Warriors reject plays test rugby for Romaniawww.frr.ro Former Junior Warrior Stephen Shennan in action for Romania. Of his 34 team-mates in the Junior Warriors that year, nine would go on to play in the NRL, including Konrad Hurrell (Warriors and Titans), Ben Henry (Warriors), Siliva Havili (Warriors and Dragons) and Sosaia Feki (Sharks). Fast forward six years and Shennan is an international test rugby winger for Romania, and a virtual lock-in to play for the Eastern European nation if they make the next Rugby World Cup, in Japan, in 2019. A favoured sport of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu during the Cold War, state funding was poured into Romanian rugby during the 1970s and '80s. "I'm playing rugby and doing what I want to be doing – you can't complain about that."

Source: Stuff April 18, 2017 22:18 UTC