Rugby league and the fer deadline day the sports world forgot
Mike Cooper in action for Wigan at Headingley.o, that was the rugby league transfer deadline day. Oh, you missed it? Never mind. If you forgot there was one, let alone that it was last Friday, in the words of St Etienne – the band, not Arthur Mourgue’s hometown – join our club. You are not alone.
In the NRL, some signings have been announced two seasons before a player moves. In one classic faux pas, Penrith’s magnificent Fijian second rower, Viliame Kikau, foolishly – or naively – posed in a Canterbury Bulldogs shirt last year, thinking the photo would not be seen until he joined the club in 2023. He was wrong. None of that feels right.after this season’s deadline, many clubs kept their powder dry.
Cooper could, however, prove to be one of the shrewdest signings of the window. Wigan have been challenging for the title admirably, despite having no one with vast Super League experience in their front row since the retirement of Tony Clubb last winter, a role Cooper can fill perfectly. Radford was apparently keen to put his former star full-back Jamie Shaul out of his misery and reunite at Cas, but it is Wakefield who have rescued him from Hull purgatory, Trinity blinking first in the relegation shootout. Willie Poching had already brought in veteran NRL winger Jorge Taufua and Hull forward Josh Bowden, allowing Tom Lineham to join Featherstone on loan. With Max Jowitt injured, the Dreadnoughts needed another full-back immediately, Shaul filling in until the end of the season.
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