After playing in the Australian Grand Final at the weekend it was thought Williams may go back to Union to try and make a play for a place with the All Blacks.

With this in mind he wasn't one of the 24 man New Zealand squad for the R.L World Cup, he has now changed his mind and Steven Kearny has removed one of the original squad and included Williams.
It seems that when Williams decides to do something everybody bows and scrapes to do his bidding.



"Sonny Bill Williams has been added to New Zealand's World Cup squad after belatedly making himself available.

The 28-year-old dual-code star was not included in the 24-man party named on Monday because of "other commitments".

However, coach Stephen Kearney confirmed Williams has now replaced Tohu Harris after his change of heart.

"I'm sorry for taking someone else's spot," Williams told BBC Sport. "Now that I'm in there don't expect anything other than a full-hearted performance."

If he was English and he replaced Carl Ablett, not sure very many would mind...

I'd kick myself out of a squad if he put his hand up. The man's a machine.

Watching the presentation for the NRL Grand Final he went down massively in my estimations.

When going to collect their medals they were also given a replica ball to present to a sick child stood to one side of the stage, before joining their team to celebrate. Each Roosters player too the ball, picked up his medal then presented the ball to the child. SBW refused point blank to take the ball, the event staff you could see were explaining to him what it was all about and he continued to point blank refuse.

I think the bloke as good a player as he is has some serious ego problems.

I maybe wrong but from my perspective the balls were for advertisement purposes only, and the little girl was giving out the winners rings. SBW bent down and gave the little girl a kiss on the cheek took his ring before taking his place with the rest of the squad who still had the balls with them. Although I do agree he seems to have a massive ego.

I think you was looking at someone else cos SBW bent down and kissed the girl and said something to her. He was the only one that did that

No it was at the other side of the presentation, once they had got their medals, it did not show the players giving the balls to the kids on camera.

It was not the little girl who was part of the presentation party but a line of kids on the other side of the stage.

If you look you see 2 members of the organisational team trying to explain to him what it was about but he point blank refuses.

what was the advertisement on the ball any chance there was alcohol brands on it? he does a lot of charity work and has been an ambassador of a couple of charities since he was 18. hardly say he has a big ego he stays at home with his family majority of the time, he just has strong morals.

Sounds a lot of balls to me.

Sonny (Not Sunny) does do a lot of work with charities etc, while it might be a front he seems keen to help where he can. If you do a You*:tube search for when Gould met Sonny, it goes through his life and his work with charities alike.

From one camera angle it looked like he said

'what time do you clock off, babe '

OK I'll go get my coat.

The ball was sponsored by an alcoholic brand which as Sonny Bill is a Muslim is against his religion so really the PR woman should be the 1 doing her homework on players beliefs also he was the only one who actually bothered to speak to the young girl in the wheel chair instead of kissing up to the sponsors

Not sure if I can post links, so I'll not, but if you go to a well known video sharing site, type in 'Gus Gould Sonny Bill Williams' you'll find a good 15 minute interview with the man. Really changed the not so high opinion I had off him

Surprised to hear about this given the amount of work he does for good causes.