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Message: [QUOTE="Danoz Direct, post: 2711707, member: 8457"] [h=1]He's Officially Back: Caleb Timu[/h][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]Broncos Media Dept[/FONT][/COLOR] Mon 9th November, 03:44PM[COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans] CALEB Timu will return to the NRMA Insurance Broncos’ fold with a different outlook on life after completing a two-year Mormon Mission in the South Pacific.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]Timu began pre-season training with a group of NYC Under 20s graduates this week after two years out of the game to honour his personal religious faith.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]He was a very talented member of the Broncos’ Under 20s squads of Seasons 2012 and 2013, and represented the Queensland Under 20s in the back row.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]But it will be a very different life to the one he has just lived over the past two years.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]“I was based in Auckland in New Zealand, but part of our mission was the Cook Islands,” he said.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]“I actually spent about seven and a half months in the Cook Islands doing things.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]“It was a really good experience.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]“We were teaching the gospel, out on our push bikes meeting people and talking to them in the streets, and just trying to help people.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]“Basically it taught me the value of a person and that everyone has potential.”[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]Timu said the experience had also given him some focus as he prepares to have another crack at professional rugby league.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]The rangy try-scoring second rower joins young players like Jai Arrow, Jayden Berrell and Keegan Hipgrave in the early group back at training.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]“It (the mission) was actually one of the biggest drivers for me to come back and play footy again,” he said.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]“I didn’t know when I finished if I would do that.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]“But I am really excited now to come back and establish that passion again.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]“With the opportunity I have been given, I just want to come back and give it my best shot.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]“I know the club is an awesome place and I really enjoyed my time there before.”[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]Ipswich product Timu, now 21 years old, had attracted interest from rugby union but ultimately wanted to return to Red Hill and make up for lost time at the Broncos with his power game.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]Timu became well known in 2012 after he scored two barnstorming tries to secure the Maroons’ Under 18 team victory over the young New South Wales side in a State Of Origin curtain-raiser where fellow Broncos Anthony Milford and Kodi Nikorima were Queensland’s halves pairing.[/FONT][/COLOR] [LIST] [*]DOB: 22 February 1994 [*]Height: 190cm [*]Weight: 108kg [*]Position: Second Row [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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