Looks like he is jumping out of the pan in to the fire and a lot hotter fire at that but good luck to him he is going to need it

Good luck to the lad & I now hope he will get the recognotion he deserves. I watched the Raiders on TV this week the hookers they had out looked handy, Buttress & Baptieste one of them must be moving on to another club? hope we have the option to sign him back if he comes home.

Good luck to him.
Definitely been one of our stand out and consistent players for the past 3 seasons.
Sad to see him leave, but it's a big opportunity for him.
Big loss for us.

Of all the places to go to in Australia why go to Canberra can't think of a more boring place

All the best in the NRL Josh, tough gig at Canberra, but he's earned the chance to have a crack.

Nice to see it confirmed that we got a "substantial" fee for him.

Just read it's a bond and you have to pay it back if he rejoins you in two years, bit of a weird deal. Said to be 100k though, so decent money.

Where did you read that? Sounds a strange arrangement, he's not a 2 bedroomed flat.

Josh named in the Four Nations squad www.superleague.co.uk/article/31 ... ew-captain

Josh named in the Four Nations squad www.superleague.co.uk/article/31 ... ew-captain

Pleased for the lad. I'm sure if 1 of Roby or McIllorum were available he'd have missed out, but with McBanana's obsession with anyone playing NRL, he will be a shoe in next season.

Regarding SM's clear high regard for NRL based players, has Mike Cooper made a bit of an impact out there? I don't follow the NRL, but kind of assumed he'd be fringe player over there mainly playing reserve grade. Good on him if he's playing regularly in first grade. Decent, solid player but not much more than that at Warrington, I thought.

Playing very well at St George several of the pundits very impressed with him

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Cheers.

Well done to him.

Good luck to the lad, from my club East Hull, he is a very tough player, he is going to better his career going down under, well just leaving kr will better anyone's career. (Joke)

Hilarious too. You re wasted making caravans.

Don't make caravans do keep up.

He cleans the bogs.

he's not that talented

Fair point, well made.

he's too busy on "Radford Duty", it's like Coming to America.

Its nice when we all agree for once,a bit of common ground.

every village has an idiot, unfortunately ours got a job as head coach.

Great to see Josh starting for England this weekend, I know he's leaving but it gives me immense pride that Rovers played a part in his development to this level:

England team: S Tomkins (New Zealand Warriors); J Charnley (Wigan), K Watkins (Leeds), M Shenton (Castleford), R Hall (Leeds); G Widdop (St George Illawarra), M Smith (Wigan); G Burgess (South Sydney), J Hodgson (Hull KR), J Graham (Canterbury Bulldogs, capt), L Farrell (Wigan), J Tomkins (Wigan), J Westerman (Hull).

Replacements: D Clark (Castleford), B Ferres (Huddersfield), T Burgess (South Sydney), C Hill (Warrington).

Hope he goes well, he is going to need to as he has strong competition for the hooking role.

Think he will do well imo