Joey Leilua has signed with English Championship broadside Featherstone Rovers arsenic the centre looks to revive his rugby league career.
Following his arguable exit from the Tigers, Leilua, 29 volition nexus up with Featherstone up of the 2022 season.
The Championship is the 2nd tier of English rugby league, 1 level beneath the Super League.
The erstwhile Dally M centre of the twelvemonth has played 225 NRL games and volition articulation ex-NRL players Fa'amanu Brown, Dane Chisholm and erstwhile Manly, Cronulla guardant Jesse Sene-Lefao, who joined the nine past week.
Featherstone manager Brian McDermott said: "This signing is different wide objection of this club's unwavering ambition and absorption connected gaining Super League promotion.
"Joey brings a level of acquisition and earthy quality that is unrivalled successful the Championship.
"He'll adhd immoderate superior size, spot and focused aggression which volition assistance this broadside spell up to different level.
"I've had galore conversations with Joey implicit the past fewer weeks, we're looking guardant to moving unneurotic to execute our Super League objective."
Leilua took a parting changeable astatine Tigers manager Michael Maguire amid his disfigured departure from Concord, saying helium was punted from the nine due to the fact that helium was consenting to "speak up erstwhile thing is incorrect - and determination were plentifulness of things going incorrect astatine that club."
Before heading to England, Leilua volition instrumentality connected Chris Heighington successful a boxing match connected the Paul Gallen-Josh Aloiai undercard. He said helium hopes to play successful the NRL again and is frustrated with however his estimation was trashed during his break-up with the Tigers.
"I conscionable privation to beryllium that I'm committed and consenting to bash thing to triumph and that's what I person done my full career," Leilua said earlier this month.
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"I don't cognize wherefore everyone is reasoning of maine with what has been going connected successful the media.
"I decidedly privation to play successful the NRL again. Everyone has got this persona of maine being a atrocious idiosyncratic for the squad and I'm going retired determination to beryllium myself that I'm committed to this boxing, and amusement them I inactive privation to beryllium a portion of the NRL.
"(I privation to) acceptable the rumours consecutive and amusement I'm not that benignant of idiosyncratic – it is disappointing that everyone thinks I'm similar that."
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