attracted interest from the northern hemisphere previously but did not feel the timing was right until earlier this year<\/a>. Conversations with Canberra coach Stuart helped confirm the decision to continue his career in Super League.<\/p>\n\u201cRicky was a good help for me – I spoke to him during the year about a potential move over and all that sort of stuff – just about the timing in my career and everything like that,\u201d the half-back said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was really good and told me it would be a good move, which put my mind at ease.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cook made eight NRL appearances across two stints with Canberra, while also spending time with the New Zealand Warriors and North Queensland Cowboys.<\/p>\n
While the majority of his career has been spent in the Queensland Cup and New South Wales Cup, Cook felt he was ready to establish himself at first-grade level.<\/p>\n
Cook continued: \u201cIt was good [at Canberra Raiders], I learned a lot. I was there when I was young, then went away for a little bit and played in the Queensland Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cRicky being a half himself, every time I spoke to him I was like a sponge trying to soak up all the information.<\/p>\n
“But I felt as if I needed some consistency. 2024 was a really good year for me, and I felt that I needed to step up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2025, I only played one NRL game, so I felt ready to move and play more consistent footy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cook has been tipped to become Leigh\u2019s next hidden gem, following in the footsteps of players such as Kai O\u2019Donnell and Edwin Ipape.<\/p>\n
He joins a star-studded 2026 squad, with David Armstrong, Isaac Liu and Tesi Niu among the recent high-profile signings from overseas. Having arrived in November, Cook said he was no longer surprised by the calibre of talent head coach Adrian Lam has been able to attract.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think from the outside looking in, I was probably a bit surprised that they\u2019ve been able to get these types of players,\u201d Cook said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut now being here and seeing what the club is about and seeing the direction we\u2019re moving in, and talking to Adrian Lam, there\u2019s a very obvious reason people come here – and that\u2019s to win competitions. As a player, that\u2019s a very attractive thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew Aaron Pene, we were at the Warriors together for a little bit. Davey Armstrong reached out to me as soon as the news came out that I had signed, but other than that, I didn\u2019t really know or play with any of the boys. But they\u2019ve welcomed me with open arms, and it\u2019s been good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh’s latest recruit reveals conversations with Ricky Stuart ahead of his Super League switch.Adam Cook made eight appearances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-370318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370318","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=370318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Adam Cook made eight appearances for Canberra Raiders in the NRL.<\/p>\n