 He is a strong and powerful hooker who has worked extremely hard in recent times to improve his set piece in partnership with hooking partner and fellow Wallaby Adam Freier.Polota-Nau was named in the Greater Sydney Rams squad for the 2014 and 2015 National Rugby Championship seasons but did not play for the team due to being required for the Australian national side.On 9 November 2017 Polota-Nau signed for Leicester Tigers in England's Premiership Rugby on a 2-and-a-half-year contract having previously played 146 matches of Super Rugby for a decade with the Waratahs and more recently for one season with the Western Force.