They are the future of rugby league in this country, over 100 young pathways players destined to make it big in the NRL.<\/p>\n
While Parramatta and Wests Tigers are banking on rebuilt junior nurseries to solidify long-term success, several clubs have spread their wings across \u2018The Ditch\u2019 to poach highly-touted New Zealand rugby union prospects.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s that traditional rivalry between the rugby codes which is producing more young talent than ever – and rugby league is winning the battle.<\/p>\n
Kiwi teenager Rokko Walker, who is moving to Australia to link with St George Illawarra, has become the latest poster boy in the 100-year tug of war for footballing talent.<\/p>\n
But there are plenty of homegrown youngsters making names for themselves as NRL clubs grapple for signatures.<\/p>\n
* Click on the links below reveal the best young talent linked to NRL clubs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They are the future of rugby league in this country, over 100 young pathways players destined to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-293168","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\/293168","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=293168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}