{"id":210931,"date":"2026-01-01T02:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210931\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:41:11","slug":"four-club-nrl-outside-back-makes-career-call-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210931\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-club NRL outside back makes career call – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

NRL<\/a> journeyman Corey Allan<\/a> has confirmed he has retired from rugby league.<\/p>\n

Just 27 years of age, Allan, who played a single game for Queensland in 2020 and also represented the Prime Minister’s XIII two years before that, has bounced around clubs since debuting in 2019.<\/p>\n

Playing 29 games for the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> in a two-year window, he moved to the Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> in 2021 and managed another 21 games.<\/p>\n

A single-season stint at the Roosters in 2023 saw him play 12 games for Trent Robinson’s side, before an ACL injury on his first day of pre-season training at the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> destroyed his 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Dragons elected to re-sign him for 2025 where he managed another 12 games, taking his career tally to 74, but with no contract in Australia<\/a> on the table, and the outside back not being sold on a move overseas, he has elected to retire, taking to his Instagram account to make the announcement official.<\/p>\n

“As the year is about to end, what better time to announce that I’ve decided to finish playing professionally, the opportunity to head overseas was alluring but I didn’t want to do anything I wasn’t 100% in for, so I’m content with my decision,” he wrote on New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n

“I’m so grateful to have been able to live out my dream and till this day I have nothing but gratitude and happiness when I look back at what was.<\/p>\n

“I can’t thank you enough whether I came through your system or played for your club, the values and lessons I’ve received from all of you has shaped me into who I am today.<\/p>\n

“I can’t wait to see what life has in store for me.”<\/p>\n

Allan was one of 12 players to depart the Dragons at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NRL journeyman Corey Allan has confirmed he has retired from rugby league. Just 27 years of age, Allan,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-210931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}