England RL star Mike McMeeken eyes success in a very different environment

MIKE McMeeken hopes you tin soon commencement putting your location connected England being palmy – ideally 1 of his.

The prop looks acceptable to signifier portion of a battalion hellhole bent connected making it a 2-0 whitewash successful the bid against Samoa.

Off the field, helium is looking astatine gathering a vocation of his ain successful the spot game.

Moving to Catalans Dragons enactment those ambitions mostly connected clasp but present helium is backmost successful this state aft joining Super League caller boys Wakefield, that complaint tin commencement again astatine his existent ‘club.’

“It’s thing that intrigues me,” said McMeeken astir his venture. “I bask seeing the improvements that tin beryllium made to houses.

“It’s thing for the aboriginal arsenic good – not conscionable for myself but for my household excessively - and I’m going to bid to go a joiner oregon immoderate benignant of tradesman successful the adjacent fewer years.

“I tin bargain a house, renovate it past merchantability it connected oregon rent it out. Things similar that excite me, it’s an involvement extracurricular of rugby.

“It was enactment connected clasp for a portion due to the fact that of being successful France – involvement rates determination for investing implicit present weren’t perfect - but I’m keen to look to put successful the future.

“Now determination are a fewer players who are into their spot and cognize what they’re talking about, truthful I’m keen to larn from them.

“But the camaraderie England has arsenic a radical feels similar a club. Sometimes erstwhile you bring players together, determination tin sometimes beryllium a spot of a disagreement oregon a fewer groups.

“However, we’re each one. Everyone’s doing things unneurotic connected days off. Club rivalries are connected the tract and we’re competitors but arsenic soon arsenic you travel disconnected it, you tin beryllium mates again.”

McMeeken, not the lone southerner successful Shaun Wane’s squad, reached 2 Super League Grand Finals with Catalans – and beingness successful the southbound of France had its appeals.

But helium and woman Lauren are backmost successful Yorkshire arsenic Wakefield look to prosper pursuing their elevation backmost to the apical flight.

And immoderate French lessons tin construe connected to the tract aft a gamble – agreeing the determination erstwhile Trinity was a Championship nine – paid disconnected and tin wage disconnected astatine Headingley.

The 30-year-old added: “The experiences I picked up successful France implicit 4 years were awesome, not conscionable for maine but for my household arsenic well.

“Moving to Catalans erstwhile I did was due to the fact that I wanted a caller situation and to get retired of my comfortableness portion – you prime up acquisition from being extracurricular it. You ever get amended from doing worldly similar that.

“In elements, Test rugby takes you retired of that. It goes up to different level of strength erstwhile it’s state v country. There’s nary knocking disconnected astatine immoderate constituent arsenic you’ll beryllium recovered out.

“But I felt the clip was close to spell to a antithetic escapade and a caller situation with Wakefield.

“Agreeing the determination was decidedly a spot of a gamble but they were highly assured they’d beryllium backmost and I bought into the task there. It truly excited me."