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Sonny Bill Williams, pictured unloading in his latest game for the Roosters, is reportedly ready to help a teenage star make his transition to the NRL for the Sydney club.
Sonny Bill Williams has reportedly been asked to return to the Roosters to help guide teen prospect Joseph Suaalii.
Williams, who won a top spot with the Roosters in 2014, had a brief stint at the NRL with the Sydney club in 2019, but is now focusing on his boxing career.
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Sonny Bill Williams is off to a winning start in the third phase of his NRL career.
However, he has been asked to help with Suaalli, 17, transition to the NRL with the Roosters, according to Channel Nine reporter Danny Weidler in his Sun Herald column.
“SBW also met with Roosters president Nick Politis, who has always wanted the double international to have a role at the club after football. Politis wants it even more after signing Suaalii. The two will work well together.” Weidler wrote.
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Joseph Suaalii of the North Sydney Bears runs the ball during the NSW Cup test match against the Canberra Raiders.
Suaalii, who was courted by both rugby codes, scored two attempts for Roosters feeder club North Sydney in a recent trial.
You will need an NRL waiver to play first grade before your 18th birthday in August.
Some Sydney rugby league observers believe he will be granted the right to play at 17 due to his precocious talent, yet 74 percent of NRL club CEOs oppose the waiver, according to a survey in the Sydney Morning Herald. Thirty-six percent of the 23 respondents were in favor.
The result of the poll will not necessarily influence Australian Rugby League Commissioner Peter V’landys.
“He is potentially one of the best players of all time, and I don’t want to put pressure on the young man. If I were the CEO of another club, I wouldn’t want him to play either, ” V’landys told the Sydney morning herald.
Weidler wrote that Williams could be related to Suaalii because the Kiwi was an “exaggerated young superstar when he won a title with the Bulldogs in his NRL debut season in 2004, which means he has walked in Suaalii’s shoes.”
He said the kiwi, who is preparing for a professional boxing match, was spotted at the Roosters’ training ground last Thursday.
