“I’ve had two unbelievable years with St Helens girls and I’ve completely loved that have and we have been a really profitable group,” Smith advised Wigan’s club website, external.
“This is a chance I could not flip down. I see this as a very large position and an necessary one that enables me to work with and develop younger gifted people that this membership has at all times produced.”
In the meantime, Hardman’s arrival at Saints comes after his earlier spell between 2019 and 2022 resulted in two Problem Cups, the League Leaders’ Protect and the Girls’s Tremendous League title.
Hardman was additionally concerned in Saints’ youth pathway, main their reserves to back-to-back Grand Finals and this season’s Reserves Championship title after beating Wigan in September.
Richards oversaw England Girls’s tour of Papua New Guinea, their participation within the World Nines competitors and the 2021 Rugby League World Cup.
“I made recollections for all times beforehand, however they’re recollections, and we’re right here to make much more transferring ahead as a result of we wish to be simply as profitable,” Hardman mentioned.
Richards added: “Girls’s rugby league is rising yr on yr, and subsequent yr would be the identical – it is going to be extra aggressive, and we wish to be on the forefront.”