Lui could be back at Sharks soon
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Lui is back in Cairns for now, but has plans to return to Sydney later this year.
“They said there was just no point in staying down there while everything was being sorted, so I just came back home,” he said.
“It’s been so good, just being with mates and family.
“They’re hoping they can get me back down there after all this is done and play some local footy, or whatever is on, down there.”
With multiple competitions cancelled for the season, community rugby league could be the only option for Lui to get regular match experience in 2020.
The fleet-footed rising star has been keeping his training up while in Cairns, with the help of Northern Pride and former NRL-contracted players Gideon Gela-Mosby and Bernard Lewis.
“There’s a couple of mates and we train every afternoon, just around the corner from where I live,” Lui said.
Lui linked with Cronulla following his breakout 2019 season, in which he played for the CDRL’s Brothers Cairns, the Pride’s junior grades and led
Trinity Bay State High School to the NRL Schoolboy Trophy.
While playing at the Gordonvale Indigenous Rugby League Carnival in October, he tore his meniscus, which required surgery in the off-season.
“At the start, it was pretty hard, not being able to do much and not being able to play,” he said.
“I just got used to it and did the rehab and it got all better.”
Lui could be back in Sydney by July, with NSWRL last week announcing its plans to restart community rugby league competition on July 18, with training to commence from July 1.
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BRETT COSTELLO