NSWRL’s 2024 Jersey Flegg Cup Player of the Year Owen Pattie has inked a multi-year deal with the Canberra Raiders to stay in the nation’s capital until the end of 2028.
Part of the new deal announced today has the 21-year-old upgraded to the NRL top-30 squad for this season after he had been on the club’s development list.
He’s attracted attention already for 2025 scoring two tries in Canberra’s 22-16 NRL trial win over the Penrith Panthers on 8 February.
Pattie scored six tries in 13 Jersey Flegg games last year and three tries in his 12 appearances in The Knock-On Effect NSW Cup for the Raiders.
Canberra reached the Preliminary Final for both competitions but fell one game short of the Grand Final to eventual NSW Cup winners the Newtown Jets, and to Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the Under 21s.
Pattie told raiders.com.au he was excited about the opportunities ahead and eager to keep learning from the club's senior players and coaching staff.
“It’s very exciting,” he said.
“I never thought I’d have this opportunity at all in my career. For Canberra to give me the opportunity to come down here as a kid, as a 17-year-old, 18-year-old, and to be able to re-sign in such a short period of time, it means a lot.”
Elsewhere, the South Sydney Rabbitohs have extended 2023 NSW Cup premiership winner, Tyrone Munro, until the end of 2027.
Munro scored the match-winning try in the Rabbitohs’ 22-18 victory over the North Sydney Bears in September 2023 and then a hat-trick in the 42-22 NRL State Championship win over Brisbane Easts Tigers a week later.
Munro, 20, is a proud Gomeroi man and Botany Rams junior, who made his Indigenous All Stars debut last weekend at CommBank Stadium in Sydney. He has six tries in seven NRL games over the past two years.
Rabbitohs Head of Recruitment Mark Ellison told rabbitohs.com.au Munro had a big future ahead of him at South Sydney.
“He has everything we’re looking for in an outside back – he’s fast, courageous, his body is developing, and he loves playing for South Sydney,” he said.
