{"id":926559,"date":"2026-10-13T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926559\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:24:16","slug":"finally-official-george-williams-to-make-nrl-return-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926559\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally official: George Williams to make NRL return in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dolphins<\/a> have confirmed one of the NRL’s worst-kept secrets, with George Williams<\/a> to officially join the club for 2027 and 2028.<\/p>\n

Williams was first linked to the Raiders way back in the early parts of 2026, and even released by his current Super League<\/a> club, Warrington, in the middle of the year.<\/p>\n

Despite that, confirmation was still lacking from the Dolphins<\/a> until Tuesday evening, when Williams, is here for the World Cup, was locked in for the next two years.<\/p>\n

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He will be the walk-up replacement for Kodi Nikorima<\/a>, who joins the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> this off-season, in a halves combination alongside Isaiya Katoa<\/a> for Kristian Woolf’s side in 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge is one of the most accomplished halves in the game and to have someone of his experience and leadership joining the Dolphins<\/a> is a huge boost for our squad,\u201d Dolphins<\/a> CEO Terry Reader said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has performed at the highest level in both the NRL<\/a> and Super League<\/a> and has proven himself as a leader on the international stage with England<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge brings a strong kicking game, competitiveness and a wealth of experience that will complement the players we already have within our spine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re really excited about the opportunity to bring George to the Dolphins<\/a> and to see what he can add alongside Isaiya, Brad and the rest of our squad from 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams brings enormous experience to the Dolphins<\/a> with 330 first grade games under his belt.<\/p>\n

His career started at Wigan back in 2013, where he played 179 games before moving to the Canebrra Raiders for a one and a half year stint. He has been at Warrington ever since.<\/p>\n

Williams was noted for his excellent play during his first stint in the NRL<\/a>, and has been critical for Warrington ever since even owing to an injury that ruled him out for a sizeable chunk of this year, but the Dolphins<\/a> and an ever quickening pace of NRL<\/a> will present a new challenge.<\/p>\n

Williams and Katoa will be backed up at the Dolphins<\/a> in the halves by Brad Schneider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dolphins have confirmed one of the NRL’s worst-kept secrets, with George Williams to officially join the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-926559","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\/926559","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=926559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}