We may be deep into an off-season that feels as though it will never end, but rugby league never sleeps.
North Queensland Cowboys fans, having just endured a horror 2025 season, have been dealt a huge blow in the past 24 hours.
QLD, Kangaroos and Samoan star Murray Taulagi's time at the club looks as though it is set to end at the completion of the 2026 season.
Reports indicate the player and club look set for a split as the Cowboys look to use his salary elsewhere.
I doubt he'll be without a club for very long. In fact compiling this list was one of the easiest I've ever seen.
Here are six potential landing spots for Murray Taulagi:
2. Sydney Roosters
Mark Nawaqanitawase's short, albeit brilliant, stint in rugby league draws to a close at the conclusion of the 2025 season.
Murray Taulagi's time with the Cowboys seems to be drawing to a close at the very same time.
That surely lined up well for the tri-colours. They need a quality winger. Murray Taulagi is a quality winger.
The Roosters have been forced into a roster overhaul over the past 24 months and a player of Tualagi's pedigree will excite fans in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Opposition defenders can breathe easy knowing Nawaqanitawase won't be contesting Sam Walker bombs for the next give years.
Murray Taulagi might be contesting Sam Walker bombs for the next five years though!
What we see here is the failure of the NRL to devise and implement a workable transfer system. The clubs you have identified, Dan, want a winger _today_ not in twelve months’ time.
With no defined mechanism in place for transferring players, any transfer must be ad-hoc. Too hard for most clubs to invent, each time they want to see if they can pick up a player who is currently contracted.