Young Rabbitohs duo Dean Hawkins and Keaon Koloamatangi have re-signed with the club until end of the 2021 season.
Hawkis has enjoyed a strong campaign for the Rabbitoihs' Canterbury Cup team in 2019, while Koloamatangi has been one of the Canterbury Cup's top performers over the last two seasons.
Rabbitohs GM of Football Shane Richardson was pleased to see the exciting pair recommit to South Sydney.
โWeโve been really impressed with the performances and the efforts of both Dean and Keaon and we see them having a future with us here at the Rabbitohs,โ Richardson toldย rabbioths.com.au.
โThey have both come through the Souths Juniors representative system with Keaon going on to represent his State.
โBoth players have shown they have a bright future and itโs wonderful to reward local juniors who show they have what it takes to make it in the top grade with NRL contracts.
โWeโre very happy to know that they will remain in the red and green for years to come.โ
Hawkins was excited to have his future sorted as he works towards cracking into the senior side soon.
โIโm really excited about the future here at Souths,โ Hawkins said.
โIt was one of my goals this year to earn a new contract and I concentrated on having a good pre-season which leads into the start of the season.
โIโve been rewarded with the new contract and Iโm looking forward to working with Wayne (Head Coach Wayne Bennett), JD (Assistant Coach Jason Demetriou) and Willie (Assistant Coach Willie Peters) to keep my progression moving forward.โ
Koloamatangi was also thrilled to sign an extension as he aspires to make his NRL debut.
โIโm really happy to have re-signed with Souths. Iโve been here since I started playing footy so itโs a dream come true to play in the jersey,โ Koloamatangi said.
โI want to keep working hard and work towards making my debut at this club.
โThe club has stuck by me as Iโve been coming through and I want to repay the faith theyโve put in me by performing well for South Sydney.โ
South Sydney had to upgrade them so they could field a side this week.
Second week in a row they’ve failed to be able to supply a full 21 man squad, if they didn’t re-sign and upgrade these two, they would have had to name an 18 man squad today.
That’s great souffffffffffffffffs sign up a couple of nobodies so you think you are developing your area.๐คฃ๐๐๐๐คฃ๐๐คฃ๐ and then blow it up to be a big story like you have just signed a superstar like Latrell Mitchell ๐ช๐๐๐คฃ๐๐คฃ๐๐๐๐คฃ ..
Talking about Latrell Mitchell here is a write up that confirms he will never pull on a green and red smelly old rabbit jumper…..
https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/05/28/the-real-reason-why-latrell-wont-end-up-at-souths/
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Have to agree with you there Phoenix.