Rugby Australia has bought a supremely marketable, freakishly talented player who will also be a powerful bargaining chip
rookie yet to make his first-grade rugby debut. If true, it is in excess of what all-time legends Dustin Martin, Nat Fyfe and Lance Franklin earn annually in the AFL, and more than the Australian captain James Tedesco and a marquee player Latrell Mitchell make each year in the NRL.
Is he 4000% better than other prodigies who fight through juniors, subbies and first grade to win a $40k Super Rugby contract? Many experts across union, league and athletics, sayPlucked from the hardscrabble Penrith suburb of Glenmore Park, he became a school boy star, leading a GPS first XV while in South Sydney’s Harold Matthews Cup side. Along the way, Suaalii broke Australia’s high jump record for 12-year-old boys.
Suaalii scored 15 tries from 19 games for the Roosters in 2022, made the NSW State of Origin squad and helped Samoa, his father’s native country, reach the finals of Rugby League World Cup for the first time. For rugby fans, though, it may prove frustrating to pay so handsomely for a once-in-a-generation sports car and then watch someone else drive it around for two years. But by 2025, after four seasons and 70 games of fierce NRL combat, Suaali will arrive as the complete package.
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