League icon Phil Gould has declared there’d be no risk if Terrell May was to emerge as a smokey for the NSW Blues side.
May has been instrumental in the Roosters’ strong start to the season and Gould believes he could play a role if called upon by coach Michael Maguire.
“He’s very efficient, (there’d be) no risk in the world. It would be early in his career to do it,” he said on Wide World of Sports’ Six Tackles with Gus.
“Terrell’s a late maturer, Terrell May played in the same SG Ball squad as (Matt) Burton, Stephen (Crichton), Sean O’Sullivan and those sorts of players. He was never in the main side.
“I didn’t mind him and then I left (the Panthers) and somehow he fell out of favour with rugby league and fell out of love with rugby league and took some time off and came back and played with Blacktown and somehow found his way to the Wests Tigers and that didn’t work out and somewhere the Roosters picked him up.
“He was always going to be a late maturer and he’s grown, he’s a hulk, he’s 114 to 115kg, he’s very, very strong.”
May made 17 appearances for the Roosters last season, spending the rest of his time playing with former feeder club the North Sydney Bears.
Gould added there was an insane statistic to come from the forward’s cameo in the lower grades that makes him “Origin tough”.
“Interestingly last year in the NSW Cup … he never missed a tackle all year, not one missed tackle, not one ineffective tackle and he’s getting better at his ball-running,” he said.
“He’s Origin tough, the occasion wouldn’t scare him.”
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