NRL Don't miss out on the headlines from NRL. Followed categories will be added to My News. Rugby league has landed another hammer blow on rugby union after flying teenager Callum Grantham agreed to a long-term deal at Cronulla - but a bigger battle is looming over another teenager regarded as a future superstar by both codes.
Sport Confidential understands that Grantham - a Waratahs under-16 representative - and his agent Michael Hudson agreed to a four-year extension with the Sharks after he starred this season for their Harold Matthews Cup (under-17s) side. The goal-kicking five-eighth was also a star in the junior athletics ranks, competing at national level over the 200m and 400m. Young Shark Callum Grantham and fellow Newington College student Haemeasi Makasini, who has re-signed with the Wests Tigers.
Picture: Instagram Heinz Lemoto playing for Australia U18s. Picture: Phil Walter/Getty Images A schoolmate of Wests Tigers teenager Haemeasi Makasini at Newington College, Grantham took this year off rugby union to focus on rugby league and he has been rewarded with a new deal that will see him transition into the Sharks’ senior ranks in years to come. As his future is settled, the battle for Penrith teenager Heinz Lemoto is set to begin in earnest.
Lemoto, who is about to enter the final year of his contract at the Panthers, played alongside Makasini for the Australian schoolboys rugby union side that beat New Zealand a week ago. Rugby union is already circling the tee.
