Super League star set for exit

With Leeds Rhinos, Wigan Warriors and Hull FC looking for halfbacks in 2024 it was a surprise to see Hull KR as the ones to snap up Tyrone May given they have Jordan Abdull, Mikey Lewis and Rowan Milnes contracted to the club for 2024.

That said, there have been rumblings that Milnes could be headed to Headingley in 2024 though this is unconfirmed.

However, it seems that Hull KR won’t be keeping NRL star Brad Schneider in 2024.

The halfback joined the club on a short term deal for the end of this season and Willie Peters all but confirmed his departure today.

He said: “I mean with Brad, it was always like a short term, which we’d spoken about initially.

“So I don’t want to talk too much around Brad and where he’s at or where he’s going and like that, but our initial agreement was going to be a short term sort of contract and then see from there.

“But obviously bringing Tyrone in, yeah that’s what we’re looking at to bring in the halves.”

When asked about him exiting the club he said:

“Yeah, yeah, that’d be right, mate, because we don’t have the quota spot.

“As I said, I don’t want to talk too much about Brad in the media, because I don’t know a great deal in terms of where he’s at. We do know that we signed a short-term agreement. He knew that when he came to the club and and through his management so that’s where that’s at mate.”

Meanwhile, Peters spoke about bringing in May:

“Tyrone May, yeah he’s a player, as I said yesterday, we looked at him last year. I’ve known Tyrone from coaching against him in the NRL.

“He’s come over here, he’s had two quality seasons with the Catalans and he became available. It sort of happened pretty quickly but he’s definitely going to add to our squad.

“What we want to do is add some experience and players that have played in big games and he’s certainly done that.

“He’s leading the way over there at the Catalans, he’s having a really strong season and he’s a player that we looked at last year and when he became available this year, and it was available, we went for it.”

He also admitted he was surprised that he became available:

“Yeah, I don’t know what happened, sort of things that happened. I think he was going to go back to the NRL at one stage and then that didn’t happen. And then once we knew that it was still available, once I heard that it was available, that’s when we ended up approaching him.

“I think at one stage he was pretty much, and it was in the media about it too, he was pretty much done to go back to the NRL. Then once we knew that he was available, then we approached him. It was good timing to be honest.

“He can play a lot of positions, but as I’ve said, he’s a quality six. There’s no doubt about that. He’s doing that for the Catalans. I said it a couple of days ago and I’ll say it again. He’s a player that we’re looking at definitely playing the halves.

“We’re going to have some competition around our spine. You have a look at this year. We had to put Jez Litten, who’s a hooker, we’ve had to play him at seven. Ethan Ryan, who’s a winger, who can play fullback, but we had to put him at fullback.

“We’ve had narrow games that we got beat by Wigan on the bell, went an extra time, Warrington, Salford up in Magic. You know, if we had some depth in our spine, do we win those games? Certainly helps, that’s for sure.

“So I wanted to build a stronger spine in terms of our depth, and we’re definitely doing that with Tyrone.”