Lockdown life doesn’t seem so tough to returning Wigan hero John Bateman after spending seven months in the NRL’s unforgiving playing bubble.
The England international - who has rejoined the Warriors after standing toe-to-toe with Australia’s best at Canberra - spent over half of last year restricted to contact with his Raiders team-mates and his girlfriend.
So strict were the rules, that after a mid-season shoulder operation that saw him stay overnight at hospital, Bateman wrongly presumed he was temporarily outside the bubble and went to a cafe.
When a supporter took a picture of him and sent it to the club, Bateman had to quarantine for two weeks, was handed a A$10,000 (£5,600) suspended fine and forced to front the NRL Integrity Unit.
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