Report: NRL Superstar Roger Tuivasa-Sheck Set For Code Switch To Chase All Blacks Dream
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Report: NRL Superstar Roger Tuivasa-Sheck Set For Code Switch To Chase All Blacks Dream
National Rugby League superstar Roger Tuivasa-Sheck is set to quit rugby league and chase his dreams of representing the All Blacks.
According to a report in the Australia Daily Telegraph, Tuivasa-Sheck will leave the Warriors at the end of 2021 in order to sign a deal with New Zealand Rugby and the Blues.
He will play out a final season in the NRL before joining the Blues ahead of the 2022 Super Rugby season according to the report. The report goes on to state that nothing has been signed yet but the Warriors are privately resigned to Tuivasa-Sheck’s impending departure.
The NRL superstar's contract with the Warriors expires at the end of next season but the club have told him that they won’t stand in his way of an early exit but it is understood they have inserted a clause in the 27-year-old’s contract that he must return to the club should he play in the NRL again.
Tuivasa-Sheck considered switching codes at the end of 2020 season and held talks with the All-Blacks and Blues but they were unable to match his $1 million-plus salary.
Tuivasa-Sheck attended Otahuhu College in Auckland, where he played both rugby union and rugby league. He went on to represented the New Zealand rugby union schoolboy team and captained Otahuhu College at the New Zealand Rugby League's Secondary Schools tournament in 2011 before being signed by the Sydney Roosters in October of that year.
The speedster with a hot step played in the back three at youth level for the Blues but may well feature in the centres if he does complete his switch in 2021.
