Warrington Wolves second rower Dan Russell says he was enticed to hitch the membership attributable to Tremendous League’s enchancment in high quality relative to Australia’s Nationwide Rugby League (NRL).
The 29-year-old Papua New Guinea worldwide has joined the Wire forward of the upcoming 2025 season.
Previous to signing for Warrington, Russell made eight appearances within the NRL over two years with the St George Illwarra Dragons.
“There’s little variations [between Super League and the NRL] however not a lot. The extent over right here is nice, tremendous proficient and hard and it is getting related [to the NRL],” he instructed BBC Radio Merseyside.
“The competitors is getting near the NRL and I can see that. There’s a variety of expertise over right here now and a variety of younger youngsters coming by way of and it’s totally related.”
Russell additionally stated his worldwide team-mates, in addition to Warrington boss Sam Burgess, bought him on making the transfer to the northern hemisphere.
“Being within the PNG crew for a very long time now, there’s a variety of PNG boys over right here. They’ve all the time spoken extremely about it and the way good the competitors is,” he added.
“They helped lots however when Sam reached out it made the choice fairly simple.”