Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nNawaqanitawase has been in fantastic form in recent weeks. Picture: Cameron Spencer\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThis week and the last few weeks I\u2019ve come to the realisation it\u2019s going to be my last few (months) coming up,\u201d he said, leaving the door open for a possible return after his stint with rugby. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s been quite sad thinking about it because I love the club, I love the boys and just the whole environment. My family and I are really going to miss it, so I\u2019ve just got to make sure I enjoy every moment that I can.<\/p>\n
Manly beat Parra for Foran’s 4th win | 02:33<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been shown a lot of love and support from all fans, even ones that don\u2019t even follow the Roosters. So it\u2019s been a great experience for me, and I\u2019ve just got to enjoy it because it doesn\u2019t last forever.<\/p>\n
\u201cComing over to rugby league and just the NRL as a whole has super exceeded what I thought I was going to feel and be a part of. I\u2019m going to miss it every week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nawaqanitawase says his game has evolved significantly since his time in rugby. Picture: Jason McCawley\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Nawaqanitawase came to the NRL as an established star in rugby, but few people expected him to be the high-flying, offload king who can turn half chances into tries that will be replayed for years to come. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a different player to what I was two or three years ago now,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn a non-arrogant way, it\u2019s a bigger, better, faster kind of thing. I\u2019ve grown up a little bit, obviously learnt a lot physically and being able to do a lot more and just defensively as well. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve learnt so much and I know it will make me a better player wherever I go.\u201d<\/p>\n
– Martin Gabor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potential State of Origin debut in a few weeks looms for Mark Nawaqanitawase, but the game\u2019s most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,689,89155,30195,306632,4568,4430,306633,272277,763,2105,43,294634,6086,4415,4582,15695,155172,4484,6406,122801,49979,306636,673,44,306809,677,306807,306810,53253,159,13384,670,1080,11737,306631,41,39,42,40,306808],"class_list":{"0":"post-633382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","10":"tag-bondi-beach","11":"tag-cameron-spencer","12":"tag-career-truth","13":"tag-connor-watson","14":"tag-daly-cherry-evans","15":"tag-defection-talks","16":"tag-fantastic-form","17":"tag-fox-league","18":"tag-getty-images-inc","19":"tag-headlines","20":"tag-ideal-replacement","21":"tag-interim-coach","22":"tag-james-tedesco","23":"tag-jarome-luai","24":"tag-jason-mccawley","25":"tag-justin-lloyd","26":"tag-kieran-foran","27":"tag-laurie-daley","28":"tag-leg-amputation","29":"tag-martin-gabor","30":"tag-move-circle","31":"tag-new-south-wales","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-non-arrogant-way","34":"tag-oceania","35":"tag-offload-king","36":"tag-origin-hopes","37":"tag-real-possibility","38":"tag-rugby-league","39":"tag-rugby-league-world","40":"tag-sydney","41":"tag-sydney-roosters","42":"tag-team-tips","43":"tag-tigers-bombshell","44":"tag-top-news","45":"tag-top-stories","46":"tag-topnews","47":"tag-topstories","48":"tag-weeks-looms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633382","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=633382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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