Wildfires Ueta Tufuga, Newcastle Herald, March 31, 2025

A minute with Ueta Tufuga

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00:00This is a minute with, with Mr Funga. What are your position? Inside centre. Your junior club?

00:06Masters and Red Star. Yeah your first memory of rugby union? Just cold mornings

00:10and then getting a playa after the game. Your favourite player?

00:15Artie Savere. Your favourite sportsman away from rugby? Probably Kirby

00:20Warren. Your favourite movie? The Notebook. Three people you invite to dinner?

00:26Kevin Hart, Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Steven Spielberg. And what would you feed them?

00:31Probably chop suey. Do you have a pregame meal? Yeah usually keep it pretty

00:37pretty simple. Probably like a bit of rice, bit of steak and some veggies. What

00:41attracted you to the Hunter Wildfires? My brothers played here before I did but

00:44um you know they told me about the lifestyle here being by the beach and

00:47stuff and it's not as busy as Sydney is so yeah just being in a nice

00:52beachy town is what caught me here. Which team out is likely to get you in the most

00:55trouble? Get me in the most trouble? Probably Phil Telelewa. And who's the one that's

00:59always got your back? Probably my brother Kirk. And the team to beat this

01:06year? Probably East. And what does a successful 2025 look like for the

01:11Wildfires? To win the whole thing. I think we've trained pretty hard so we can put

01:15ourselves in a good position to win the whole thing. That has been a Minute With.