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Oliver Gildart will get his NRL chance - but Wigan Warriors matters need attending to first

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It is getting on for three years since Wigan Warriors Oliver Gildart began to seriously emerge on the radar of NRL clubs. He had just won his second Super League Grand Final when the call came from Wayne Bennett to make his England debut in a Test match against New Zealand at Hull’s KCOM Stadium.

Gildart’s searing 50-metre run past Dallin Watene-Zelezniak and Isaac Liu, en-route to scoring a glorious matchwinning try, confirmed he was a talent worth keeping an eye on.

Next season the 24-year-old centre will reportedly play down under after signing a two-year deal with Wests Tigers. Gildart will tread the same path a number of his close friends and former team-mates have taken in recent years, including fellow academy graduates Joe Burgess,

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