The Dolphins have finally won a battle against rugby league's big boys - over the race to sign the best 14-year-old in the country.Half the clubs in the NRL, including the Broncos, Titans, Rabbitohs and Tigers, were desperate to sign Kingston Seve - a youngster regarded by good judges as the next Joseph Suaalii.Souths and the Tigers even flew the youngster to Sydney from his Gold Coast home to show him around their facilities.But in the end, the teenager and his parents decided his future lay with Wayne Bennett and the NRL's new chums."He's an amazing talent and at 14 is already as big as Latrell Mitchell," Seve's manager Mario Tartak told Wide World of Sports."I've never had a kid on my books who was in so much demand."In Queensland, they regard him as the best young talent in the state, and Wayne and (Dolphins recruitment manager) Peter O'Sullivan were super keen to sign him, and that clinched it."Seve has been awarded a full scholarship to Southport School on the Gold Coast - to play rugby union.But his future lies in league and, once he completes his schooling, he will join the Dolphins in the hope of following in Roosters star's Suaalii's footsteps.
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