Reds sign Will Chambers from NRL

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The Queensland Reds have pulled off a coup by signing rising Melbourne Storm centre Will Chambers to a two-year Super 14 deal.

Chambers, 20, will switch codes at the end of the 2009 season and is viewed as a potential outside centre in a young Reds backline bristling with talent.

The 101kg Northern Territory-product played rugby as a schoolboy and represented Queensland alongside Reds playmaker Quade Cooper in 2006.

He has played three seasons with the Storm and also starred for the Queensland Under-19s league team but his 2008 season was marred by a knee injury.

"Will spoke to us some time ago about playing rugby again and in subsequent discussions convinced us that he had a genuine desire to play for the Reds after enjoying the game as a representative schoolboy at Nudgee College in Brisbane," said Reds high-performance manager Ben Whitaker.

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Good signing this, I liked what I saw of Will Chambers in the world club challenge when the Storm lost to Leeds I think.

He was one of the Storms best in a losing side that day & Bellamy gave him a big wrap afterwards.

He'll be a fine replacement for Morgan T.

 

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Already covered in the Reds thread...

http://forum.theyellowscarf.com/index.php?topic=4683.680