Wests prop Gavet's triumph over adversity

By Daniel Lane
Updated April 20 2014 - 1:08am, first published 12:49am
Life-changing events: Wests Tigers prop James Gavet has gone from gang member to NRL player. Photo: Anthony Johnson
Life-changing events: Wests Tigers prop James Gavet has gone from gang member to NRL player. Photo: Anthony Johnson

James Gavet, the terror of the Wests Tigers forward pack, wasn’t joking when he said, had it not been for rugby league, he would probably be in the sewers deep beneath Auckland shovelling muck for a living.

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