{"id":22473,"date":"2025-07-26T01:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/22473\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T01:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:32:11","slug":"suaalii-backs-marky-mark-to-become-a-dual-international-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/22473\/","title":{"rendered":"Suaalii backs ‘Marky Mark’ to become a dual international – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The favourite to win the 2025 Dally M Rookie of the Year award, Mark Nawaqanitawase<\/a> has earned the backing of Joseph Suaalii<\/a> to soon become a dual-international.<\/p>\n

Since switching codes from the 15-man game to the NRL<\/a>, Nawaqanitawase has taken the competition by storm and easily been one of the Roosters best players in attack with 13 tries and 14 line-breaks in 14 matches – this included a ‘Try of the Year’ candidate against the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

Already making 11 appearances for the Wallabies between 2022 and 2023, the 24-year-old who can play either on the wing or in the centres could become the latest individual to become a dual-international and is eligible to represent both Australia<\/a> and Fiji<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is understood that he was nearly selected for the Fijian international team to play in the 2024 Pacific Championships<\/a> against the Cook Islands<\/a> and Papua New Guinea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While their paths only crossed for a limited time at the Roosters, rugby union convert and Wallabies star Joseph Suaalii<\/a> has backed “Marky Mark” to play international rugby league.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, one hundred per cent. I feel like whatever he wants to do in his life, he can do it,” Suaalii said via AAP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You can see his athletic ability, his natural instinct, the way he can offload and run the ball.<\/p>\n

“There’s all these different things he can do on a league and rugby field, so the sky’s the limit for Marky Mark.<\/p>\n

“I had the pleasure of playing one game with him (at the Roosters in 2024) and he’s picking up the game so quickly.<\/p>\n

“I think the greatest thing he has is he wants to learn and he’s a quick learner too. Honestly, it looks seamless the way he’s doing it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The favourite to win the 2025 Dally M Rookie of the Year award, Mark Nawaqanitawase has earned the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-22473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}