Many may have thought Viliami Fifita might have been given an insight into what a gruelling pre-season looks like given his older brother has been a regular at Titans HQ since 2021.<\/p>\n
But instead, the young gun has been given the tough love treatment from Jojo, showing nothing is given in the top grade with everything needing to be earnt; that mantra how Fifita has become a household name as one of the most powerful outside backs in the competition, now 58 games into his career.<\/p>\n
Viliami is one of a handful of Future Titans spending the next few weeks training with Gold Coast’s NRL squad – an exciting, mobile front rower who has approached his maiden experience in a full-time system with some nerves but plenty of enthusiasm.<\/p>\n
Boasting a surname synonymous with the Titans and as another offspring of one of the toughest competitors to play elite rugby union – the son of Tongan International Pila Fifita – his family ties and ethos has allowed the next generation forward to be physically and mentally ready to take the next step up in his rugby league career.<\/p>\n
It’s that same family toughness why Jojo hasn’t given him any leg ups ahead of his first pre-season at Parkwood, but it’s also allowed him to be ready to match it with the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So when asked who was he keen to train alongside, Viliami had only one answer.<\/p>\n
“Tino,” he told titans.com.au.<\/p>\n
“I know he is going to give it to me, but I have just got to try and cope with it.”<\/p>\n
It shows a great attitude to want to take on one the biggest names in the team and challenge himself.<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old also spoke of the preparation his family had provided to get him ready for the next stage in his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It has been some tough sessions (getting ready for my first pre-season with Dad)… he’s pretty full on but it’s in a good way,” Fifita said.<\/p>\n
“He does it all for us and without him, I don’t think we would be in the place we are today.<\/p>\n
“He’s done a lot for us through teaching us the ways of how to be a good player, be a good role model, and then also how to get better on and off the field.”<\/p>\n
Viliami may not be in the top squad yet, but he is a player to keep an eye on for years to come and one thing is for sure, he’ll be ready to take the next challenge when it comes.<\/p>\n
Locked in until 2029, Fifita junior will spend the next few weeks completing his first NRL pre-season before continue to be part of the Future Titans whilst still at school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many may have thought Viliami Fifita might have been given an insight into what a gruelling pre-season looks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-294748","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\/294748","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=294748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}