Without his “leap of faith” quitting Huddersfield for Australia, Dom Young reckons he’d be nowhere near an England debut.
But the 21-year-old is set to jump into his international bow against Fiji on Friday after a brilliant breakthrough campaign in the NRL. Few people in Super League, let alone Down Under, had heard of the strapping winger when he left Giants for Newcastle Knights two years ago. Young had only played twice for his hometown club and admits it was a gamble moving to the other side of the world as such a rookie.
But he scored 14 tries in 20 NRL games this term to be catapulted into Shaun Wane’s World Cup squad. Asked if he thought he’d be in England camp if he’d not departed Giants, Young conceded: “I don't think so, no.
