There was a widely held view that Woods\u2019 attack on Slater galvanised the Queensland players as they rallied behind their under-siege coach to win the final two games of the series to lift the shield.<\/p>\n
Wane said his comments were widely being discussed among his England players and would be used as motivation.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh yeah, it\u2019s been mentioned,\u201d Wane said of his team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not on social media but my daughter sent it to me. My daughter is very protective of me, both my daughters. They were a bit pissed off. The players were as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll find out on Saturday, but if we do get that victory, it\u2019s going to be down to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woods also criticised the selection of AJ Brimson in the English side, giving the Poms little chance of knocking off the Australians with a player who \u2013 Woods claims \u2013 \u201ccan\u2019t make the Queensland team\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had lots of chats with AJ,\u201d Wane said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a champion bloke and he\u2019s trained so well. Things like that, we\u2019ve all got thick skin in this game. You can\u2019t be affected by some of these comments. He\u2019ll be fired up, but he\u2019ll have his own reasons, AJ. He\u2019s a great guy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a widely held view that Woods\u2019 attack on Slater galvanised the Queensland players as they rallied…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-230731","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\/230731","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=230731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}