Here’s the truth about how the Sydney Roosters orchestrated one of the great recruitment coups by poaching teenage superstar Joseph Suaalii away from the grasp of arch rivals South Sydney.
As far as big signatures go, the Roosters’ Suaalii play ranks right up there with all of Uncle Nick Politis’ best gets including Cooper Cronk, Sonny Bill Williams, Brad Fittler and Phil Gould.
What made it even sweeter, Suaalii had been in the South Sydney system at Redfern since age 14.