{"id":594995,"date":"2026-04-09T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594995\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:38:09","slug":"get-out-clause-could-see-charlie-staines-return-to-nrl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594995\/","title":{"rendered":"Get-out clause could see Charlie Staines return to NRL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Perth Bears<\/a> are understood to have identified their next target, with Charlie Staines<\/a> on the radar for the NRL<\/a> expansion outfit.<\/p>\n

The Bears, as it stands, have 16 signings locked in for their inaugural season and a number more in the pipeline.<\/p>\n

Staines, though, could be next, with Wide World of Sports The Mole reporting he is a target of Mal Meninga<\/a> and his recruitment staff.<\/p>\n

Able to play anywhere in the back five, Staines played 39 games for the Penrith Panthers<\/a> between 2020 and 2022, before he had another 38 with the Wests Tigers<\/a> between 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n

PERTH BEARS SIGNING TRACKER<\/a><\/p>\n

After bursting onto the scene with four tries on his NRL<\/a> debut, he managed to score 39 across his 77 NRL<\/a> games and has had a healthy start to life in the south of France<\/a> with the Catalans Dragons<\/a>, scoring six in eight games.<\/p>\n

The outside back has a three-year deal with the English Super League<\/a> club, but it’s understood he has a get-out clause if he is approached for an NRL<\/a> return.<\/p>\n

That would allow him to become a foundation player at the Bears, where he could be signed to a multi-year deal.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear whether negotiations have commenced, or if they have, what stage they are up to, but it’s clear the Bears are still in need of plenty of new faces.<\/p>\n

As it stands, they have already signed former Bulldogs halfback Toby Sexton<\/a> from the Super League<\/a>, as well as non-Australian-born players Harry Newman<\/a>, Mikolaj Oledzki<\/a> and James McDonnell<\/a> from the competition.<\/p>\n

The club have Nick Meaney<\/a>, Sean Russell<\/a>, Luke Laulilii<\/a>, Chris Vea’ila<\/a>, Newman and even Siosifa Talakai<\/a> (although he is more likely to wind up in the forwards) in contention for spots in the back five currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perth Bears are understood to have identified their next target, with Charlie Staines on the radar for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-594995","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\/594995","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=594995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}