World News – AU – NRL 2020: Transfer Whispers, Karmichael Hunt, Broncos, Brandon Smith, Wests Tigers, Storm, Contract, Player Movement

The Brandon Smith storm utility is currently the most talked about signature in the game, having been given permission to negotiate with competing clubs for 2022 and 2022 beyond.

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West Tigers manager Michael Maguire has confirmed the club is interested in tracking down the Storm utility Brandon Smith.

Ironically, Smith would fill the hole left by colleague Storm Hooker and Tigers swap player Harry Grant, who left the club after a season to return to Melbourne.

« As a club we all look at each other, » Maguire replied when asked if he would like to bring Smith to Concord.

« We want to improve. If we bring such players into the club, we’ll be a better team. « . ”

Maguire has an inside relationship with Smith, who worked with him in his role as New Zealand national coach.

After recently extending his own contract with the Tigers to the end of 2023, Maguire rates Smith very highly and is confident that he will help the club move forward.

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“Definitely yes. He’s a very good whore, I have a lot of time watching him play the game, ”said Maguire.

« He played a completely different role down there (Melbourne) due to the circumstances, but the time he was with me at the Kiwis was excellent. « .

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« He’s one of those players everyone loves to play with, but his craft in this area is very smart. ”

The roadblock to Smith’s signing could help cost the Tiger Josh Addo-Carr as the Storm wants a player of similar stature in return.

The Tigers have room to raise the salary cap after dumping Josh Reynolds at Hull FC, but Maguire insisted they won’t be using that money on any player.

« They’re looking at what’s available and what players can add to what we have here, » said Maguire.

« We’re very specific about what we’re looking for . . . we want winners, we want people who go way beyond that because that’s what it takes to win comps, « he said.

« You have to find the players and the characters I am looking for to get into the Wests Tigers are the ones who want to walk through the door and want to win every day. ”

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Former Broncos Premier League winner Karmichael Hunt is aiming for a return to the NRL after being cut by the NSW Waratahs.

The Daily Telegraph reported the 34-year-old was considering returning to the NRL or moving overseas to continue his career as a player and one day become the NRL head coach.

« To be honest, it’s kind of a limbo after we officially dealt with the Waratahs a few months ago and aren’t sure what’s going to happen next year, » Hunt told The Telegraph.

« I understand my manager is obviously still doing his job, looking for overseas club openings and trying to come up with some offers in the clubs in Australia, not just in rugby circles but also in rugby league.

« It’s a pretty vulnerable position compared to what I’m usually used to. And that certainly has a contract and football matches and when the preseason starts and I know when I have to be there.

Hunt recently returned to Brisbane with his wife, Emma, ​​who is expecting to have a fourth child early next year.

Hunt scored 53 tries in 125 games for the Broncos and won a Premier League with the club in 2006 before joining the Suns in the AFL in 2010.

« If anything, it’s been the best kind of football I’ve played in rugby in the last two years and some people on social media or on the street say, ‘We’re big fans from the Broncos days ‘and you ask, « What are you doing with yourself now? » I’ve literally been playing rugby for four to five years, « said Hunt.

« And they say, » Oh really? « You think I must have retired. It’s funny because when you’re out of the bubble, people in the league will likely think you no longer exist. ”

If Hunt is forced to retire, his next goal is to get into coaching, ideally at the NRL.

Former Maroons and Kangaroos star is currently studying psychology in hopes of qualifying as a sports psychologist and helping athletes.

« For the past four and a half, five years I have been busy dropping out of my undergrad, my psycho-undergrad at USQ (University of South Queensland). I’ll graduate after the first semester of next year, « said Hunt.

“And the other way for me is that as a coach I want to give something back and play this rugby league.

« If it turns out that I cannot play professionally or if there is no worthwhile offer to play professionally, I have to seriously think about moving into the next phase of my life and that is coaching and my studies. ”

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