Gale is the fourth off-season signing for the Airlie Birds, who have already added Fiji internationals Kane Evans and Joe Lovodua, and England Knights winger Darnell McIntosh as they look to improve on last season's disappointing eighth-placed finish. Atkinson, who was voted the winner by her fellow Superleague coaches, follows in the footsteps of the 2019 holder, Sara Francis-Bayman.The Superleague is packed with young talents, butFunmi Fadoju last week ahead of their World Cup qualifiers against Kazakhstan and Finland. It was something of a mixed day for Cunningham on Sunday, who was sin-binned for the first time in her career after preventing the Rhinos taking a quick tap restart early in the first half but returned to the field to score a sensational try which put her side 10-0 up at half-time.