TWO names of players with Warrington Wolves squad numbers for the 2024 season may be a little unfamiliar to some Wire fans.
Zac Bardsley-Rowe and Nolan Tupaea will have senior squad numbers for the first time next season.
They were both on the recent Warrington Wolves Academy tour of Australia, although Bardsley-Rower did not play in any of the games due to recovering from injury.
The pair progressed through the club’s scholarship programme and were first signed up to the Academy in 2022.
Bardsley-Rowe is a centre hailing from the Salford City Roosters junior club.
He is a big, strong and powerful athlete, carries the ball well and is a very good defender.
His development over the last two years has been hailed as ‘fantastic’ within the club and he has represented Lancashire at Academy level.
Back-rower Tupaea, who came through at Oldham club Saddleworth Rangers, is another big powerful player who has good skills and has good passing ability before and after the line.
Tupaea was in the England Academy squad in 2023 and was a member of the team that reached the Academy Grand Final last month.
Warrington Wolves 2024 squad numbers:
1 Matt Dufty
2 Josh Thewlis
3 Toby King
4 Stefan Ratchford
5 Matty Ashton
6 George Williams
7 Josh Drinkwater
8 James Harrison
9 Danny Walker
10 Paul Vaughan
11 Ben Currie
12 Lachlan Fitzgibbon
13 Matty Nicholson
14 Rodrick Tai
15 Joe Philbin
16 Zane Musgrove
17 Jordy Crowther
18 Leon Hayes
19 Joe Bullock
20 Connor Wrench
21 Sam Kasiano
22 Gil Dudson
23 Brad Dwyer
24 Matty Russell
25 Lucas Green
26 Wesley Bruines
27 Luke Thomas
28 Adam Holroyd
29 Tom Whitehead
30 Josh Lynch
31 Jake Thewlis
32 Sam Powell
35 Zac Bardsley-Rowe
36 Nolan Tupaea
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