What I mean is he would set up Roger on the wing more than Roger can do for Montoya, it's obvious he's just all about running.
Player Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
- Thread starter WahsaurusRex
- Start date
- Date of Birth
- Jun 5, 1993
- Birth Location
- Apia, Samoa
- Nationality
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 🇼🇸 Samoa
- Height (cm)
- 182 cm
- Weight (kg)
- 99 kg
- Position/s
- Fullback
- Centre
- Winger
- Nickname
- RTS
- Warrior #
- 203
- Warriors Debut Date
- Mar 5, 2016
- Warriors Debut Details
- 2016, Round 1, Wests Tigers
- Warriors Years Active
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2024
- Signed From
- Sydney Roosters, Auckland Blues (Rugby Union)
- Rep Honours
- NZ
- Awards/Honours
- Warriors Captain
- Warriors Player of the Year
- Golden Boot
- Dally M (Positional Award)
- Dally M (Overall)
- Status
- Active
- Rugby League Project
- https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/roger-tuivasa-sheck/summary.html
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Bay39er
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Fixed it for you
Thought he did well not to run into touch and stayed in in the weekend
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Pompey was doing flick passes/try assists to DWZ or going beast mode in the fightback against baby broncos last year lol, and he got passed once by Sloane by pure pace, otherwise no dumb fatal mistackles, and was an ironman playing every single game, I’d replace Berry with him at the stage of the season
hahahaha, what is the rocco berry award?!
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Roger Tuivasa-Sheck talks to the media about the review after the loss to Titans and fixing the team's defence.
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I guess you forgot the part where he tugged at Sailors jersey resulting in Montoyas try being disallowed in the final play that would have won us the game ….
Ya I remember that lol, Monty was going to be bundled into touch if jersey grab didn’t happen, but Pompey was the one that sparked the comeback.
Beastmode
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hahahaha, what is the rocco berry award?!
Rd 9 | Roger Tuivasa-Sheck: We have to fix our defence | NRL.com
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck talks to the media about the review after the loss to Titans and fixing the team's defence.
Get better.
New challenge.
Fix our defence.
Cliches galore.
Trust the Process Rog?
agree
Get better.
New challenge.
Fix our defence.
Cliches galore.
Trust the Process Rog?
agree
agree
and yeah definitely agree haha.
BUT!
what is the rocco berry award?!?!?
for sure seemed like some kind of inside joke.
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The untold story of how Tuivasa-Sheck accidentally delivered Manu to Roosters
Christian NicolussiMay 12, 2024 — 5.00amListen to this article
Sydney Roosters fans should be thanking Roger Tuivasa-Sheck for helping deliver Joey Manu to Bondi Junction.
Two of the nicest Kiwis you will ever meet were set to go head-to-head on Sunday afternoon at Allianz Stadium, completing the circle on a remarkable rugby league story, but RTS has succumbed to a hamstring injury.
Tuivasa-Sheck played on the wing when the Roosters won the premiership in 2013. He then joined the Warriors in 2016, switched to Super Rugby in 2022, where he played three Tests for the All Blacks, before returning to the Warriors this year.
Tuivasa-Sheck, now 30, but somehow still looks 17, revealed on Monty Betham’s Once A Warrior podcast late last year how the Warriors had shown him clips of Manu, the way he was given a licence to roam in the centres, and how that was what they had in mind for him.
Tuivasa-Sheck liked what he saw. Maybe Warriors supporters should be sending Manu a little thanks for helping seal the deal with “RTS”.
Anyways, back to the story about Tuivasa-Sheck and how he put Manu on the Roosters’ radar.
You have to go back to 2011, downtown Auckland, where the national secondary schools rugby league tournament was under way. Tuivasa-Sheck was the rugby star leading Otahuhu College, who went on to win the whole thing.
Manu, who was only 15 – three years younger than Tuivasa-Sheck – was a reserve for Tokoroa High School, a lowly bush team with his father, Nooroa, one of the assistant coaches.
According to Manu jnr and snr, there were rugby league scouts everywhere that week, just to catch a glimpse of Tuivasa-Sheck. Manu had heard about Tuivasa-Sheck, but was blown away by what he actually witnessed in the flesh.
Nooroa recalled Tokoroa being shunted to one of the back fields, well out of sight, when a player went down injured. Joey got the call to warm up.
