How $3 ice cream sealed mega $1.5 million deal

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A $3 crystal pick was the clincher for the richest woody ever signed by a schoolboy rugby league subordinate past week.

The Bulldogs secured a coup by snaring Australian Schoolboys skipper Karl Oloapu connected a four-year deal, contempt having to wage a $500,000 transportation interest connected apical of his estimated $250,000 salary.

It's a staggering magnitude for a youngster who has yet to play against men - and it was each sealed by a Drumstick.

"The Bulldogs took Karl to meal and we were each sitting astir afterwards and the kid, being an 18-year-old, started to get restless," Oloapu's manager Matt Adamson told Wide World of Sports.

"I deliberation (Bulldogs coach) Cameron Ciraldo sensed this and helium said to me, 'Do you caput if I instrumentality Karl for a locomotion and an crystal cream'.

"I said 'Go for it' and 15 minutes aboriginal they came backmost and Karl had made up his caput to articulation the Bulldogs.

"He had different options but conscionable the information that Cameron wanted to get to cognize him one-on-one implicit an crystal pick and outline his imaginativeness for the kid proved the difference.

"It's a large accidental for Karl - he's had a unsmooth 12 months with what happened astatine the Broncos but successful the extremity the nine did the close happening by him by letting him go."

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