England World Cup star eyes shock NRL move

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England World Cup guardant Joe Batchelor is the latest Super League subordinate to pull the attraction of NRL clubs.

The St Helens back-rower is simply a precocious bloomer astatine 28, making his planetary debut successful the caller World Cup.

Sources person told Wide World of Sports that Batchelor has employed an Australian cause and is keen to springiness the NRL a spell successful 2024 and beyond.

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Batchelor starred for St Helens successful their 2022 Super League Grand Final triumph implicit Leeds and it was his efforts successful the finals that saw him elevated for his World Cup debut.

He is contracted to Saints until 2025 - but we each cognize contracts mean thing these days.

Bulldogs motion teen star

The Bulldogs are continuing their awesome build-up for 2023 and beyond, signing a promising back-rower from Ipswich.

Lynx Cliffe is lone 17 but Bulldogs officials, led by respected scout Dave Hamilton, spot thing successful him and helium has signed a two-year woody with an option.

Cliffe volition enactment successful Queensland for different 12 months, playing successful the Mal Meninga Cup for Easts Brisbane and making visits to Sydney to bid and premix with the large boys.

The youngster is inactive astatine schoolhouse astatine Ipswich Grammar and he's decidedly 1 for the small achromatic books.

Priceless past lost

A monolithic treasure trove of Illawarra Steelers memorabilia went up successful flames implicit the Christmas break.

Priceless documents, jerseys and different items were mislaid erstwhile the store of erstwhile Steelers main enforcement Bob Millward was burnt down successful Wollongong.

Millward was the Steelers' brag erstwhile they entered the large league mode backmost successful 1982 and is inactive progressive successful the associated venture.

He collected piles of memorabilia down the years but it is present conscionable ashes and rubble.

Local occurrence trucks were speedy to respond to the occurrence successful a artifact of units but were incapable to prevention Millward's store and its priceless cargo.

Eels pin hopes connected returning junior

The Eels realise they are a spot skinny for large forwards pursuing the departures of Isaiah Papali'i and Marata Niukore and perchance Nathan Brown.

As a result, they person precocious hopes for section inferior Toni Mataele, who has travel backmost 'home' aft a little stint astatine Newcastle.

Mataele has represented New South Wales close done the inferior grades and astatine 20, volition commencement adjacent play connected a improvement woody and volition beryllium promoted into the top-30 squad successful 2024.

But don't beryllium amazed if helium forces his mode into the apical tier wrong the coming twelvemonth - the kid is large and beardown and tin interruption the line.

He tin play successful the mediate oregon connected the edges and volition beryllium fixed his accidental to impressment successful the trials.

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