{"id":955223,"date":"2026-05-12T17:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/955223\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:05:44","slug":"brodie-croft-leeds-rhinos-half-backs-future-down-to-him-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/955223\/","title":{"rendered":"Brodie Croft: Leeds Rhinos&#8217; half-back&#8217;s future &#8216;down to him&#8217; &#8211; Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Leeds Rhinos head coach Brad Arthur has said half-back Brodie Croft&#8217;s future is down to him.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old Australian is out of contract with the Headingley side at the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Croft, who won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/62975371\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Prescott MBE Man of Steel in 2022<\/a> with Salford, has been linked with a move back to the NRL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club has done everything they can,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0nkrs7t\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur told BBC Radio Leeds.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Bleasey (sporting director Ian Blease) is working with his management and has been for quite a while and there was an understanding of when we&#8217;d try to get near a decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s had interest from Australia but the conversations I&#8217;ve had with Brodie, he understands what the club has done for him and he understands the position he plays in our team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His good form is based on the back of a lot of what the team is doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All his indications are to me that if he remains in England that Leeds is his club. It&#8217;ll come down to Brodie now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Croft scored 15 tries in 51 appearances across his first two seasons with the Rhinos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is already on 13 tries from 10 games this year for the Super League leaders and Arthur believes an alteration to the amount he is getting involved in the game has made a difference to his output.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s going really well. He&#8217;s picking his times of when to get involved in the game,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His touches are down from last year and that&#8217;s what we wanted. We wanted more quality than quantity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds Rhinos head coach Brad Arthur has said half-back Brodie Croft&#8217;s future is down to him. The 28-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-955223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116562698501839733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}