Willie Peters is the hottest candidate among the NRL head coaches-in-waiting right now. His all-conquering feats with Hull KR in the Super League have him at the front of the queue to be next onto the NRL coaching merry-go-round.

Pressure? For some, it may be. But not for a man who, as a teenager, had to live with the burden of being dubbed the next Peter Sterling by his then South Sydney coach, Craig Coleman.

“I wouldn’t change anything because it’s helped me now,” Peters says during an interview from the fields at the prestigious Harrow School in London after leading the Kangaroos through a training session.

“When I played, I got there quickly. I was only 18 when there was the Sterlo thing and all that sort of stuff at the time. So, you’ve got to learn from things that happen in your

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