NRL Test: Kangaroos v Kiwis
Sport by Jasper Bruce 24th May 2021 2:41 PM | Updated: 3:09 PM
Warriors star Peta Hiku has signed a two-year contract with the North Queensland Cowboys, set to begin next season.
The Kiwi international joins Tom Dearden and Chad Townsend in migrating north for 2022 as coach Todd Payten looks to shape the Cowboys into a premiership force.
In a statement released on Monday, Payten said he had been impressed by Hikuâs versatility across his 147 NRL games.
Payten previously worked with the 28-year-old during his stint as the Warriorsâ interim coach last season.
âPeta is a smart and experienced centre who has also shown he can play fullback and in the halves,â Payten said.
NRL Test: Kangaroos v Kiwis
Sport by Jasper Bruce 24th May 2021 2:41 PM | Updated: 3:09 PM
Warriors star Peta Hiku has signed a two-year contract with the North Queensland Cowboys, set to begin next season.
The Kiwi international joins Tom Dearden and Chad Townsend in migrating north for 2022 as coach Todd Payten looks to shape the Cowboys into a premiership force.
In a statement released on Monday, Payten said he had been impressed by Hikuâs versatility across his 147 NRL games.
Payten previously worked with the 28-year-old during his stint as the Warriorsâ interim coach last season.
âPeta is a smart and experienced centre who has also shown he can play fullback and in the halves,â Payten said.
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The name Hopoate has been associated with good, bad and utterly horrific headlines in rugby league and Sydney life for almost three decades.
Family patriarch John, the mercurially talented winger who made his name with the Manly Sea Eagles and later the Wests Tigers, was never far from controversy during his 13-year playing career. While he played for Australia and NSW, he was also responsible Or, indeed, after he retired.
Through it all, his faithful wife Brenda stood by him, and held the family together as the couple raised 11 children together.
While most have remained on the straight and narrow and become rising sports stars in their own right, a few have also inherited their father s bad boy ways.
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