Champion Canberra centre Jack Wighton has been noticed assembly Dolphins supercoach Wayne Bennett in Queensland because the race for the most popular property on the NRL open market heats up.
Fox League can verify Wighton flew to Brisbane on Thursday because the Dolphins upped the ante for his providers by tabling a four-year deal to match the Canberra Raiders and South Sydney offers already on the desk.
Dolphins recruitment guru Peter O’Sullivan was additionally within the assembly with the NRL’s seventeenth staff outlining their four-year pitch to the Raiders star.
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Wighton will now journey to Sydney the place he’ll meet with South Sydney energy brokers on Friday to listen to the Rabbitohs view on why he ought to be part of the 1908 basis membership.
The newest improvement pits ex-Souths and now Dolphins coach Wayne Bennett in opposition to the membership he took to the 2021 grand ultimate within the race for Wighton’s signature.
The Bunnies stay assured they’ll persuade Wighton to hyperlink with Kangaroo World Cup teammates Latrell Mitchell, Cameron Murray and Campbell Graham for the 2023 season on a four-year deal.
Fox League’s Greg Alexander and Gorden Tallis each believed Souths had been nonetheless favourites to signal Wighton.
“I’m just going to speculate. I think he’ll go to Souths,” Alexander stated on Thursday’s Fox League pre-match protection.
“… I’m thinking that winning a competition will be more important to Jack than whatever else he’s thinking — money — and his relationship with Cody and Latrell might get him across the line.”
The Raiders have tabled the richest of all three offers value $4.4 million over 4 seasons. Canberra have the bye this weekend.
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Source: www.foxsports.com.au