Back-up Blues hooker Api Koroisau won back Brad Fittler’s trust through a heart-to-heart and superb on-field form after fearing his COVID bubble breach had ended his Origin hopes for good
Back-up Blues hooker Api Koroisau won back Brad Fittler’s trust through a heart-to-heart and superb on-field form after fearing his COVID bubble breach last year had ended his Origin hopes for good.
“It was cleared up last year,” Fittler said. “He’s paid a big price for that one. State of Origin is still about what you do on the field. We do push a hard line I think with their behaviour because we represent so many people. It’s about being a role model.Nine Koroisau himself thought his Origin tally would never move beyond the 22 minutes he played off the bench in last year’s dead rubber, given the NSWRL’s reaction.He said he and Fittler had already discussed the matter since entering camp on Sunday, with Koroisau to act as Damien Cook’s understudy throughout the week before a planned club return for Penrith’s Friday night clash with Canterbury.“Definitely, I thought that was the end of it for me,” Koroisau said. “I thought that was it.
NSWRL chief Dave Trodden backed Fittler and selector Greg Alexander’s judgement on Koroisau’s return, with the latter’s feedback as a Panthers board member putting the state governing body at ease.
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