Rochdale signs Edwards, Nixon
Two of - Canterbury’s most promising rugby league representatives are likely to be team-mates of a former All Black in the British second division next northern season.
The ambitious Rochdale Hornets club expects to have the Canterbury loose forward, Logan Edwards, and stand-off half, Mark
Nixon, and the 1987 All Black forward, Mark Brooke-Cowden, in its lineup.
Rochdale officials are negotiating with BrookeCowden, who has been released by the powerful Leeds first division club after failing to become a regular member of that side. If Brooke-Cowden
agrees to terms with Rochdale he would by no means be the first rugby union international to wear the club’s colours. Rochdale once had a bevy of Fijian test players in its ranks.
Last British season Rochdale had three young Canterbury players, Edwards, Stuart Simcott and Walter Wilson.
Edwards was then a substitute for Nixon, who became a candidate for a rookie clearance to the Canberra Raiders club in New South Wales. Now Edwards and Nixon are to devote their combined talents towards assisting Rochdale in its bid for promotion to the first division.
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