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Really pleased for the lad but sad we'll lose him.

Fair play to him, great opportunity and experience for him.

Paid to play the thing you love down under

It's a good team to go to as they are very injury prone and not overloaded with wingers. They seem to be the team that struggles most at the back end of the season, so he might get the chance to shine when someone is forced out.

From looking at their first team, they only have two other wingers in their squad: Daniel Toupou and Jaxson Paulo. I know that Suuali often plays on the wing, but I'm pretty sure that is not regarded as a permanent thing.

Toupou will be 33 by the time Lewis heads out there, so perhaps past his best as a winger. The biggest risk for Lewis is that they will seek to attract an established winger for that season rather than having an untested Brit landing the slot.

Good luck to him though. If he does as well as his potential suggests, even if he doesn't get a gig for the Roosters, he'll find a slot somewhere.

I’ve said this several times…if he moves on then I’ve enjoyed his talent at trinity and we still have this season !!

Good Luck to him, thought he was nailed on for St Helens next season though according to those (not in) the know?

Rather The Roosters than Saints, all day long.

If true, I’m disappointed he’s leaving.
He’s a fantastic talent that will now get an opportunity to experience a different lifestyle in a fantastic climate,while getting to play the game he loves!
What’s not to like about that? And that’s before money even gets mentioned.
Good luck to him.
There’s a lot of fans from the big clubs over here who have started banging on about the salary cap issues again. Which is typical of them. Personally I think it’s got more to do with the fact that they expected Murphy to sign for their clubs and realise they’ve been out flanked by the Chucks!
Unlucky!!

Got told about this few weeks back,hes as been offered a deal with us but turned down in favour of roosters,as a fan its a bit annoying that he we gave him a chance from college rugby and aided his development then after only a very short time and at the first opportunity hes spread his wings and flew the nest, that said cant blame the lad

I like the fact that it’s one of our players leaving for the NRL that has caused RL social media to go into meltdown.

He’ll find it impossible unless there is a plethora of injuries , more than likely the feeder club for him to bide his time .

The Roosters appear to like wingers from the Northern hemisphere unfortunately their track record does not install confidence because they quickly revert back to one of their own. They tried Hall and Burgess but both were eventually replaced and returned home, were they better players I don’t know. The only success is Young but to be honest in the NRL his performances were at best average but the team he played for was going through a bad spell.

You're so wrong there Khlav, we could and I believe would compete with that. Money is not as big an issue for us when it comes to player signings than people think. What we can't offer is assured success, or as close as you can get to that.

Joining the Roosters will immediately secure Murphy an England spot at some level, probably before he plays in the NRL. Should it not work ou, so long as he wasn't a total flop, he will walk back into a top SL team on a mega salary. It's a win win for him.

I don't know if this story is true, Shaw has a marginally better success rate in the gossip stakes than most, but seeing as Trinity fans seem to want to believe everything they read lets go with it.

If true doesn't surprise me, Murphy seems incredibly focussed for his age, very Gareth Ellis in his maturity. So I've no doubt he'd go for it for the very reasons I outlined above, he's a very smart lad it seems.

FWIW I reckon it was that tackle against the Wire that alerted the Roosters - the Aussies will have admired that far more than his try scoring exploits - even by NRL standards that was the work of a true pro in the makings, and he's pulled off a few good tackles.

If he goes best of luck young man, you made your mark from day one in the Academy imo.

Hall was past it, Burgess just didn't settle, it happens.

Murphy seems very close to his family, might be his only issue in the NRL (home sickness) but who knows. It's not like he's going to Mars, if it doesn't work out he won't be without a gig for long.