{"id":201048,"date":"2022-03-03T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T10:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=201048"},"modified":"2022-03-03T22:58:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T22:58:16","slug":"roosters-teen-star-no-lock-to-start-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=201048","title":{"rendered":"Roosters teen star no lock to start season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roosters teenager Joseph Suaalii has hinted that he won&#x27;t be hurried back into the team for Round 1, as he makes his way back from serious injury.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Your goal is to play in the first grade team but I&#x27;m not rushing, I&#x27;m just coming back from the injury at the moment,&quot; he said on the club&#x27;s website on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If I play round one, I play round one, if I don&#x27;t, I&#x27;m not too stressed about it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/australia-vs-pakistan-test-team-usman-khawaja-opening-ian-chappell-video\/f23c86b2-7779-4307-b1bd-2e124b6dc10d\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Chappell backs forgotten man to oust Khawaja\"><strong>Chappell backs forgotten man to oust Khawaja<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/roosters-joey-manu-on-latrell-mitchel-high-shot-south-sydney\/fbef0f7d-4982-47e5-84ba-04049407c9ac\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Manu spills on Latrell relationship after brutal hit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Manu spills on Latrell relationship after brutal hit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/indycar-2022-scott-mclaughlin-will-power-blue-flag-rule-change\/56335537-1a6e-4718-a533-f6dbe0868e18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"McLaughlin at odds with &#x27;unhappy&#x27; Power\"><strong>McLaughlin at odds with &#x27;unhappy&#x27; Power<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/sydney-roosters-joseph-suaalii-out-for-season\/aac8c32e-421a-4666-b1cd-2da56d58dd5b\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Suaalii was ruled out for the remainder of the campaign midway through the 2021 season\">Suaalii was ruled out for the remainder of the campaign midway through the 2021 season<\/a>, after suffering a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old took to the top flight like a duck to water, looking solid in the centres before his year ended prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I loved it, coming in as a young bloke, at the start, you&#x27;re kind of intimidated but now I&#x27;m friends with most of the lads,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Playing my first game in the NRL was a dream come true.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b276c34f-289f-44df-a0f9-cbc27408658f\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b276c34f-289f-44df-a0f9-cbc27408658f\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1547\" data-height=\"870\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Roosters have some depth in the backline this year with the additions of Paul Momirovski and Kevin Naiqama, albeit also losing the Morris twins, Dale Copley, and Matt Ikuvalu.<\/p>\n<p>The versatile Suaalii is happy to play anywhere &#8211; and although fullback is definitely spoken for this year, he could feature at either wing or centre.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A big thing this year is just trying to stay consistent, and just being on the field for the whole year.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Roosters teenager Joseph Suaalii has hinted that he won&#x27;t be hurried back into the team for Round 1, as he makes his way back from <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=201048\" title=\"Roosters teen star no lock to start season\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201050,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201048\/revisions\/201050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}