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MELBOURNE Storm star Greg Inglis will today announce he is staying in rugby league.
The Australian Test representative is expected to announce a four-year deal with the Storm worth $2million. Inglis was contracted to Melbourne until 2010 but, in a bid to fend off widespread interest in the powerful five-eighth, the club moved quickly to tie him up for another two years.
The news is an enormous boost for rugby league given the speculation that Inglis was considering a move to French rugby union.The deal was sealed at a meeting in Sydney today between Storm CEO Brian Waldron and Inglis's manager, Alan Gainey.
Inglis cleaned up at last night's Dally M awards, claiming three individual honours. He was named five-eighth of the year and representative player of the year and also took home the award for the Peter Frilingos headline moment for his performance Australia against New Zealand.
Inglis is the latest player to re-commit long term to Storm. The club has already locked in Cooper Cronk, Brett White, Dallas Johnson, Anthony Quinn and Billy Slater.
And they are also negotiating with skipper Cameron Smith, who is also expected to stay with the Premiership favourites. But Storm have lost Israel Folau, Michael Crocker, Jeremy Smith and Antonio Kafausi to other clubs and Matt Geyer to retirement.
The announcement is expected to take place at 3pm today
The Australian Test representative is expected to announce a four-year deal with the Storm worth $2million. Inglis was contracted to Melbourne until 2010 but, in a bid to fend off widespread interest in the powerful five-eighth, the club moved quickly to tie him up for another two years.
The news is an enormous boost for rugby league given the speculation that Inglis was considering a move to French rugby union.The deal was sealed at a meeting in Sydney today between Storm CEO Brian Waldron and Inglis's manager, Alan Gainey.
Inglis cleaned up at last night's Dally M awards, claiming three individual honours. He was named five-eighth of the year and representative player of the year and also took home the award for the Peter Frilingos headline moment for his performance Australia against New Zealand.
Inglis is the latest player to re-commit long term to Storm. The club has already locked in Cooper Cronk, Brett White, Dallas Johnson, Anthony Quinn and Billy Slater.
And they are also negotiating with skipper Cameron Smith, who is also expected to stay with the Premiership favourites. But Storm have lost Israel Folau, Michael Crocker, Jeremy Smith and Antonio Kafausi to other clubs and Matt Geyer to retirement.
The announcement is expected to take place at 3pm today