There’s just one week to go until Super League kicks off for 2019 and the excitement’s building as every club anticipates the new season. A new year brings new hope, and with it, new signings.
A whole host of NRL players have decided to head to England this year and it’s great to see a few younger players, with none of them approaching retirement just yet.
Here are the five NRL imports I’m most looking forward to seeing in Super League in 2019.
1. Blake Austin
There’s only one place to start and that’s with Warrington’s new five-eighth. Expectations are extremely high for marquee signing Austin, who’s the clear favourite with the bookies to be Man of Steel in 2019.
He’ll be replacing Tyrone Roberts at the Wolves and it’s fair to say he doesn’t have a lot to live up to. Roberts’ rather underwhelming year ended with a return to the Titans for 2019, although he did play his part in Warrington reaching the Grand Final and Challenge Cup Final in 2018, both of which they lost.
Wolves fans will be hoping Austin can take them one step further and finally deliver their first championship since 1955.
Tui Lolahea😂😂 that’s a good one
+1 Jake. You can also forget about Hurrell making any impact.
Albert Kelly is over there doing fine, I would prefer tui over him.
Hurrel will be one of the top try scorers over there this year. I take it you got for the warriors Jake? Well you have Kata and he is pretty much the same player as hurrel lol
Personally i dont think any of these guys will light up the super league
Kurt gidley and sandow lit the superleague up, most of our players are a league above there players.
Can’t disagree with that, there’s still a clear gulf between the 2 comps. Some of the English lads have become stand outs in the NRL though, Josh Hodgson, James Graham and Sam Burgess in particular.