The latest injury setback to Kieran Foran is set to place Manly hooker Api Koroisau at the top of Canterbury's list for targets heading into 2020, reports The Daily Telegraph.
Koroisau has been allowed to freely negotiate with rival clubs while still having two years remaining on his current deal, as Manly look to prioritise emerging starlet and dummy half Manase Fainu.
The Bulldogs have emerged as suitors for Koroisau, as the 26-year-old continues to impress as one of the league's best dummy halves.
Koroisau has been named on the extended bench for this week, as he looks to return from an ankle syndesmosis injury.
Dean Pay has become fond of Koroisau's work with Manly and believes his experience will compliment the development of Jeremy Marshall-King, whilst also adding benefit to the pathways of youngsters Lachlan Lewis and Jack Cogger.
Canterbury have publicly expressed their interest in luring a big fish to the club, with Koroisau's name now headlining their list following his immediate availability.
Koroisau would find a seamless transition into the Bulldog's lineup, as the club are eager to add a catalyst that will assist their ongoing low-scoring struggles.
The Bulldogs are ranked last in the league with 228 points scored, comfortably behind the rest of the competition with Gold Coast the next worst having scored 296 points.
The clubs ongoing injury battles suffered another setback, with Foran sustaining a calf complaint that is believed to be related to his ongoing hamstring injury.
Canterbury have opened speculation that the club would welcome a move for Foran if a rival side expressed interest.
Although, with Foran's ongoing injury cloud and hefty contract, the Bulldogs may struggle to find a buyer.
Foran hasn't played more than 20 games in a season since 2014, but Pay has reassured that he is wanted at the club, understanding his capability when fit.
It will be sad to see Api leave, but I think he will be a great addition to the doggies.
I agree eagle, I was sad to see him leave Souths. I hope his future is bright.
The honorable thing to do would be to send him off with a premiership like you guys did, Chalky.
Really hope he doesn’t go to the Dogs. All he will end up doing there is losing games for the next 2/3 years. He should come to the Warriors. We will even swap you Issac Luke for him. Luke can play back up for Fainu and has lots of experience to offer him and other youngsters. Api can come to the Warriors and at least hopefully win a few games please
The lazy pitiful warriors have only won 2 more games than the dogs and will never win a premiership.
They were awful last night but I couldn’t help but think if Papalii didn’t miss 3 tackles on his own try line that could be 3 less tries. Luckily enough Tohu Harris is still to return so hopefully he comes back firing. Also between Ayshford and Beale they also let in 2 more tries, in total 5 on that edge. Once Harris, Fusitua and Herbert come back into the side I don’t think they will be letting in such easy tries.
Obviously can’t just blame it all on one thing or another the whole team needs to improve. RTS and his kick offs were terrible they landed about 15 off the try line which mean they start sets on about the 25/30 out. Blake Green was terrible kicking last night. Ah Mau and Paasi were just lazy in the middle and were giving away penalties and errors, same goes for Adam Blair. I thought Maumalo and Hiku were good, CHT tried his hardest and was alright. Sam Curran on his Warriors debut was impressive but that’s about it. Think they need to just put this one behind them and move on. They need to really improve on there D, particularly around the tuck and stopping quick ball and just basic 1 low 1 high tackling. They also need to work on kicking.
He has success at Penrith. Penrith should buy him back. With Koroisau & Kenny, Penrith would have solved the hooker situation.