{"id":422569,"date":"2026-01-19T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422569\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:36:10","slug":"the-mole-exclusive-matt-dufty-signs-with-south-sydney-rabbitohs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422569\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mole exclusive; Matt Dufty signs with South Sydney Rabbitohs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Dragons and Warrington fullback Matt Dufty<\/a> has made a shock return to Sydney – with the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old Dufty’s career looked to be over when he parted ways with Warrington recently, but the pint-sized fullback has come to terms on a second-tier contract with the Rabbitohs and started training with the club this week.<\/p>\n

“It’s a NSW Cup contract – not top 30 or development list,” Souths chief executive Blake Solly confirmed to Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

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A noted ball runner with the ability to produce long-distance tries, Dufty scored 44 times in 82 games for St George Illawarra<\/a>, but his defence was always a worry.<\/p>\n

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Matt Dufty.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

After playing first grade with the his junior club from 2017 to 2021, he moved to the Bulldogs<\/a> but played just 12 games for one try before being released mid-season.<\/p>\n

Dufty then moved overseas and joined Warrington and was again prolific, thrilling the crowds with his pace and energy, scoring 47 tries in 88 games with the Wolves<\/p>\n

The livewire also finished second in the Super League’s Man of Steel voting in 2024.<\/p>\n

Warrington – coached by Sam Burgess<\/a> – decided to cut him loose earlier this month with a year to run on his contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dragons and Warrington fullback Matt Dufty has made a shock return to Sydney – with the South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-422569","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\/422569","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=422569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}