The above may well be true for the casual fan. However, this a Broncos fan forum, most if not all are not just casual fans. Walker was definetly talked about on here before he signed with the roosters and there are even articles about him in the public domain in 2017/18.
1910 sees them, we know this because he will remind us years later. That does not mean people haven't heard about the young players at all, we just haven't seen them play.
This all stems from 1910 arguing that the roosters bought him before anyone knew about him, what more could they have done. Who even cares if we knew about them, the point is every NRL club was chasing him and the roosters got him AGAIN. How? Where's all the extra money coming from to win the battle for the most prized juniors over and over again? And to say that the roosters didnt and aren't just cherry picking juniors when they want is fanciful. Walker will potentially be playing NRL this year, and suuali too. They've been in systems and on NRL radars since they were PROBABLY (highlighted for 1910s benefit the word probably) 13 or 14 years old...