Code Sports.<\/a><\/p>\nSince joining the Titans in 2023, Verrills has played 69 games for the Gold Coast club, having made the move from the Roosters.<\/p>\n
Verrills is one of five players that will depart the Gold Coast club, alongside Jolliffe, Tuki Simpkins, Allan Fitzgibbon and Phillip Sami.<\/p>\n
Jolliffe signed a three-year deal with the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League, having suffered an ACL injury in January which saw him sit out of the club\u2019s 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n
Damien Cook reflects on final NRL game | 01:25<\/p>\n
WALKER OPENS UP ON HIS FUTURE – via Martin Gabor, Newswire<\/p>\n
South Sydney veteran Cody Walker has given the strongest indication that he wants to play on in 2027, but he insists contract negotiations are the furthest thing from his mind at the moment as he prepares to return to the finals next week.<\/p>\n
Walker will be 37 in January but is showing no signs of slowing down, with the classy five-eighth setting up 35 tries this season, two shy of his career-best 37 in 2021 when he led the Rabbitohs to the grand final.<\/p>\n
The club announced last September that he\u2019d signed a one-year extension, and Walker hopes the parties can agree on something similar in the coming months.<\/p>\n
The Rabbitohs have some big calls to make with several stars set to become free agents. Picture: Jeremy Ng\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Souths have a number of big decisions to make with Latrell Mitchell, Tallis Duncan, Brandon Smith and Campbell Graham just some of the stars off-contract at the end of 2027. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want to go around again and I\u2019d love to sort that out, but it\u2019s probably the furthest thing from my mind at the moment,\u201d Walker said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI had a massive focus and goal on doing everything I possibly could leading into the pre-season last year to get my body right, to handle a full season of NRL, and to help myself, my teammates, and our club get into the finals series. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s always been my focus, and we\u2019ve achieved that. But it means absolutely nothing without putting all of our focus in and having a good run into September and hopefully onto that long weekend in October. <\/p>\n
\u201cAll of that contract stuff for next year will sort itself out in the background. Over the last couple of years when I\u2019ve come off contract, I\u2019ve always left it to the back end of the year without rushing into any decision. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo whenever the club wants to sit down with my management and talk, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll work out when the time is right. But I\u2019m happy to play on again, I\u2019d love to play on again. We\u2019ll just see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cody Walker is in fantastic form after injuries ruined his 2025 campaign. Picture: Chris Hyde\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Walker only played 11 games in 2025 as he battled a series of soft tissue injuries, but his health hasn\u2019t been a concern this year as his body reaps the benefits of a later start to life in the NRL.<\/p>\n
The playmaking genius didn\u2019t make his debut until he was 26 which is incredibly rare these days when emerging stars are thrust into first grade as teenagers. <\/p>\n
\u201cI came into the first-grade system quite late. I\u2019d already been around the traps a little bit through the reserve grade system,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of these young kids come in at 18 and they have shoulder injuries and things, which is quite hard to come back from when you\u2019re quite young. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s worked in my favour throughout my career and my journey, so we\u2019ll see what happens. I\u2019m sure the club and my management will go down that path when they think the time\u2019s right and we\u2019ll sort something out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Rabbitohs have indicated that they want to keep him, and Walker says those close to him will work hard to get a deal done. <\/p>\n
It would be in their best interests to keep him given they need experience in the halves to partner Ashton Ward who gets to work with an all-star forward pack featuring Payne Haas, Cam Murray and David Fifita next year. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou leave it to your management company, they sit down and deal with all that stuff,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m comfortable with where my footy is at the moment. All my focus and energy is into doing everything I can to have a deep run into September footy and see how far we can go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The partner of outgoing Titans gun Sam Verrills has taken a swipe at the Gold Coast club in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-591829","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\/591829","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=591829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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