The squad lists for the 2024 NRLW Telstra Premiership season have been released, as clubs begin pre-season training ahead of the season start in Newcastle on July 25.
Talei Holmes has signed a new two-year contract with the Sharks until the end of 2026, securing his spot for the 2024 season.
The 24-year-old second-rower began his career with Cronulla’s Tarsha Gale as a teenager and appeared in all nine games of the club’s debut NRLW season last year.
Holmes, who is already contracted until 2024, expressed her excitement about staying in the Shire for the long haul.
“We’ve got a good core group of girls, so I’m really excited to have that security for the next two years at the club where I’m really enjoying my time,” she stated.
The announcement comes after former Jillaroo and New South Wales representative Nakia Davis-Welsh signed an NRLW deal with the Sharks for the 2017 season.
The Davis-Welsh, who can play a range of backline positions, has been trying to break into Cronulla’s elite team for the past two seasons and will play for the club in the Harvey Norman Women’s Premiership in 2023 before making her NRLW debut for Parramatta.
Meanwhile, the Broncos have filled the final two roster spaces with the additions of Lavinia Gould and Bree Spreadborough.
Gould is a Broncos ‘original’, one of only five players still on the squad from the inaugural 2018 season, along with Ali Brigginshaw, Julia Robinson, Chelsea Lenarduzzi, and Mariah Denman.
Spreadborough, a backrower with the Central Queensland Capras in the BMD Premiership, has been named Brisbane’s final member of the 24-player NRLW squad.
The Gold Coast Titans have said goodbye to rugby league legend Steph Hancock, who has signed with the Dragons for 2024 as an injury replacement for Tara McGrath-West, who has a sternum injury and will miss the season.
Pihuka Berryman-Duff and forward Jade Fonua will continue their NRLW careers at Parramatta. Both kids made their NRLW debuts for the Eels last season and have signed one-year contracts to return in 2024.
Taneka Todhunter, Lindsay Tui, Chloe Jackson, and Tafao Asaua are all development players who have joined the club’s top 24 squad for the 2017 season.
The Knights have signed Grace Kukutai, a former New Zealand netball star, and Isabella Waterman, a fellow Super Rugby conversion, for the 2018 NRLW season.
New Knights coach Ben Jeffries has finalised his roster, which includes most of the players who helped Newcastle win back-to-back premierships last season, as well as Kukutai, Waterman, and teenage five-eighth Evie Jones.
The Titans have added four young female players to its 2024 development roster ahead of the forthcoming season. Georgia Grey, Tiresa Elika, and Sarina Masaga are all new faces to the club, while Estanoa Faitala returns following a terrible season-ending knee injury in 2023.
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