Super League clubs have been alerted to the availability of overseas forward Ofahiki Ogden, Love Rugby League can reveal.<\/p>\n
A number of clubs are still on the lookout for players who can apply the finishing touches to their squad ahead of the new season, and while it is a notoriously difficult time to recruit, Ogden has emerged as one option, even if there is one obvious stumbling block that could stifle any move.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old has made 58 NRL appearances during his career, representing both Canterbury Bulldogs and Parramatta Eels. More recently, he has been a regular in the New South Wales Cup, representing North Sydney Bears last year, making 19 appearances.<\/p>\n
But that is almost certain to be the snag for any clubs interested in signing Ogden, as he has made just two first-grade appearances in the last two seasons.<\/p>\n
To gain a Governing Body Endorsement (GBE) players must have appeared in 50% of eligible NRL games in the past two seasons, something Ogden has not. Given that, it\u2019s hard to see how he would be able to secure a move.<\/p>\n
Both Wakefield Trinity and Wigan Warriors are understood to be in the market for a prop, with the Warriors\u2019 hand forced following the season-ending injury sustained by new signing, Oliver Wilson.<\/p>\n
Other clubs also still have salary cap space and quota spots to do business should they wish to do so, though opportunities are limited at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Super League clubs have been alerted to the availability of overseas forward Ofahiki Ogden, Love Rugby League can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-410676","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\/410676","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=410676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}