“We were playing against Southern Cross, Joe was a reserve, he was only 15, we had an injury, we tried to find him, and he was kicking the ball with one of the coach’s grandsons,” Nooroa recalls.
“So Joe dawdles over, we sub him in for a centre, he comes on, the game is tight, and the ball comes to him. We were all like, ‘Joe, just don’t drop the ball’. But he dummies, beats the centre, then steps the fullback and offloads. He did those three things, had one more run, then we brought him off. He was on for about eight minutes.
“Then a scout who was in town for Roger, Peter O’Sullivan, came up to us after that game and said, ‘We think he’s got a future’. We were like, ‘Joe? He doesn’t even play league, he plays rugby’. They told us they were keen to fly him over to Sydney for games, and we thought they were kidding.
“He was doing well in rugby. League was played on a Sunday where we lived, and Sundays were for church. We didn’t believe the Roosters until the contract was emailed. That’s when we realised they were serious.”
Manu told this masthead during the week that had it not been for the interest in Tuivasa-Sheck, maybe, just maybe, he would not have been given the chance to spend more than a decade at the Roosters, where he has won two premierships and become a fan favourite.
“I’m glad they all came over to watch him [Tuivasa-Sheck] because I ended up getting picked up, too,” Manu says. “I actually remember that game I played at that tournament. I was up against big Islander boys. I was scared as, and I was as skinny as.
“I also remember watching Roger. Even when we got home, he was all over the news. He was the man. I used to record the games and watch his step. It was crazy to watch.”
Manu would fly to Sydney on school holidays and at Christmas. In 2013, he played more than half a dozen games in the Roosters’ SG Ball side. Nooroa would drive more than two hours to Auckland in the early hours of Friday, sometimes a Thursday night, put his son on a plane to Sydney where he would train at Matraville that night, play Saturday, then fly home Sunday.
In those early years, Manu played with Tuivasa-Sheck’s younger brother, Johnny. The pair, along with Latrell and Shaq Mitchell, as well as Angus Crichton, were part of the 2014 SG Ball side that took out the title.
“When I was in the under-20s, we’d train against Roger and the first team,” Manu says. “We’d get smashed. We were basically tackling bags for them.”
Like Tuivasa-Sheck, Manu is about to try his luck in rugby. He will join former All Blacks coach Ian Foster and coaching legend Steve Hansen at Japanese side Toyota Verblitz. The big dream will be to represent the All Blacks at the 2027 World Cup.
Nooroa was in Sydney when his son made the decision to leave the Roosters, and was providing quotes for a Toyota Verblitz press release. The love that immediately flooded online from Roosters fans reacting to the news was overwhelming.
“It was actually sad – it felt like a funeral with all the tributes,” Nooroa recalls.
Manu jnr has resisted letting his mind wonder just yet. He has been in regular contact with Hansen, who told this masthead last month, “he couldn’t say yes quick enough” when they got word Manu could be available. Hansen even referenced the great Sonny Bill Williams, saying: “Joey and Sonny are excellent athletes, and there’s no reason he can’t be a similar success.”
Manu and Tuivasa-Sheck caught up at Sydney Olympic Park earlier this season when the Warriors were preparing for a game, and the Chooks booked in for a one-day training camp.
“I spoke to Roger about the switch, what it was like, and he shared a few things, including what he enjoyed and the challenges,” Manu says. “I want to give rugby a crack. If I don’t do it now, I’ll never do it.
“Going to Japan with Steve and Ian Foster, I basically want to learn the game. That’s all I’m focused on. I’m not focused on what’s down the track and trying to play for the All Blacks. I just want to learn.
“I’m not nervous at the moment. It will be good; I know it will be. I’ll enjoy the Japanese lifestyle and be able to work on my craft. I’d love to be there with the All Blacks in 2027, but I want to do a few things before that. Hopefully they change the [NZR eligibility] rules.”
Those who want to pull on the famous Al Blacks jersey must be playing for a local franchise in Super Rugby. Manu’s deal in Japan is for 2025 and 2026, which still gives him time to prepare for the World Cup.
It would be another remarkable achievement that would make the whole family – Nooroa, mum Darnel, older brother Denzil, sister Tiare and younger twin brothers Kani (who plays for the Corrimal Cougars in the Wollongong competition) and Brooklyn (who is embarking on a church mission) – extremely proud.
