\n The full-back was released from the final year of his contract at The Halliwell Jones Stadium earlier this month, bringing a three-and-a-half year stint in England to an end following a turbulent end to what turned out to be his last season with The Wire.\n<\/p>\n
\n And having returned to his homeland, Wide World of Sports are now reporting that the 30-year-old speedster has penned a deal to join South Sydney Rabbitohs.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, Souths chief executive Blake Solly is quoted as saying Dufty has not been signed with a place in their first-team in mind, and he instead will play in their reserve-grade side.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “It’s a NSW Cup contract – not top 30 or development list.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Having been dropped for disciplinary reasons before being briefly restored and then moved out of position to centre, Dufty saw his number one shirt handed to youngster Cai Taylor-Wray for 2026 with rivals clubs offered his services.\n<\/p>\n
\n With nobody having made a move, an agreement was reached to release Dufty early having scored 47 tries in 88 appearances in primrose and blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The full-back was released from the final year of his contract at The Halliwell Jones Stadium earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-379717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}