Quote beefy1="beefy1"Josh Mantellato unlucky not to get a mention. Has been outstanding for the Italians. As far as I'm aware he's only made 1 NRL appearance.'"
He's also 26 or 27 years old.
He has had a remarkable career so far.
He never played elite level juniors. He was a Wyong Roos junior who became top point scorer in the Newcastle comp for 3 years in a row - then he paid his own way to play for Italy and got to train with some NRL firstgraders and improved enough to get a run in the Knights part timers, where he went on to be top pointscorer in the NSW cup for 2 years in a row, signed a contract for the knights full time squad, got one game of firstgrade this year where he scored a try and kicked 3 from 3, all from the sidelines.
In short, he was a park footballer who got a run for Italy, trained hard, improved his game, and finally cracked firstgrade as a 26 or 27 year old.
