Toby Sexton has not even played a single game for Catalans Dragons yet \u2013 but he has already secured a return to the NRL in 2027, it seems.<\/p>\n
Sexton is arguably the highest-profile arrival coming into Super League in 2026, having signed a one-year deal with the Dragons following a stint with Canterbury Bulldogs in the NRL. Lachlan Galvin\u2019s arrival at the Bulldogs mid-season pushed him down the pecking order, leading to him making the switch to France.<\/p>\n
However, Sexton is set to head back Down Under in 2027 after agreeing to become the latest player to sign for Perth Bears, according to reports Down Under.<\/p>\n
Sexton can officially speak to other clubs from Monday December 1, but Perth\u2019s recruitment boss, Dane Campbell, has already admitted he is a player the Bears are looking at closely.<\/p>\n
\u201cToby is a quality first grader. He is certainly a guy we will be looking at,\u201d he said. \u201cToby is a good person and good player and harbours an ambition to probably come back to the NRL at some point.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s plenty of talent out there and it\u2019s just a process. You can\u2019t just click your fingers and expect blokes to sign just because you send them a contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese things take time and we are comfortable with the progress we are making.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sexton will be the second Super League player to head to Perth in 2027 after the Bears landed the signing of Leeds Rhinos centre Harry Newman on a long-term deal.<\/p>\n
Sexton will sign a two-year deal in Perth, meaning his stay in France will ultimately be a short one as the Dragons look set to begin their hunt for a new number seven once again.<\/p>\n
He played 41 times for Canterbury before being dropped amidst a blaze of controversy after Galvin\u2019s signature mid-season at the club in the 2025 NRL season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toby Sexton has not even played a single game for Catalans Dragons yet \u2013 but he has already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-319193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}