\u201cManny [Immanuel Feyi-Waboso] is a freak player! Our job as centres is just to get the wingers the ball, then they usually find the try line. With Manny, you\u2019ve just got to give him the ball and let him do his thing. You kind of just watch him, a little in awe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ikitau also highlighted the impact of Jimmy Roots<\/a>, praising the 129kg prop\u2019s temperament on and off the field. <\/p>\n \u201cThe energy that he brings into the team. Whether he\u2019s playing or not, he gives the same 100 per cent to the group and that\u2019s what you want in a teammate, someone who\u2019s willing to work hard and train hard for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n Exeter Chiefs <\/p>\n Cheetahs <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Exeter\u2019s young Welsh captain Dafydd Jenkins<\/a> earned similar praise.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s young, how old is he? 22 and he\u2019s our skipper! He\u2019s someone who leads with his actions. He played amazingly against Sale, and it wasn\u2019t about what he said but what he did on the field, he led the boys. That\u2019s impressed me.\u201d<\/p>\n Jenkins will again lead Chiefs<\/a> into this weekend\u2019s EPCR Challenge Cup<\/a> opener against Toyota Cheetahs, marking Ikitau\u2019s first taste of European club competition.<\/p>\n The outside centre admitted this is all new territory, but he\u2019s quickly finding his bearings.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited for the competition. A couple of months ago, if you asked me which competition was which, then I probably wouldn\u2019t have been able to tell you, but now, it makes a lot more sense and I\u2019ve got a better grip on the teams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Len Ikitau has barely had time to unpack in Devon but the Wallabies centre has already identified the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-303253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/103.png.webp\"\/)
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