The Sydney Roosters person discovered their ain flying Fijian - and helium could beryllium playing successful the NRL arsenic soon arsenic adjacent season.
Vuate Karawalevu, a speedy winger with the Fijian flair for scoring tries, started the play with the Kaiviti Silktails successful the Ron Massey Cup but soon joined the Roosters' Jersey Flegg side.
"He is from rugby national and scored 4 tries successful his archetypal crippled of league earlier this year," Roosters recruitment brag Daniel Anderson told Wide World of Sports.
"I primitively got sent imaginativeness of him successful 2019 and made him an connection due to the fact that I could archer helium had thing special.
"But helium rejected maine and joined the ACT Brumbies. Then COVID deed and that was the extremity of that.
"So helium joined the Silktails and came to america from determination and has been a sensation successful the little grades.
"Every squad we play, aft the game, the absorption manager volition travel up to maine and accidental 'Where did you find that kid?'
"He truly is large to ticker but helium is lone 20 and inactive raw.
"He's good successful beforehand of wherever we thought helium would beryllium and but for COVID would beryllium grooming successful the bubble with the archetypal grade.
"He volition get his accidental grooming with them implicit the off-season and from there, you ne'er know…"
The NRL has a agelong contented of assemblage pleasing Fijian wingers, starting with Noa Nadruku successful the 1990s, who was followed by the likes of Akuila Uate, Semi Radradra and much precocious Maika Sivo.
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