NAMO PAIN GAME

PROP Sylvester Namo has put a career of caring on hold to inflict pain on others instead.

- DAVE CRAVEN

The Papua New Guinea frontrow had been preparing to join the medical profession before getting a shot in the Queensland Cup.

And now, a few years later, he has travelled across the world after taking up a deal with Castleford.

Namo, 23, said: "I was going to be a nurse. I was doing my studies and about to do my nursing when I got the call from SP [PNG] Hunters to join them in 2021.

"So I couldn't do it as I went to the Gold Coast for two years and moved to Townsville last season.