Excellence chaser, world saver and hopefully not a boxer

Sonny Bill Williams is his own being, such is life when you are one of Aotearoa's most gifted athletes. The mere fact that SBW can juggle rugby, rugby league and boxing while saving the world and putting smiles on faces of children who have next to nothing puts SBW in rare air, rare air which allows him to do as he wishes.

Not while I'm here though. I've got it all figured out...

We know that SBW will now focus on Rugby Sevens, that much is clear. There's the Olympics later this year in Rio and we know that the opportunity to play Sevens at the Olympics is one SBW couldn't say no to. This means that we will see a lot less of SBW as he won't be in Super Rugby with the Waikato Chiefs and will be on the Sevens circuit, which runs up until late May, finishing in London.

Across the ditch it's widely believed that SBW will re-join the Roosters next season, after his shot at Olympic glory. SBW has been spotted a few times meeting Roosters boss Nick Politis and the two share a lovely relationship going back to when SBW returned to the NRL with the Roosters on a 'handshake deal'. So honourable and a nod to their close relationship.

There's two options for SBW at this point, well three if you include retirement as he could join the Roosters or he could stay with rugby. I'm definitely leaning down the Roosters path as I reckon that there's a mutual understanding between SBW and Politis about SBW's future. Every NRL club-boss would want SBW for as long as possible which would never happen while SBW is at his all-conquering/word-saving best, so a compromise would have been Politis' best bet at securing SBW's services again.

"Sonny, we need to get you back here. Roger's left, a few other lads are getting a bit expensive for us and we're struggling to win NRL rings"

"Yeah bro, I understand, but it's the Olympics ya know?"

"Alright, go get your fix and finish up at the Roosters after. What about the NZRU though?"

"We agreed on a World Cup and the Olympics, they're happy, I'm happy and now you're happy"

Do you know when the new broadcasting deal that the NRL just signed kicks in? 2017 #HowConvenient. With a lot more money to be thrown around the NRL once that deal kicks in, the salary cap should increase and given the salary cap jumped from (AUD) $5.8million in 2015 to $6.1million for 2016 (according to NRL.com), we can expect to see the cap jump up to $7million in 2017.

When you consider that a new broadcasting deal and a Rugby League World Cup are both in the diary for 2017, a year after the Olympics, the first Olympics at which Rugby Sevens will be played, you could say that the stars have aligned perfect for SBW.

Such is SBW's pursuit of excellence/winning stuff, I reckon SBW will try and seal a Kiwis World Cup spot at a Rugby League World Cup to be co-hosted by New Zealand. This could be seen as a chore for SBW and something that hinders his boxing career for example, but think back to the last Rugby League World Cup and the farce surrounding SBW's selection and then the miserable failure of the Kiwis in the final. Rectify that yucky taste on home soil? Yes please.

SBW could have a chip on his shoulder and will be eager to spread his gospel within the Kiwis, thus chasing World Cup glory. Times have certainly changed with the Kiwis though and they are now the world's best rugby league team (without SBW) so there's no guarantees for SBW and he'd need to prove himself just to make the squad, let alone a starting spot. That's similar to SBW's All Blacks career though and he's handled that with utter class.

The spanner in the works is his boxing career. I'm going to go all out and say that SBW's boxing career is now over, boom. His name will always make headlines with guys like Paul Gallen keen to fight him and we've seen how the NZRU for example ensured SBW could fit boxing into his calendar; there's certainly a possibility that SBW steps in the ring again.

Being a father and saving the world are time consuming tasks, leaving no room for boxing.

I think it's just that I don't want SBW to box any more.

SBW is 30 years old right now and will be 31 by the time the Rugby League World Cup is wrapped up near the end of 2017. At this point, I simply have no idea what SBW could do and a lot of it depends on whether he signs a one year deal with the Roosters or two/three.

I'm here to predict shit so I will say that he signs a two-year deal with the Roosters after the Olympics, plays in the RLWC and then heads to Europe to play rugby. Europe feels like it is calling SBW with European rugby in need of a player/man of SBW's ilk to take it to new heights. Europe also feels like the mecca for what SBW wants to do as a high profile athlete, as his recent excursion to Syria with UNICEF showed. Europe presents both sponsorship and goodwill opportunities that can't be found in Australasia, the perfect place for a older, wiser SBW to settle down.

Settle down for a bit as the only thing we know for sure about SBW is love for short-term deals.These are SBW's bread and butter, understandably so as he doesn't like to be tied down to anything for too long. Not that we can see any way as only a fool would suggest that SBW is doing this all off the cuff.