A 26-year-old carpenter from Brisbane has been handed a accidental of a beingness with a fulltime declaration astatine the Cronulla Sharks successful 2022.
Hooker Jayden Berrell looked to person missed the vessel erstwhile it came to a vocation successful the NRL aft battling distant successful the Queensland Cup successful caller seasons.
But the crafty hooker won the Petero Civoniceva Medal for champion subordinate successful the Intrust Super Cup contention this twelvemonth - and that abruptly opened doors.
"Cronulla showed immoderate involvement and Jayden jumped astatine it," Berrell's manager, erstwhile dual planetary Mat Rogers, told Wide World of Sports.
"He was conscionable truthful determined to marque it. He would spell to the gym astatine the ace of dawn, past spell to work, past thrust from the Gold Coast to Brisbane to bid with his team, Wynnum Manly.
"And helium juggled each that with a woman and 2 kids truthful it's a fantastic story.
"(New Sharks coach) Craig Fitzgibbon has been fantastic to woody with and truly took to Jayden.
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"The information that helium got a woody astatine my aged nine Cronulla makes it each that overmuch sweeter for me."
A erstwhile Australian Schoolboy, Berrell is astir astatine location astatine hooker but tin besides play lock.
"Going from juggling shot successful with fulltime work, it is simply a large accidental for him and shows what hard enactment tin do," Rogers said.
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