Todd’s debut really should have come last season. But his rugby league rise was waylaid by two broken arms, one after the other, the first leaving him with an impressive eight-centimetre scar resting above a metal plate and 10 screws. By all accounts, the front-rower is a man of few words. And it turns out, a few bumps and bruises too. “Oh mate, I’ve had my share of broken bones,” he laughs. “Most of them aren’t from footy, just growing up on a farm, being a country boy, you get a little bit used to it.