Many rugby league fans believe that St Helens’ Konrad Hurrell will finish his career off in Super League.
At the age of 30, the Tonga international has been in the UK since joining the Leeds Rhinos back in 2019.
In that time spent at Headingley, Hurrell scored 23 tries in 43 appearances and firmly enamoured himself to the Leeds supporters.
However, a new challenge with Saints – where he has linked up with current Tonga boss Kristian Woolf – awaits in 2022.
That being said, Hurrell has only signed a one-year deal and The Mole at the World Wide of Sports has revealed that the Dolphins are sniffing around to hunt the 30-year-old for 2023.
The Dolphins – who have dropped the tag ‘Redcliffe’ from their name ahead of their NRL debut – will be the newest team to participate in the NRL competition from 2023, with former England and Great Britain coach Wayne Bennett the man to lead them forward.
Brisbane Broncos utility Jamayne Isaako and Melbourne Storm packman Felise Kaufusi have already signed on the dotted line with the club determined to poach new stars.
Hulking centre – who may well be used in the pack in 2022 by Woolf – registered over 100 appearances for the New Zealand Warriors and Gold Coast Titans in the NRL after debuting in 2012.
Hurrell stayed with the Warriors for four and a half seasons and the Titans for two and a half before making the move to Leeds.
He has also made 11 appearances for Tonga, scoring two tries in the process, and will be hoping for a successful year at St Helens to earn himself a place at the Rugby League World Cup.
Rugby Dude
January 4, 2022 at 10:33 am
They have already removed the place name from their team name; something that will never align between British sport and World sport; foreign teams see the “tag”, in this case “Dolphins” as the most important thing and hope to attract fans based on who their players are, their badge or logo, their coach, advertising, promotion, team colours etc; all of the secondary and tertiary components of a teams identity when viewed from a British angle. In Britain, it is all about the place, the location, and that is why the support is so “tribal” and rarely wavers, but also why maybe they find it difficult to grow, though personally I am not a fan of the “plastic” way foreign teams operate.
Note: I am aware that this is not 100%.