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The Bulldogs have highlighted the hooker role as a priority in recruitment for 2020, identifying three potential targets for next season.
The club has begun making enquiries with Cronulla’s Blayke Brailey, St George Illawarra’s Reece Robson and Wests Tigers rake Jacob Liddle.
All three players are off contract at the end of 2019, while current hooker Michael Lichaa is also on the final year of his deal with Canterbury.
The Sharks are desperate to keep Brailey, but his older brother Jayden is the starting hooker and is contracted until the end of 2020.
It is expected both brothers will work in tandem for John Morris’s side this year, with Blayke tipped to make his Telstra Premiership debut following the departure of James Segeyaro.
The Dragons have a huge opinion of Robson, who was picked by Mal Meninga in the Prime Minister’s XIII team that played in Papua New Guinea last year. However Cameron McInnes appears to have a mortgage on the St George Illawarra No.9 jersey.
The Tigers want to hold on to Liddle, with Robbie Farah likely to hang up the boots at the end of the season.
The Bulldogs are starting to free up some money in the salary cap and the No.9 role is deemed a vital cog in their recruitment plans for 2020 and beyond.
https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/02/13/melbourne-storm-plan-switch-for-cameron-smith-to-spark-attack/
The club has begun making enquiries with Cronulla’s Blayke Brailey, St George Illawarra’s Reece Robson and Wests Tigers rake Jacob Liddle.
All three players are off contract at the end of 2019, while current hooker Michael Lichaa is also on the final year of his deal with Canterbury.
The Sharks are desperate to keep Brailey, but his older brother Jayden is the starting hooker and is contracted until the end of 2020.
It is expected both brothers will work in tandem for John Morris’s side this year, with Blayke tipped to make his Telstra Premiership debut following the departure of James Segeyaro.
The Dragons have a huge opinion of Robson, who was picked by Mal Meninga in the Prime Minister’s XIII team that played in Papua New Guinea last year. However Cameron McInnes appears to have a mortgage on the St George Illawarra No.9 jersey.
The Tigers want to hold on to Liddle, with Robbie Farah likely to hang up the boots at the end of the season.
The Bulldogs are starting to free up some money in the salary cap and the No.9 role is deemed a vital cog in their recruitment plans for 2020 and beyond.
https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/02/13/melbourne-storm-plan-switch-for-cameron-smith-to-spark-attack/