Luke Laulilii will become the next Campbelltown junior to leave Wests Tigers, signing with forthcoming NRL franchise Perth for 2027.<\/p>\n
The outside back is the 13th signing announced by the NRL’s newest team, joining the likes of Toby Sexton, Tyran Wishart and Nick Meaney at Mal Meninga’s side.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old is the Bears’ youngest recruit to date and has signed a two-year deal.<\/p>\n
The Tigers had big raps on Laulilii, captain of their Harold Matthews side in 2023, but have now watched him become the latest highly-rated Campbelltown product to exit.<\/p>\n
Lachlan Galvin and Tallyn Da Silva, also from the region and rated stars of the future, left midway through 2025 amid intense media attention.<\/p>\n
Luke Laulilii of the Tigers scores a try\u00a0Jeremy Ng\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
The departures come as the Tigers prepare to lay stronger foundations in what is considered one of Sydney’s fastest-growing areas.<\/p>\n
The region’s talent pool is seen as key to the Tigers’ hopes of regenerating into a premiership force following more than 10 years out of the finals.<\/p>\n
The club opened an office in Campbelltown last year and is expected to increase the number of home games there in 2027 as Leichhardt Oval undergoes upgrades.<\/p>\n
Campbelltown Stadium will be refurbished in 2028 but host at least seven Tigers games the following season.<\/p>\n
Meninga lauded the arrival of Laulilii, who will remain at the Tigers in 2026.<\/p>\n
“Luke is a very talented and athletic outside back who will provide us plenty of options,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He is a fantastic finisher and strong defender. I’m sure he will continue to develop this season and look forward to welcoming him and his family over to WA.”<\/p>\n
Laulilii has played nine NRL games since making his first-grade debut in 2024.<\/p>\n
His brother, Kit Laulilii, remains contracted with the Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Laulilii will become the next Campbelltown junior to leave Wests Tigers, signing with forthcoming NRL franchise Perth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-416811","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\/416811","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=416811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}