signing a deal until the end of the 2026 season<\/a>.<\/p>\nAfter overcoming a calf injury, Pangai Junior is now in line for his first appearance when Rovers host York Knights at Sewell Group Craven Park on Friday.<\/p>\n
Peters previously worked with the 30-year-old in Australia and believes the powerful prop is yet to unlock his best.<\/p>\n
\u201cTevita will play this week if all goes well. He’s going to take time to build, but I’m looking forward to what he can bring,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what Tevita can bring to a footy team, and I’ve seen it first-hand. I was involved with Tevita at a younger age in the New South Wales representative teams, under-18s and under-20s.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s gone on and reached really high levels of the game, but has he reached his full potential?<\/p>\n
\u201cI know and strongly believe that at the back end of the year, we can help him and he can help us.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s not the finished product, he obviously hasn’t played for a long time. He still needs to get fitter, he’s grateful to be here, he’s working hard and his attitude is where it needs to be.<\/p>\n
“I can tell he wants it, and his actions are showing that. Let’s see how he goes after a number of weeks. I’m expecting a good performance this week, but I’m not expecting massive minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, influential forward Dean Hadley is back available after recovering from a head knock, while Jai Whitbread celebrated the birth of his son in the lead-up to last weekend’s fixture at Wakefield Trinity.<\/p>\n
Peters added: \u201cDean [Hadley] will be fine, he’s playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cJai [Whitbread] has had a little boy, they had him last week. Mum and baby are doing well, which is the main thing. He’s a happy dad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tevita Pangai Junior is poised to make his Hull KR debut this week after overcoming injury, with head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20372,5903,20370,101,20373,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-630829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-kr","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-super-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630829","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=630829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}