BREAKING | Josh Reynolds Has Told Teammates He's Joining Rival Club

Fan favourite Josh Reynolds is set to leave Canterbury and join new coach Ivan Cleary's reshaping of NRL neighbours Wests Tigers.

Reynolds, off contract at the end of the year, is understood to have agreed on a four-year deal with the Tigers where he'll replace Parramatta-bound five-eighth Mitchell Moses.

The former NSW playmaker is believed to have informed Bulldogs players of his end-of-season departure before training on Wednesday morning.

His Tigers deal is reportedly worth close to a million dollars a year.

The news comes just hours after the Tigers announced they had signed New Zealand international prop Ben Matulino from the Warriors.

Cleary and Wests Tigers have been moving rapidly to fill the gaps with the club seemingly set to lose three of their "big four" off-contract stars - Moses, captain Aaron Woods, who is tipped to join the Bulldogs and fullback James Tedesco, believed to be headed to Sydney Roosters.

Reynolds is set to play alongside the other member of the four, young halfback Luke Brooks, who re-signed with the Tigers for a further two-years last week.

Matulino played under Cleary at the Warriors and said that experience played a big part in his decision to move from Auckland to the Sydney club.

Reynolds, into his seventh season at the Bulldogs, said last month the thought of leaving the Bulldogs made him feel sick in the stomach.

But Canterbury is under salary cap pressure given the expected arrivals of Woods and Kieran Foran, who is tipped to replace him at five-eighth.

"Honestly, it is hard for me to think that. It makes me a bit sick in the stomach," Reynolds said on March 31.

"I love the club (Canterbury), let's be honest. I was born there."

The Bulldogs' pursuit of Woods had put pressure on Aiden Tolman's place at the club, but the veteran prop said on Wednesday he was sure he would play out the final year of his contract next season.

Before news of Reynolds' exit broke, Tolman conceded it would be a blow for the club to lose the effervescent five-eighth.

"He's huge to our club. He basically epitomised what the Bulldogs are about. If he was to go, he'd be a huge loss," Tolman told reporters.

"But we would respect his decision either way. We'd obviously love to keep him here and whatever his decision is, we'd respect it.

"He's got to look after himself, his family and his football as well."

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