{"id":927453,"date":"2026-10-14T05:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927453\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T05:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:08:13","slug":"sam-verrills-set-to-land-nrl-lifeline-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927453\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Verrills set to land NRL lifeline for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Departing Gold Coast Titans<\/a> dummy-half Sam Verrills<\/a> is set to remain in the NRL<\/a> for 2027, returning to his first club, the Sydney Roosters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Verrills departed the Titans at the end of 2026 after falling down the pecking order at Robina during the season.<\/p>\n

Starting the season as the undisputed first-choice hooker for new coach Josh Hannay<\/a>, the rake finished it behind Luke Sommerton<\/a> and Oliver Pascoe<\/a>, who will now share responsibilities moving forward.<\/p>\n

It was understood Verrills would head to England<\/a> to continue his career after his departure from the Titans became somewhat messy, with his partner placing a controversial post on social media suggesting there were other issues on the glitter strip.<\/p>\n

But instead of England<\/a>, where it was believed St Helens<\/a> were interested in his services, Verrills is set to return to the Sydney Roosters<\/a> on a cut-price deal for 2027, per News Corp.<\/p>\n

While the move is not yet done, it’s believed the Roosters are interested in his experience given Verrills was the starting dummy half back in 2019 when Jake Friend<\/a> missed the club’s 2019 grand final.<\/p>\n

Verrills has gone on to play 117 NRL<\/a> games, with the last 69 of those on the Gold Coast since his move to the outfit in 2023.<\/p>\n

There is no suggestion Verrills would be able to challenge for a starting spot in the NRL<\/a> given Reece Robson<\/a> is the incumbent at the Roosters and contracted for the next three years following his move back to Sydney from the North Queensland Cowboys<\/a> at the end of 2025, but a spot on the bench could be available.<\/p>\n

As it stands, the Roosters are losing Connor Watson<\/a> at the end of this year and have only Benaiah Ioelu<\/a> as the other option at number nine, with Jake Elliott moving to the North Queensland Cowboys<\/a>, as exclusively revealed by Zero Tackle last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Verrills could be a permanent member of Trent Robinson’s <\/a>six-man bench and a potential starter during the State of Origin<\/a> period if Robson is again selected ahead of Blayke Brailey<\/a> and Wayde Egan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Departing Gold Coast Titans dummy-half Sam Verrills is set to remain in the NRL for 2027, returning to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-927453","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\/927453","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=927453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}