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Surprise Tom Burgess retirement suggestion made despite Leeds Rhinos admission

Tom Burgess has signed for Huddersfield Giants on a three-year deal from 2025.

Tom Burgess is the last of the Burgess brothers standing at South Sydney Rabbitohs.

And he will be staying at the club for the next few years after signing a new deal.

There had been suggestions that Tom could return home to England with Leeds Rhinos being a rumoured landing spot but the chatter lately has been that he will remain in Australia, and in particular with Souths.

This came after he said during the World Cup that he would like to play in Super League and spoke about previously being a Leeds Rhinos fan.

Thus, there was a suggestion that the prop would join the Rhinos at the end of his current contract or at least sample a taste of Super League with another club at the very end of his career.

This week, with the help of former Leeds Rhinos star Matt Adamson, the Rabbitohs have signed “the next Tom Burgess” in the shape of Jason Hallie,

“He has a long way to go, but the potential is undoubtedly there.

“He is on a pathways contract for the next two years and we will see where he goes from there,” Rabbitohs head of pathways Joe O’Callaghan told Wide World of Sports about Hallie.

O’Callaghan then went on to say that Burgess will retire at Souths and when he does Hallie will be waiting:

“Once Tom retires, we have no big body middles so he could prove very handy – but that is well down the track.”

This would mean no fairytale move to Leeds Rhinos.

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