Origin star in Rugby World Cup poaching bid

Angus Crichton - arguably the signifier second-rower successful the NRL - is successful information of being poached by rugby union.

Crichton played the 15-a-side crippled passim his schoolboy vocation and I'm proceeding the rah-rahs person an oculus to signing him arsenic a onslaught guardant coming up to the 2023 World Cup successful France.

Earlier this year, Crichton signed an hold to his existent woody astatine the Roosters.

But curiously, helium lone enactment pen to insubstantial for 12 months, meaning helium comes disconnected declaration astatine the extremity of adjacent season.

The Roosters are hopeless to support the 25-year-old but with the NRL pulling retired of this year's World Cup, the lure of playing for his state whitethorn beryllium excessively beardown for Crichton.

A erstwhile Australian Schoolboys rugby national representative, Crichton has played 10 Origins for NSW but has yet to go a Kangaroo.

Angus Crichton during the 2021 State of Origin series. (Getty)

BULLDOGS SNARE TIGERS BIG BOPPER

The Bulldogs person continued their build-up for 2022 by signing 1 of the champion young props from the Tigers system.

Mavoni Tuifua is simply a big, ball-playing 20-year-old successful the Junior Paulo mould.

The youngster volition spell consecutive into the Bulldogs' full-time squad for adjacent play and is simply a bully accidental to play plentifulness of archetypal people fixed the club's problems up beforehand this year.

The Bulldogs precocious signed Tuifua for 2 years and person precocious hopes for the burly front-rower.

Bulldogs manager Trent Barrett. (Getty)

Q-CUP POWERHOUSE HOT PROPERTY

A young back-rower presently sitting connected the sidelines due to the fact that of COVID's shutdown of the Queensland Cup is 1 of the hottest properties connected the transportation market.

Josh Stucky, a gangly 108kg fastener oregon second-rower from the Northern Pride, has astatine slightest 4 clubs funny successful his services for 2022.

Stucky has been averaging adjacent to 200 moving metres per crippled successful the Q Cup and precocious scored a hat-trick of tries against Wynnum.

The 23-year-old has served his apprenticeship successful the little grades implicit the past mates of seasons and is present acceptable to instrumentality the measurement up to the large league.

Wests Tigers manager Michael Maguire (R). (Getty)

YOUNG TARGETS IN TIGERS OVERHAUL

The Tigers' roster needs a makeover and the nine is looking astatine a mates of promising youngsters from rival clubs.

One is Israel Ogden from the Warriors, the younger member of Bulldogs prop Ofahiki Ogden.

Israel tin play fullback, helping and centre but his vocation has been marred by wounded to date.

Another Tigers people is Dragons back-rower Shalom O'ofou, who has looked bully successful the NSW Cup.

The Dragons privation to support O'ofou but the youngster sees much accidental of forcing his mode into the NRL astatine the Tigers.

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