LeagueNews.co | Cooper McEnroe
After making unknown winger Hendrix Tapiki their first signing last week, the Perth Bears have reportedly made another signing, landing an international representative from Papua New Guinea.
The Queensland Cup's Player of the Year for 2024, Wide World of Sports is reporting that international dummy-half Judah Rimbu has signed a train-and-trial contract with the Perth Bears for their inaugural season before being elevated to a full-time position.
Rimbu, who previously played overseas with the Castleford Tigers, will spend the upcoming year with the Easts Tigers (a feeder club of the Perth Bears) before transitioning to Western Australia the following year.
"I spent most of my time with my mum. My dad passed on, so my mum has always been my rock, and she's been my role model while I was growing up.
"We are six in the family, so she used to look after all of us and I look at her as my role model and I respect her as much as anything.
"I have to do it for my mum and my tribesmen in my country back in the village and my country as a whole.
"Every time in PNG, she normally comes watch me, cheer me on (and) she just watches me running around. The whole 80 minutes she just sits in the grandstand and crying but she's a happy mum."