Featherstone pay undisclosed fee to sign Huddersfield winger

Featherstone have paid an undisclosed fee to sign Huddersfield winger Ben Blackmore.

Blackmore, 21, impressed Rovers officials while playing against them for Batley, and with the Giants deciding not to offer him a deal for next season, have allowed him to move with immediate effect.

He has signed with Featherstone until the end of 2016.

Chief executive Craig Poskitt said: “We’d like to thank Huddersfield Giants for their co-operation in completing the deal quickly. We have admired Ben for a while and were highly impressed with his performance against us for Batley Bulldogs on Sunday where he scored two tries. 

“We discussed Ben previously and following his two try performance only two weeks ago on Sky TV against St Helens we made him a target, fortunately we are now in a good position to compete with Super League clubs with Feisal’s recent investment and understand that a number of clubs were interested in Ben, so we acted swiftly with the cheque book.

“Ben is a local lad and I am sure he will fit in at the club quickly. We are now planning ahead and signed Ben until 2016, we have a three-quarter line that will play a major part in our progress. Ben is the fourth Super League player to join us in recent weeks and we expect more signings this week.”