For now, he has a real chance of bowing out of the NRL with a third NRL premiership ring.
If he does, Manu, and Roosters fans everywhere, might just have RTS to thank.
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He is now a winger at best!
I saw a comment on socials saying we have not won a game with RTS at centre. Turns out this is not true, but it's very close.
RTS 10 games in 2024:
In hindsight would it have been a better idea to start the season with RTS in NSW Cup to ease him into playing a new position?
At this stage it seems like he might be better utilized on the wing. Even if we don't have much evidence for that, it's probably the position we are weakest in that RTS could play.
RTS 10 games in 2024:
In hindsight would it have been a better idea to start the season with RTS in NSW Cup to ease him into playing a new position?
At this stage it seems like he might be better utilized on the wing. Even if we don't have much evidence for that, it's probably the position we are weakest in that RTS could play.
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Well we literally lost every single game when he was playing full time centre. The only "outlier" was the Raiders game where he ended up playing fullback and scored that heroic solo clutch try to seal the game
IMO the idea of trying him at centre was right, I supported it, but when the team is not winning and with only 9 games to go, he needs to be at fullback, or at the least wing, we know he's still a gun fullback, it's just about how to fit CNK and Taine in the side
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Wing switch an option as Warriors ponder RTS role
Warriors coach Andrew Webster concedes things haven't gone to plan with Roger Tuivasa-Sheck's move to the centres and isn't ruling out a switch to the wing in order to get him more involved.
Averaging just under 20 receipts per game, Tuivasa-Sheck's opportunities on the ball aren't far off those enjoyed by leading centres like Joey Manu (22.7 per game) and Valentine Holmes (20.6 per game), but his modest attacking output makes it clear that the 2018 Dally M Medal winner isn't being put in positions to show his full ability.
Through his first 11 games since rejoining the Warriors following two and a half years in rugby union, RTS has just one try assist, four line breaks and three tries to his name.
While he's named Tuivasa-Sheck to start at centre again for Saturday's clash with the Bulldogs, Webster says a move to the wing isn't out of the question in coming weeks if it helps his star recruit see more ball.
"I have been pretty open and honest that I don't feel like I have made it work as well as it could," Webster said when asked about Tuivasa-Sheck's development as a centre.
"The vision was to come here and get a player like that involved, get their hands on the ball."
"We've seen it in glimpses, haven't we?
"[Against the Broncos] I was impressed with his defensive effort, his tackles, he had some really good carries and got us out of trouble a couple of times with 15-metre runs.
"I just wish he had more opportunities to do it.
"That's part of my responsibility, to give him more opportunities to show what he can do.
"Nothing is out of the question... the wingers actually get more ball these days than the centres.
"We'll make sure we adapt when the right situation comes."
Tuivasa-Sheck was keen to avoid questions about his position of preference on the field this week, telling media that "centre is the position I'm given and centre is the position I'll play".
But the 31-year-old admitted to some personal frustration as he integrates back into rugby league and a role which is totally different to the one he reached peak form in as an NRL player.
"It's still developing for me. Changing positions changing combinations, it's very important that I try to keep up with what's happening," Tuivasa-Sheck said.
"On a personal level I'm trying to be the best I can, but I'm not quite having that [go] as well as I'd like to."
"This is my first year back with this team... I don't want to come in and try and overplay my hand and sort of ruin the flow the team has built over the last few years.
"I have got to bide my time."
With usual right centre Rocco Berry (shoulder) still at least a month away from returning, Tuivasa-Sheck's immediate future looks likely to be in that role alongside Dallin Watene-Zelezniak.
While that side of the field has typically been heavily targeted when Shaun Johnson is fit and available, in the Round 17 win over the Broncos the makeshift halves combination of Te Maire Martin and Chanel Harris-Tavita favoured the left edge and four of the Warriors six tries were scored there.
Martin said while he wouldn't be forcing the ball to the right for the sake of it, at the same time it's his responsibility to make sure Tuivasa-Sheck is used efficiently.
"If you can get him the ball then get him the ball; he's a freak. But we don't want to get away from doing what's best," Martin said.
"I need to work on ways where I can get him the ball. I've done a bit of video after the weekend and seen where I could have used Rog a lot smarter.
"It's something I need to work on, balancing out the field a bit more."
Will we see Ali come in then, with RTS to wing?
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