Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\nIsaah Yeo to miss second Ashes test | 00:35<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no intention to cause any harm to anyone. It was an innocent like as it was, so a later meeting was called with the CEO, and I thought, let\u2019s go for a walk. Let\u2019s have a walking meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talked it through and he said it\u2019s probably best that we mutually part ways, and thinking back to it now, I didn\u2019t give it much thought, but when you know in your heart and your body\u2019s telling you it\u2019s time to go. It\u2019s like okay, I\u2019m happy with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t angry with it at the time. I understand it. It was hard, it was a kick in the guts, it was every emotion under the sun. <\/p>\n
Aussie stars react to Wembley triumph | 04:09<\/p>\n
\u201cBut looking back it now I feel like it was God just stepping in and saying, \u2018Okay Marty, it\u2019s time for you to put your boots down.\u201d <\/p>\n
Taupau admits he wanted to play on for another two seasons, be it in the NRL or in the Super League, but has since decided to retire from professional rugby league. <\/p>\n
\u201cI said to my wife even before all of this happened, that I\u2019ve got another two years in me because we have invested so much time and money into keeping my body in one piece and especially my brain,\u201d Taupau said. <\/p>\n
Ennis: “Brimson has to come in” | 01:57<\/p>\n
\u201cWe put out a few feelers and the feeder club that I was playing for at the time, Souths Logan Magpies with Karmichael Hunt. <\/p>\n
\u201cI reached out to him and said, \u2018I\u2019m keen, I\u2019m still in Brisbane and I\u2019m keen to play but we\u2019ll suss out the paperwork with the contractual stuff and then we\u2019ll go from there\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cSadly, but fortunately for me nothing came about. There were a few clubs that came in from England that tabled a few offers but I had a conversation with my wife about what\u2019s the best thing for our family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Axed Broncos forward Marty Taupau has broken his silence on his infamous liked Instagram Post aimed at coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24164,64,145610,63,689,145769,651,4428,115745,4579,115747,145923,129922,1208,2057,145766,145928,102503,14175,763,145924,145921,5094,145926,129914,32917,1736,4495,3583,677,145929,701,13391,130928,4571,61238,1314,82520,145927,47900,85,14869,145922,145925,145604],"class_list":["post-245338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-assistant-coach","tag-au","tag-aussie-stars","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-bargain-star","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-broncos-training","tag-chad-townsend","tag-clifford-joseph-hill","tag-coaching-techniques","tag-elijah-taylor","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-extension-talks","tag-feeder-club","tag-footy-manager","tag-four-year-deal","tag-fox-league","tag-infamous-tough-coaching","tag-innocent-mistake-led","tag-isaah-yeo","tag-karmichael-hunt","tag-martin-taupau","tag-michael-ennis","tag-new-zealand","tag-newcastle-knights","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-professional-rugby-league","tag-queensland","tag-reece-walsh","tag-rugby-league-ashes-live","tag-sandon-smith","tag-shaun-wane","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-gaffe","tag-social-media-incident","tag-souths-logan-magpies","tag-sports","tag-super-league","tag-tough-coaching-techniques","tag-walking-meeting","tag-wembley-triumphrugby-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245338","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=245338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}