Have the Bulldogs capped their ceiling by extending Gould and Ciraldo through 2031?<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019ll be back page news\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRealistically, if we\u2019re in the Super League and can get cracking at building a roster, we\u2019re already talking to people now,\u201d Lockyer said on the Back Ten podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coach is already committed, subject to being in Super League. Jason Demetriou has been our target. He\u2019s got plenty of experience in England as a player and a coach. He got South Sydney Rabbitohs to a prelim before he had a difficult year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other key part to this is getting our club captain, we\u2019re looking at an experienced player from the NRL to come over. He might only play one or two years, but we\u2019re looking for leadership, and if we get those two appointments right, we think we can build a roster out quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wechsel added: \u201cIt\u2019ll be back page news in the Telegraph in Sydney if we land the captain that we\u2019re looking for. I think there\u2019s also a lot of fairly current NRL talent that could fall in behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if the Super League bid falls short, Lockyer and Wechsel remain committed to purchasing the Broncos, convinced that a strong London side is vital to rugby league\u2019s international growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren Lockyer revealed bold plans to bring a marquee NRL player to the London Broncos as captain, should…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-133256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}