Holmes, who started the 2020 campaign at fullback, was shifted to the wing at times in a year hampered by an ankle injury<\/a>. He was also unable to secure the No.1 jersey for Queensland last month with Maroons coach Wayne Bennett moving Holmes to the wing for the decider.<\/p>\n Tabuai-Fidow, 19, this year put his hand up for the No.1 jersey when Holmes was out with injury. The speedster was scary in open space and could become a solution for Payten following a breakout year that saw him bag six tries from 14 appearances.<\/p>\n The rising star today revealed Payten had nominated fullback, along with centre, as the two preferred positions he will be focusing on this pre-season.<\/p>\n "Toddy came up to me and said I would be training as a fullback and centre for this pre-season so I have two positions I will be training hard for to try and get into the team for Round One," Tabuai-Fidow told NRL.com.<\/em><\/p>\n Queensland rugby league legend Sam Thaiday earlier this year claimed the Cowboys would be better to keep Holmes on the wing<\/a>, with Tabuai-Fidow to take on the fullback role.<\/p>\n "I'd love to see him [Tabuai-Fidow] play fullback," Thaiday told Wide World of Sports' QLDER.<\/em><\/p>\n "I think Val's a fantastic winger as well, so there's an opportunity for him to play on the wing. He can score tries, and you want your winger to be finishers and that's what Val is.<\/p>\n "He can do plenty of work coming out of trouble. I'd love to see Hammer at No.1."<\/p>\n Cowboys speedster Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow has confirmed he's in the mix for North Queensland's fullback spot as pressure mounts on Valentine Holmes to remain in the […]<\/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\/7892"}],"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=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7894,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions\/7894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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