{"id":468959,"date":"2026-02-09T18:14:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468959\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:14:54","slug":"nrl-news-2026-brisbane-broncos-to-offer-five-year-deal-to-payne-haas-south-sydney-rabbitohs-contract-cooling-off-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468959\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Brisbane Broncos to offer five-year deal to Payne Haas; South Sydney Rabbitohs contract cooling-off period"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brisbane Broncos<\/a> will hit back against the Rabbitohs and offer Payne Haas a mammoth new contract in an effort to sway him not to leave, with the club hoping to move a mountain before the superstar’s Rabbitohs deal is official.<\/p>\n

Haas’ move to the Rabbitohs on a three-year deal was lodged on Sunday<\/a> setting in train a 10-day cooling off period which allows the Broncos to table a counter-offer in a bit to convince him to stay.<\/p>\n

9news Queensland’s Ben Dobbin reports that a five-year deal will be offered.<\/p>\n

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“It’s my understanding the Broncos, with this 10-day cooling off period, are about to table a five-year offer to Payne Haas to try and retain him,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"Payne<\/p>\n

Payne Haas (left) and Patrick Carrigan after the 2025 NRL grand final.\u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

Dobbin added that the five-year offer could include clauses that would allow him to pursue a code-switch to rugby union.<\/p>\n

Reports suggested prior to Haas signing with the Rabbitohs that the Broncos would offer a one-year deal to the prop. <\/p>\n

Prior to his contract decision, there was speculation that Haas was a target for R360. A clause in the Broncos’ offer could allow him to leave for the rebel rugby competition if it gets off the ground.<\/p>\n

R360’s launch was postponed late last year despite Zac Lomax leaving the Eels in an effort to trigger a massive deal with the rebel competition.<\/p>\n

Haas didn’t speak to media at the Broncos season launch<\/a> or at Brisbane airport when the Broncos jetted off to the United Kingdom for the World Club Challenge.<\/p>\n

At the season launch, Pat Carrigan was asked if he’d try to convince Haas to stay.<\/p>\n

“I’ll support him no matter what he does,” Carrigan replied.<\/p>\n

“But trust me: I love him running out in a Bronx jersey.”<\/p>\n

The retiring Adam Reynolds also said he’d try and “twist his arm”.<\/p>\n

One of the most recent backflip during a cooling-off period was David Fifita when he signed with the Roosters before deciding to stay at the Gold Coast Titans<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brisbane Broncos will hit back against the Rabbitohs and offer Payne Haas a mammoth new contract in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-468959","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\/468959","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=468959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}