To suggest he’s going to a full international by the end of next season doesn’t say much about the state of English RL centres.
He might not need to lose weight but he will need conditioning. Union players are a different shape and on average bigger men. Which isn’t an issue with a more stop start game.
Whatever happens we can’t judge him this season. He will play the odd game to get his belly wet.
Fingers crossed it works out. Would be good for the game to have cross code converts coming the other way.