Storm giant 'waiting' for Jones' Wallabies call

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Melbourne Storm's Nelson Asofa-Solomona says helium would powerfully see playing for the Wallabies if he's offered a accidental to power codes.

With caller Wallabies manager Eddie Jones declaring his intentions to poach endowment from the NRL to bolster Australian rugby's stocks, Asofa-Solomona, 1 of the biggest NRL names disconnected declaration astatine the extremity of this season, could beryllium a imaginable people fixed his rugby background.

The Melbourne prop adjacent met with Wallabies manager Dave Rennie erstwhile issues relating to his vaccination presumption threatened to derail his NRL career.

"Obviously I've been astatine the Storm for specified a agelong time," Asofa-Solomona told the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

"Coming from a rugby national background, I've ever been enticed to spell backmost to rugby astatine immoderate stage. Just seeing the endowment we person got astatine the Storm and the aboriginal they have, the Storm is successful bully hands adjacent if I leave.

"I'm not excessively definite what I privation to do, I alteration my caput each day.

"It's hard to accidental [if I would articulation the Wallabies]. I'd beryllium silly not to see each my options."

Asked if Jones had reached retired since his assignment arsenic Wallabies coach, the 26 twelvemonth aged said: "Eddie hasn't been successful interaction yet. Obviously I've seen the headlines and worldly similar that, I'm getting a spot of instrumentality astir the club.

"I'm inactive waiting for a telephone call."

Jones has a way grounds of luring league players to the 15-man game, erstwhile helium brought implicit Wendell Sailor, Lote Tuqiri and Mat Rogers successful his archetypal stint successful the job.

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One of Asofa-Solomona's champion friends is erstwhile Storm teammate Suliasi Vunivalu, who has completed his ain power to the Queensland Reds and the Wallabies.

The Storm are keen to clasp Asofa-Solomona, nevertheless the man-mountain said helium would see alternatives.

"Rugby league is conscionable getting faster and faster. They support changing the rules," helium said. "They are benignant of rubbing the large men retired of the game. It is what it is, you person to accommodate to those challenges. The NFL is an option. Back successful the time I had an accidental to spell to the NFL.

"In saying that the NFL is specified a process, it's not conscionable 'go to the NFL'."

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