{"id":423550,"date":"2026-05-12T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423550\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:00:19","slug":"jamie-humphreys-set-to-leave-rabbitohs-join-nrl-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423550\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Humphreys set to leave Rabbitohs, join NRL rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> halfback Jamie Humphreys<\/a> is set to leave the club at the end of the year and become an inaugural member of the Perth Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The halfback has been in negotiations over his future for many months with the Rabbitohs.<\/p>\n

It was believed in the pre-season that an extension for the ex-Manly player was close to being worked out, but then kicked down the road by the signing of Payne Haas<\/a> from the start of next year.<\/p>\n

That dent in the salary cap for South Sydney, as well as the emergence of Ashton Ward<\/a>, saw things delayed, and Humphreys has explored his options elsewhere.<\/p>\n

He recently suggested his priority was remaining at the Rabbitohs, but speaking on The Continuous Call Team’s Offload Podcast, journalist Adrian Proszenko said a three-year deal was on the verge of being signed for Humphreys to head west, while the move for Jonathan Sua<\/a> was also close to done.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Perth Bears signing tracker<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’m hearing that Jamie Humphreys<\/a> is very, very close to agreeing to a three-year deal to go to Perth,” Proszenko said on the show.<\/p>\n

“A big body who could potentially play in the back-row, but my understanding is he has been signed as a half.<\/p>\n

“Jonathan Sua<\/a> is also close to signing.”<\/p>\n

The move for Humphreys is a big one for Perth, and potentially would take them out of the market for Warriors’ halfback Luke Metcalf<\/a> who has been given the green light to explore his options around the competition.<\/p>\n

The Bears have currently signed Tyran Wishart<\/a> and Toby Sexton<\/a> as their options in the halves, but Wishart may be required at number nine, with the club still having not signed a first-choice player for that position.<\/p>\n

Humphreys could play halfback, five-eighth, hooker or even in the forwards in a pinch, but his form at the Rabbitohs last year saw him become the surprise first-choice number seven before losing his spot to Ashton Ward<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Sydney Rabbitohs halfback Jamie Humphreys is set to leave the club at the end of the year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-423550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423550","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=423550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}