A teenage prospect from West Yorkshire has signed a full-time contract with Premiership rugby union club Sale Sharks.
Hooker Alfie Longstaff - from Lofthouse, between Leeds and Wakefield - will step up from Sale’s under-18s to the senior academy for the 2024/25 season as he begins a three-year deal. He will train alongside Sale’s first team squad and also gain experience on dual-registration with a National League club.
Longstaff began playing rugby with Rocky’s Giants, at Oulton, from the ages of three to six and for Raiders’ under-sevens to under-13s. He was an under-12s league, Continuation Cup and Leeds and District Cup champion with Oulton and then won a National Cup, Yorkshire Cup and Yorkshire Junior League treble with Lock Lane under-14s, as well as the Castleford and District competition.
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