{"id":350723,"date":"2025-12-16T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350723\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:41:10","slug":"warriors-and-rabbitohs-link-up-to-make-historic-partnership-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350723\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors and Rabbitohs link up to make historic partnership – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> and New Zealand Warriors<\/a> are set to make NRLW<\/a> history.<\/p>\n

Both clubs have entered a landmark NRLW<\/a> pathways partnership, beginning in the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

The agreement will provide a direct pathway for Rabbitohs-contracted players to progress into the NRLW<\/a> through the Warriors, while also allowing Warriors-contracted NRLW<\/a> players to gain valuable match experience in Australia<\/a> via South Sydney’s Harvey Norman NSW Women’s Premiership program.<\/p>\n

Under the partnership, Rabbitohs players will have the opportunity to train and trial with the Warriors ahead of the 2026 NRLW<\/a> season, while Warriors players not selected for weekly NRLW<\/a> fixtures will be eligible to play for South Sydney during the NSW Women’s Premiership season.<\/p>\n

Rabbitohs CEO Blake Solly said the partnership would significantly strengthen the club’s female pathways and improve recruitment and retention.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will help us with recruitment and retention as players contracted to South Sydney will have a clear pathway to the NRLW<\/a> through the partnership with the Warriors, something our players have not had in the past,\u201d Solly said.<\/p>\n

He added that the agreement aligned with the club’s broader commitment to women’s rugby league across all levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt some stage we will have our own NRLW<\/a> team, but until then it is important that every player in our system can see a pathway to the elite level.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KiaraKiara McGregor. (Photo: Rabbitohs Media)<\/p>\n

Warriors CEO Cameron George said the partnership would be mutually beneficial and provide a major boost to both clubs’ women’s programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a fantastic outcome for the Rabbitohs and for us, a huge boost for the women’s programmes at both clubs,\u201d George said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve been looking for ways to improve our women’s pathways and this is ideal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Warriors’ NRLW<\/a> head coach and football staff will also benefit from the arrangement, with players able to gain consistent high-level match exposure throughout the season.<\/p>\n

The 2026 NRLW<\/a> season is set to commence in July, with the Harvey Norman NSW Women’s Premiership running alongside the competition.<\/p>\n

The Tarsha Gale Cup<\/a> and Lisa Fiaola Cup<\/a> competitions will begin in February 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Sydney Rabbitohs and New Zealand Warriors are set to make NRLW history. Both clubs have entered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-350723","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\/350723","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=350723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}