LAST week it was former Dubbo Kangaroo Scott Burgess making the switch from union to league and now it has been announced that fellow representative star Hayden Tidswell has done the same.
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Tidswell was a standout for the Bathurst Bulldogs last season and went on to star for the Country Cockatoos in their Country Championships winning campaign.
But he has decided to move back to rugby league and back to his former club, the Cowra Magpies.
He played in the black and white of the Magpies in 2013 after he returned home from playing rugby in the Netherlands.
Last year, the Cowra local joined the Bathurst Bulldogs in the Blowes Clothing Cup, where he went on to represent the Central West and the Country Cockatoos, but this season he will return home where he will potentially play alongside brother Blake in the front row.
"He hasn't missed a training run, he rang me and told me to bring the papers before our first run," Cowra premier league coach Steve Sutton said.
"It's really good to have him on board, we had a good honest forward pack last year but we didn't have that giant - he'll bring a real physical presence.
"I'll probably start him on the bench early in the season, he's a proven rugby union player but he'll take time to get used to running the rugby league lines again," Sutton said.
The Magpies have also filled one gap left in the halves by Tim Holman and Jeremy Gordon with Toi Sepuloni from Haswell in New Zealand.
