SAINTS captain James Roby will kick off the Mose Masoe 'Walk and Talk' challenge on Thursday as he joins the Warrington Wolves captain in signing a ball which has travelled to captains around the globe before it is returned to the former Saints Grand Final winner’s hands in July.

The ball initially travelled from Hull to Auckland, and following a period in isolation has been passed to Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Gold Coast Brisbane and Townsville, collecting NRL signatures before being flown back to the UK.

It will start the second stage of its journey to collect the signatures of all Super League captains, beginning at Saints’ Totally Wicked Stadium on Thursday where it will be signed by both captains before the game against Warrington.

The ball will then head to Wigan on the same night before being walked to Leigh and then Salford. It will then head to Huddersfield on the 19th, reaching Leeds and Wakefield on the 20 June.

It will reach Castleford on the 21 June and Hull the day after, before being stored safely away and handed to back to Mose on July 1 ahead of the Robins facing Hull FC in the Hull derby.

The ball will eventually be auctioned off as the ‘ultimate piece of modern-day rugby league memorabilia.’ Fans will be able donate to support the ball on its journey and importantly show their support for Mose and his family, whose lives were forever changed when he suffered a C4/C5 incomplete spinal cord injury last January which led to him being diagnosed tetraplegic.

The aim between now and July 1, when Mose will carry the ball out in front of the Hull College Craven Park crowd, is to secure 24,353 donations – one for each mile the ball will have travelled to return it into his hands.