After being promoted to the Championship, Hunslet RLFC have signed Ryan Hall from Hull KR, albeit a different Ryan Hall than the one who we know as Super League’s leading try-scorer.
As such, there is no need for Leeds Rhinos fans to worry. The Hall who has joined Rhinos’ Betfred Championship neighbours is a teenage back-rower with experience in the Robins’ academy and reserves sides.
Despite being his namesake, he is no relation to the former England winger of the same name who moved from Hull KR to Leeds earlier in the off-season.
A former West Hull junior, Hunslet’s latest recruit is yet to make his senior debut but could break through next season, according to the Parksiders’ coach Dean Muir.
He said: “While I see Ryan as an excellent long-term prospect, he will have every opportunity to put a marker down for the first team in 2025 along with the rest of the squad and I’m sure he’ll grasp that with both hands.”
Muir, who has taken charge of the club ahead of the 2024 campaign, has recently spoken on the club’s social media accounts about how their pre-season is going after securing promotion to the Championship.
He explained: “I’m really happy, this week will be a bit of a moving week for players – those who really want to push for a starting spot will be really attacking it.
“We’ve asked them to be competitive. We’ve got lads going at each other in training and we’re raising standards. We’re getting fitter all the time and I think our skill level is improving.”
The Parksiders face Barrow Raiders in Round One of the Championship but they’ll be in Challenge Cup action prior to that with the club drawn away against either Lock Lane or Doncaster Toll Bar, with that game set to be played on the weekend of the 25th and 26th of February.
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