“Hopoate is a star,” writes sports journalist Benjamin Everill today on NRL.com.
He continues, in his wrap-up of this year’s crop of rookie Australian rugby league players:
“His hamstring injury suffered in Origin was a huge shame. And it’s disappointing that after this year we won’t see him back in league until the 2014 season, after he completes a two-year Mormon mission.”
Everill’s parting comment is: “We respect his conviction and wish him all the best. (But hurry back, Will!)”
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