Little known facts about Tex Hoy.
His father was a world class sportsman in a sport bigger than RL - surfing.
His father was best friends with Andrew Johns in the days they were the two highest profile sportsmen in Newcastle.
Tex grew up playing RL in the backyard with Matt Johns' sons, Jack and Cooper, who are both now NRL players.
Tex was the youngest guy to get a Newcastle Knights junior contract at age 13. In his junior career he won a minor premiership in under 20s and represented NSW as fullback at under 20s level.
He has had a very similar junior career to Carlos Tuimavave - both played anywhere from 1-7 in champion junior sides - both made rep sides as juniors - both played a lot of 5/8 and fullback in Newcastle Knights reserve grade and both struggled to crack firstgrade, largely because they didn't specialise in any position. They are about the same size as well.
