{"id":522652,"date":"2026-07-12T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/522652\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:38:10","slug":"rabbitohs-plan-to-make-a-play-for-dolphins-veteran-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/522652\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbitohs plan to make a play for Dolphins veteran half"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kodi Nikorima<\/a> remains unsigned for 2027, and there is one team in the NRL<\/a> that has expressed interest in the 32-year-old.<\/p>\n

The Daily Telegraph reports that Wayne Bennett<\/a> is intrigued by the prospect of coaching Nikorima once again.<\/p>\n

The legendary coach spent two years with the Dolphins<\/a> in the 2023 and 2024 seasons, where Kodi has played since the Dolphins’ inaugural season.<\/p>\n

In his two seasons coached by Bennett, the playmaker has since become one of Bennett’s favourites.<\/p>\n

Nikorima played for the Rabbitohs in 2022, the season when Bennett left the club to spend the year putting together the Dolphins<\/a> roster.<\/p>\n

With Cody Walker’s future at the club uncertain, signing Nikorima would give them a quality, experienced half they need.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins<\/a> signed George Williams<\/a> from the Super League<\/a>, leaving Nikorima without a contract.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Redcliffe-based club has\u00a0tabled a deal to keep Nikorima at the club.<\/p>\n

Kodi has played 235 games in his NRL<\/a> career, starting in 2015 with the Brisbane Broncos<\/a>, then joining the New Zealand Warriors<\/a> in 2019 for three seasons before his 12-month stint with the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

Nikorima has been in career form at Redcliffe, where he has become a mainstay in the side since he arrived in 2023.<\/p>\n

Playing for both Bennett and Kristian Woolf<\/a>, he hasn’t played fewer than 20 games in a season in his time at Redcliffe and is on pace to achieve it again.<\/p>\n

This also is not the first playmaker this season from another club that they have attempted to sign to the Rabbitohs for 2027.<\/p>\n

Wayne Bennett<\/a> was interested in Tanah Boyd<\/a> before he signed an extension with the New Zealand Warriors<\/a> and sustained an ACL injury.<\/p>\n

Talks between the Rabbitohs and Cody Walker<\/a> have remained at a ‘juncture’ according to DT, and Nikorima’s decision could be dependent on the Rabbitohs’ five-eighth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kodi Nikorima remains unsigned for 2027, and there is one team in the NRL that has expressed interest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-522652","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\/522652","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=522652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}