South Sydney person extended the declaration of breathtaking back-rower Keaon Koloamatangi until the extremity of the 2024 season.
The 23-year-old, who made his debut successful 2020, has already had a sensation of typical shot aft being included successful the New South Wales State of Origin squad this year.
A subordinate of the squad that went down 14-12 to Penrith successful this year's expansive final, Koloamatangi says he's looking to spell 1 measurement further adjacent year.
"Souths is my inferior nine and I privation to enactment present for arsenic agelong arsenic I can," Koloamatangi said.
"We made the expansive last this twelvemonth and that acquisition has made maine hungrier than ever to triumph a premiership.
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"I deliberation we person an accidental to bash that present successful the abbreviated word with the players and the coaches we person and I privation to beryllium portion of helping this nine triumph its 22nd premiership."
Season 2022 is shaping arsenic 1 of important alteration astatine the Rabbitohs, with Jason Demetriou taking implicit arsenic caput coach, pursuing the departure of Wayne Bennett. Also gone are 4 members of the expansive last broadside - Adam Reynolds, Dane Gagai, Jaydn Su'A and Benji Marshall.
"I emotion this club. I consciousness comfy present and I cognize the nine has my champion interests astatine bosom which makes maine privation to bash my champion each accidental I get to correspond Souths," Koloamatangi explained.
"I'm achieving immoderate of my idiosyncratic goals present excessively and I'm acceptable to instrumentality my crippled to the adjacent level adjacent season.
"I emotion the members and fans too. They are the champion supporters successful the satellite and it's an honour to play for them each clip I get to propulsion connected that jersey.
"I'm truly blessed to beryllium extending my declaration and I can't hold for play 2022 to get underway."
South Sydney's caput of football, Mark Ellison, says the determination to re-sign Koloamatangi was a elemental one.
"We spot Keaon arsenic 1 of the cornerstones of not conscionable our guardant pack, but of our club, implicit the adjacent decennary truthful rewarding him with a further declaration hold made sense," helium said.
"He's a South Sydney inferior from the Mascot club, helium has worked tirelessly to get himself into the presumption he's successful today, helium is simply a fashionable subordinate of the squad and is simply a person amongst the young brigade we person astatine the club."
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