South Sydney Rabbitohs bring in Tom Burgess’ ‘successor’ as Super League move potentially heats up

SOUTH SYDNEY RABBITOHS have brought in Tom Burgess’ successor as a potential move to Super League heats up.

Burgess has been linked with a move to Super League for the past two seasons with the recent Rugby League World Cup doing a lot to increase that speculation.

Now the Rabbitohs have found the next Burgess according to The Mole at the Wide World of Sports in the shape of Jason Hallie, who “has been playing against grown men in the Cairns A-Grade competition for the past two seasons and is rated among the best young front-rowers in the sunshine state,” The Mole has written.

A man monster standing at 110kg at just 19, Sydney clubs had been in for Hallie when the prop scored four tries in one game in the Mal Meninga Cup for Cairns earlier this year.

Burgess is now 31 and heading towards the twilight of his rugby league career whilst Hallie is just starting out, 12 years younger.

if Souths can fit both Hallie and Burgess in their thinking in the near future.

Former Rabbitohs, Australian legend Paul Sait dies aged 76

Two-time South Sydney Rabbitohs premiership-winner and Australian Kangaroos representative Paul Sait has passed away aged 76 after a long battle with illness.

Sait, regarded as one of the Rabbitohs’ best, was named at centre in the club’s Dream Team that was named in 2004, and was a life member of the Rabbitohs, having been awarded that honour in 1991. Sait captained South Sydney in 1977 and 1978.

The Rabbitohs’ great played in 165 top-grade fixtures for the Rabbitohs after progressing through the club’s pathways, playing in three straight grand finals between 1969 and 1971, which the Rabbitohs won two of, with Sait starting at centre in both.

While he was a centre in his early career, Sait turned himself into a second-rower and lock forward by the time his career came to an end.

He went on to retire from South Sydney at the end of 1978, but not before he had played 16 Tests for Australia, including being part of the 1970 and 1972 World Cups, the 1973 tour of Great Britain and 1975 World Series while he also made six appearances for New South Wales in the interstate series.

He would go on to coach with South Sydney through the 1980s, and current club CEO Blake Solley labelled his contribution equal to some of the legends of the club.

“Paul is renowned as one of the great South Sydney men of the club’s third golden era, his contribution the equal of the likes of Sattler, McCarthy, Coote and Simms,” Solly said in a club statement.