Episode Details

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck joins Marc Ellis and Ric Salizzo on Herbie for Sportscafe Legends.

He's played for the Roosters, the Warriors, the Kiwis, Toa Samoa, the Blues and the All Blacks. This is his last NRL season before a two-year deal at Wakefield Trinity - and with a knee reconstruction behind him, he's watching the Warriors' run from the sideline rather than the field.

Roger talks about growing up in Otara, being coached as a kid by Eric Rush, ringing Rushy to tell him he was leaving rugby for league, and why he picked 12 when he came back to union.

Timestamps:

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Cold open
• 00:00:43 Welcome to Herbie
• 00:02:11 League fitness vs rugby fitness
• 00:02:53 Why he chose 12
• 00:04:31 Learning the game at first receiver
• 00:05:29 Eric Rush the junior coach
• 00:07:58 The phone call to Rushy
• 00:08:44 Why league suited him
• 00:09:53 Community and 40 memberships
• 00:10:59 The pathway out of school
• 00:12:05 A premiership in his second year
• 00:12:40 When he knew he had a gift
• 00:14:15 Getting knocked back
• 00:15:06 Blazers, kit and choosing union
• 00:17:32 Coming home to the Warriors
• 00:18:11 Saying no to mum and dad
• 00:21:39 Heroes: Rushy, Carlos, Benji
• 00:22:11 Eric Rush and the water slide
• 00:23:37 Watching this Warriors season injured
• 00:24:45 Two ACLs and the next surgery
• 00:25:36 All Black 1204
• 00:27:11 Wakefield, and letting go of the plan
• 00:30:41 His brother, LeBron and a PlayStation launch
• 00:34:15 The Herbie project
• 00:34:52 Otara was a village
• 00:36:42 What the travel cost him
• 00:39:15 What's changed at the Warriors
• 00:41:23 What it takes to win a premiership