Kenty

Look, he got... Yeah.

His last NRL game was 2022.

Then he got struck down with colitis.

He had a... Obviously...

It's a virus in your bowel.

He ended up having surgery and multiple surgeries.

He was in hospital for the best part of nine months.

Yeah, and then struck down with this, he's had a stack of operations where they've transformed his small intestines into the...

He's got larger intestines.

It's taken multiple surgeries to achieve that.

The doctors at one point, when he was continuing to ask how long until he could come back to rugby league, they said to him, look mate, this isn't about whether you can return to rugby league.

This is about survival.

That's how dire it got at one point.

But he wasted down to 62 kilograms.

So he really was in a bad way, but he never gave up on the dream.

were very, very good to him, stuck by him.

Saw him through his contract.

They finally released him and the Roosters picked him up.

And what they've done for him has just been outstanding.

He was talking after the game where...