When the Sydney Roosters signed Spencer Leniu from Penrith ahead of the 2024 NRL season it was widely assumed they were getting a like-for-like replacement for Jared Waerea-Hargreaves.
A junkyard dog of a front-rower who has skirted the boundaries between barbarism and legality, Leniu's time at Moore Park has been punctuated by more lows than highs.