Tigers re-sign international forward

The Wests Tigers person locked up different portion of their future, with Alex Twal extending his enactment until the extremity of the 2024 season.

Twal, 25, was off-contract astatine the extremity of the upcoming campaign, having racked up 89 games arsenic a mediate guardant successful the achromatic and orange.

Tigers guardant Alex Twal has re-signed with the club. (Getty)

The Lebanese planetary has been a coagulated beingness successful the squad since helium joined the nine from Parramatta backmost successful 2017, making his archetypal people debut that year.

He capped disconnected an awesome rookie play with a call-up to the Cedars for the World Cup.

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"I'm truly blessed to beryllium staying astatine Wests Tigers," Twal said.

"Wests Tigers feels similar portion of my DNA now. I've been determination for 5 years and cognize we're gathering thing precise peculiar with the radical we person astatine the club.

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"I'm truly focused connected making the nine palmy and doing immoderate I tin to beryllium a portion of that. I cognize what occurrence volition mean to the Wests Tigers fans and everyone wrong the nine and I'll enactment everything into what I bash to assistance america execute that success."

Coach Michael Maguire praised Twal's enactment ethic and said that everyone astir the nine was delighted that he'd beryllium sticking around.

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"Alex is simply a existent nonrecreational successful the mode that helium approaches his game, and I've been impressed successful the mode that helium has grown arsenic a person wrong our squad," helium said.

"He has continued to enactment hard astatine each aspects of his crippled and I'm looking guardant to seeing him proceed to make further successful the years to come."

It's been a bully week for the Tigers guardant pack's prospects, with the nine besides signing Isaiah Papali'i from Parramatta a fewer days ago.

The aboriginal of halfback Luke Brooks, however, remains up successful the air.

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