\n Mitchell Prest, one of two young props signed from Down Under for 2027, has starred with Mackay Cutters in the Queensland Cup this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n So much so that the 23-year-old has been named the competition’s prop of the year at a glittering awards ceremony held at Brisbane City Hall today.\n<\/p>\n
\n Prest was a key figure in both the SG Ball Cup and Jersey Flegg teams at Canberra Raiders before joining the Cutters.\n<\/p>\n
\n Wolves chiefs will see Prest’s gong as a further sign that their recruitment strategy is hitting the mark.\n<\/p>\n
\n Wire fans will be interested to note that the club’s former Papua New Guinean centre Rodrick Tai, who now plays for Central Queensland Capras, was named centre of the year.\n<\/p>\n
\n The other prop Warrington have signed for 2027 is New Zealander Toby Crosby, also 23, from Penrith Panthers.\n<\/p>\n
\n Crosby played a key role in the New Zealand Warriors side that won last year’s New South Wales Cup.\n<\/p>\n
\n Both are heading to the Halliwell Jones Stadium on two-year contracts.\n<\/p>\n
\n At the time their signings were announced, Wolves head coach Burgess said about Prest: \u201cThere’s still lots of development ahead of him, but we’re confident he can continue to improve and make a real contribution to this club in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitchell Prest, one of two young props signed from Down Under for 2027, has starred with Mackay Cutters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}