Rugby League Transfer Round-Up #2

This week saw a long-rumoured switch confirmed at the top of the Super League, as St Helens winger Tommy Makinson was confirmed as joining the Catalans Dragons for 2025. Makinson, who has played for the Saints for fourteen years, announced back in May that this season would be his last for the Merseyside outfit, with whom he has won five Super League titles, a World Club Challenge, a Challenge Cup, and four League Leaders Shields. He will move to the South of France on a two-year deal from next season.

The Leigh Leopards have done some brilliant business in the past few years, and they hope to have added to the list of excellent recruits with their latest signing, as it was announced this week that Aaron Pene had signed for the club from Melbourne Storm. The 28-year-old prop has played for both the Storm and New Zealand Warriors in the NRL, and will be joining the team soon on a two-and-a-half-year deal.

There was some controversy this week in East Yorkshire as Hull FC moved to withdraw the contract offer made to Treigh Stewart, following the emergence of domestic abuse allegations against him. The Black-and-Whites reacted quickly and decisively to distance themselves from the player, who was due to join them imminently on an 18-month-long contract, and the move (which was discussed on this site last week) will now no longer go ahead. In more positive news for FC, though, they have managed to tie down promising prospects Davy Litten and Jack Charles to new deals, keeping them at the MKM for the foreseeable future.

Written by Nathan Major-Kershaw (Site editor & Hull KR fan)