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The Mole: Kiwi rugby 'fuming' after Roosters poach teenage Joseph Suaalii clone
By
The Mole
6 hours ago
The
Roosters have signed a
Joseph Suaalii clone from New Zealand - and Kiwi rugby union officials are fuming.
Tavita Henare-Schuster, a towering 20-year-old outside back from the Hurricanes, was being groomed for Super Rugby and the
All Blacks across the ditch.
But the Roosters have swooped on the youngster this week and put him on a development contract that could see him playing in the NRL within the next 12 months.
"The rugby union people had developed Tavita over the past few years and knew they had something very special on their hands," Henare-Schuster's manager Adrian Lepou told Wide World of Sports.
"But at the end of the day, he wanted to try his hand at league and when the Roosters came calling, it was an easy decision.