{"id":79291,"date":"2021-06-01T23:17:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79291"},"modified":"2021-06-02T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T00:01:41","slug":"george-burgess-in-talks-with-rabbitohs-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79291","title":{"rendered":"George Burgess in talks with Rabbitohs&#039; rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Souths star <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/george-burgess\" title=\"George Burgess\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Burgess<\/a> is pushing for a return to the NRL at a non-Sydney based club.<\/p>\n<p>The premiership-winning prop is feeling healthy and confident of returning to the rigours of playing <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\" title=\"NRL\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NRL<\/a> after successful hip surgery, according to Nine&#x27;s Danny Weidler.<\/p>\n<p>A hip injury ended the 29-year-old&#x27;s stint with English club Wigan in 2020, after just eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Burgess&#x27; preference is to live outside of Sydney and his people have already held talks with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\" title=\"Dragons\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dragons<\/a>, Weidler reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1399843180183388161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danny_Weidler\/status\/1399843180183388161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;George Burgess is looking at an NRL comeback &#8211; not after big dollars,&quot; Weidler tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He feels incredible after hip surgery. Looking at living outside of Sydney. Hearing of an informal discussion with the Dragons.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>St George Illawarra have been stung by injury and suspension leading to six losses in the last seven weeks after flying out of the blocks in the opening month.<\/p>\n<p>Burgess last featured in the NRL in 2019 and played eight seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/south-sydney-rabbitohs\" title=\"Rabbitohs\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rabbitohs<\/a> alongside brothers Sam and Tom, winning the 2014 premiership.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year the forward revealed he&#x27;s battled the hip problem for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I had it my whole time at Souths, obviously it was managed a few different ways,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Over the years it got worse gradually. I thought going to Wigan I could get it right but it&#x27;s not been great.&quot;<\/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>\u00a0<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>Former Souths star George Burgess is pushing for a return to the NRL at a non-Sydney based club. The premiership-winning prop is feeling healthy and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79291\" title=\"George Burgess in talks with Rabbitohs&#039; rival\">[&#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\/79291"}],"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=79291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79292,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79291\/revisions\/79292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}