27; world&#x27;s best<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/formula-1-hungarian-grand-prix-2023-oscar-piastri-scores-points-daniel-ricciardo-13th-max-verstappen-wins\/a16e2844-ef5f-4260-8f52-280de5c4311a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Piastri shines in Hungary as Ricciardo makes comeback<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hulking middle forward played 66 games for the Bunnies over four years, after short stints at Manly and Canberra.<\/p>\n<p>His 2023 season started in round 10 after he was badly injured by a cannonball tackle last year\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1683280632930263040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1683280632930263040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><img data-id=\"c9c1c16f-5249-4d28-afee-a58b6575a421\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c9c1c16f-5249-4d28-afee-a58b6575a421\" alt=\"Liam Knight and Cameron Murray. (AAP)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He is one of the first mid-season signings but may not be the last.<\/p>\n<p>NRL clubs are allowed to trade and sign players up until August 3, which is the cut-off for any roster changes this season.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe Knight signing comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/bulldogs-give-captain-permission-to-leave-farah-eyes-gm-role-at-tigers-20230723-p5dqk5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"the Sydney Morning Herald revealed\">the Sydney Morning Herald revealed<\/a> the Bulldogs are willing to let club captain Raymond Faitala-Mariner and Ryan Sutton leave prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow forward Luke Thompson as well as halfback Kyle Flanagan have also been told they are free to leave Belmore.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs next year welcome State of Origin centre Stephen Crichton to the roster.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<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\/edm?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>S\ufeffouth Sydney star Liam Knight is leaving the burrow after signing with Canterbury. Nine&#x27;s Danny Weidler broke the news on Twitter, revealing Knight farewelled his <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=318427\" title=\"Rabbitohs star makes shock mid-season club switch\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318429,"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\/318427"}],"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=318427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318430,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318427\/revisions\/318430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}