Quits New Zealand Rugby Union

rlhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/rugby/wires/07/09/2080.ap.rgu.sonny.bill.williams.japan.850/index.htmlrl

and isn't Rhinos bound.

Israel Folau is also rumoured to be looking at returning also

Returning to the NRL, most likely to the Sydney Roosters

rlhttp://www.zerotackle.com.au/sonny-bill-confirms-nrl-return-6484/rl

The Folau is tweeting he is happy at the Giants

Very nice

With SBW set to earn £1.3M a year I can't really see him ever wanting to earn £200K (tops) in a wet and cold SL.

SBW is in sport purely for the money it seems. Even if he does rejoin the NRL, it will be for one year only and probably largely to promote his boxing career. Sadly he has listened far too much to what Mundine has to say.

Isn't that why most of go to work - for the money - why do we expect sportsmen to behave differently to how we would? Their career is very short and at the end of it SBW will have made more money than most and more money than he would have he had remained in the NRL.

And in truth, is still arguably one of the best players in the game of either code.

Not something too players could ever have said.

i watch the chiefs every week to see how sonny is doing over there and hes the best in the world in union, but he was never close to being the best in the nrl he had huge potential but he was allways injured. I also think he will have a shock when he goes back to the nrl at the moment hes got it cushy in union and looks to have lost alot of pace and on the weekend he was blowing up.

At least he'll be able to hit people in the face with his shoulder again and won't have to bother using his arms in the tackle.

He's like a bottled explosion in union, you don't get the full fat SBW experience - semi-skimmed at best.

People can go where they like and do what they like when it comes to work. Good for him, good for the NRL marketing people.

I forgot about his boxing - isn't he NZ heavyweight champion or something like that?

Sadly, you appear to have listened far too much to what white Australian views have to say on the matter.

My issue with SBW is solely down to how he shafted his teammates and fans on leaving the Dogs mid-season, whilst preaching loyalty and claiming the issues were all the fault of the Dogs. Mundine's an idiot full stop, just as many 'white Australians' are.

You're the one who's raised race - maybe you're the one with the issue? Especially since you have absolutely zero idea about who I 'listen to'. Don't let that chip on your shoulder get any bigger if it's going to make you start calling people racist with zero evidence.

Jamie Lyon did the very same at Parramatta. Your silence on that is deafening BTW. Feel free to target your angst towards SBW instead however.


In your opinion and the opinion of funnily enough... many white Australians. If only he was an idiot, a racist idiot and a druggie like Andrew Johns for instance. He might be perceived as a legend instead? Or perhaps not.


How convenient. Yes, many of them certainly are.


Thanks for the lesson in projection.


Chips on shoulders? You mean like erm... Mundine... for instance?
Whatever floats your boat.