‘Learn to run again’: The brutal injury, pay cut behind Parra’s new cult hero – NRL.COM

Long before Isaiah Papali’i was charging through right-side defences like they were made of rice paper, he had to learn how to run again.
Long before the emerging cult hero with fuzzy wuzzy hair gave Parramatta fans warm and fuzzies on a bargain deal worth less than $200,000 a year Papali’i’s career was feared to be on the line before it had even started.
‘He had to completely learn to run again’
As one half of the first mother-son combination to play NRL, Papali’i’s “pram was always parked on the…

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