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<\/a><\/p>\nKennedy confirmed this week his management had met with officials from the breakaway rugby competition, as one of several NRL players linked to the lucrative league.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old played a limited amount of school rugby and sevens football while in Bathurst, before joining Cronulla and making his NRL debut in 2019.<\/p>\n
“I’ve watched a couple of rugby games and it looks pretty fun for the outside backs,” Kennedy said. <\/p>\n
“Maybe not towards the middles. <\/p>\n
“It looks like a good game. I’ve only played it in school and stuff.”<\/p>\n
But asked by AAP if there was a genuine interest in leaving the NRL to play in the R360 competition, Kennedy responded: “No, not really”.<\/p>\n
Kennedy has also ruled out a move to England, saying staying in the NRL is his priority given his partner is due to give birth to their second child in December.<\/p>\n
But he said he was not stressed by the situation, while still holding some hope a deal would be reached at Cronulla.<\/p>\n
“Some other people, they’d be pretty stressed out about it,” Kennedy said.<\/p>\n
“But I’m a pretty cruisy fella and I just think whatever happens, it’ll work out and whatever falls in place, I’m a happy man. <\/p>\n
“Hopefully by the end of the year we can sort something out because I want to stay here at the Sharks.”<\/p>\n
Cronulla do have decisions to make after re-signing centre KL Iro and hooker Blayke Brailey long term in the past week.<\/p>\n
Cameron McInnes, Jesse Ramien, Toby Rudolf, Braden Hamlin-Uele and Siosifa Talakai remain among a host of talent off contract at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n
Talakai has declared a preference to stay, with Cronulla adamant he has not been given permission to look elsewhere after speculation that was the case last month.<\/p>\n
“The club reassured me, Fitzy (coach Craig Fitzgibbon) reached out. They said it’s just all speculation,” Talakai, a former NSW State of Origin representative, said. <\/p>\n
“I’d be more than happy to stay here. This is my home, this the team that gave me the opportunity in the NRL. I owe a lot to them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cronulla fullback Will Kennedy says he has no real interest in joining rebel rugby competition R360, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-131554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}