Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a great story and it\u2019s funny how it works sometimes,\u201d Humphreys added.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was obviously a Dragons junior and things probably didn\u2019t end there the way he wanted them to and his first game back in the NRL with us is hopefully gonna be against the Dragons. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems as though Wayne has these things planned months in advance somehow. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m stoked for him and I think the team appreciates what he does and his story and how hard he\u2019s had to work to get back here.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably couldn\u2019t get a closer replacement to Jye than Dufty at the moment. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re really similar in the way they play, so much energy and they\u2019ll take those tough carries and make the metres that we need.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has a flow-on effect to the edge, that can stay the same and we can continue to build those combinations, which is so important.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not only will playing against the Dragons be extra motivation for Dufty but it also allows him to potentially cement a spot in the line-up and press his case for the Perth Bears and PNG Chiefs, who will enter the NRL over the next two years.<\/p>\n
Unsigned for the 2027 season, the match on Saturday could very well decide his long-term future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Sydney Rabbitohs teammates have backed Matt Dufty to succeed on Saturday afternoon as the fullback prepares to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-614171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614171","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=614171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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