Leeds Rhinos, Hull FC and Huddersfield Giants have all been interested in NRL halfback Adam Clune.
Leeds Rhinos have lost Blake Austin for the rest of the season after he moved to Castleford Tigers for the rest of the season.
Aidan Sezer meanwhile is widely expected to join Wests Tigers in 2024 and the NRL is the destination for Jake Clifford who will leave Hull FC to return to the North Queensland Cowboys.
Hull signed him and Tex Hoy from Newcastle Knights and the club are again looking that way for Clune but it would seem Huddersfield are the front runners.
Now Huddersfield boss Ian Watson has revealed talks with the halfback:
“I’ve seen all the press around that and we weren’t even in that one. It was Hull and Leeds a couple of weeks ago.
“We’re interested. We’ll see. We’re speaking like probably everybody else. We’ll see and we’re hopeful we can get something done like we always are when we speak to players.
“There’ll be lots of players that come up and names will get thrown around and obviously if you’re looking in that area as well you’re going to get tagged with every kind of player but yeah it was interesting because for four weeks all we’ve seen is Hull and Leeds on that one.”
In terms of the profile of player he wants, Watson said:
“I think the biggest one for us is getting somebody who can help control our team. If you look what we’ve got within the squad at the moment, we’ve got obviously people like Jake Connor, Tui Lolohea. We’ve got them kind of running players within our squad as well,
“When we’ve lost people like Theo and Oliver Russell this year, we’ve really, really struggled just because we’ve not had anybody who’s been able to kind of give us that control on the field.
“So what we think we need is we need somebody who’s going to be a threat to themselves as a player but who can bring that kind of team cohesion together and be able to control that going forward.”
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