MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 10: Suliasi Vunivalu of the Storm runs away to score his teams first try during the NRL Qualifying Final match between the Melbourne Storm and the North Queensland Cowboys at AAMI Park on September 10, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
Flying winger Suliasi Vunivalu has agreed to terms on a new deal with Storm, keeping him in the purple jersey until at least the end of 2018.
One of the game’s most exciting finishers, the 21-year old, finished on top of the try-scorers list in his debut NRL season, scoring 23 in his 23 games.
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2016 was a meteoric rise for Vunivalu who had only played 30 games of rugby league before making his NRL debut in Round 7 2016. scoring a double in a thrilling golden point win.
He repeated his feat in each of the next two games and extended his run to make it 13 tries in the first eight games. He also scored five doubles, two hat-tricks, bagged four against Manly in Round 24 and played in his maiden Grand Final against.