Unwanted at Wigan, Umyla Hanley was a little-heralded Leigh signing almost four years ago, but he is now established as one of Super League’s best backs. “He’d already bought his steel toe-cap boots and he was ready to let rugby league go altogether,” Lam revealed last year. “I left Wigan and didn’t have a team to go to,” Hanley now tells Rugby League World. I went from playing every week, to playing first team, to playing nothing. First published in Rugby League World magazine, Issue 523 (August 2026)