{"id":312724,"date":"2025-11-27T18:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312724\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:55:22","slug":"brisbane-broncos-star-kotoni-staggs-speaks-amid-r360-defection-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312724\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Broncos star Kotoni Staggs speaks amid R360 defection rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou hear all those things and see it all out there, but I\u2019m just letting Payne do his thing,\u201d Staggs said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever he picks, I\u2019ll be there to support him and whatever he goes to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat he\u2019s done in this game is massive given how old he is as well, what he\u2019s done every week in a Broncos jersey, he left it in a good way if he does leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Haas is not due back to preseason training until the new year, having partaken in Samoa\u2019s charge to the Pacific Championship final, and Broncos chief executive Dave Donaghy insisted they would not launch comprehensive extension talks with their star middle until he returned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPayne knows how we feel. We\u2019d love for Payne to stay. He\u2019ll take his time to work his way through it, there\u2019s no set timeline for us to do that,\u201d Donaghy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s had a big year, and I\u2019m sure he wants to take a bit of time and reflect on what was an amazing 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he gets back, we\u2019ll have those conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The money on offer could prove too tempting for Haas, particularly given he has a young family, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5my0l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with younger brothers \u2013 Hans and Geejay \u2013 also living with him.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But an unwillingness to uproot his family, with Hans and Geejay linked to the Broncos\u2019 junior development academy, could be a factor, as could the chance to build a legacy to rival that of the club\u2019s 1990s dominance \u2013 winning five premierships between 1992 and 2000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kotoni Staggs brings the power and passion for Brisbane.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0db4869c6c44750a5defecce3d61eb0c821f0db5.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kotoni Staggs brings the power and passion for Brisbane.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s up to this particular group if they want to create their own era,\u201d Broncos board member and four-time premiership-winner Darren Lockyer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always talk about the \u201990s for the Broncos, well, there\u2019s an opportunity for this team to do the same &#8211; that\u2019s up to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love Payne and what he\u2019s done for the club over the years. He\u2019s been a big part of the club, and we hope he stays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane\u2019s success coincided with representative honours, as superstar fullback Reece Walsh and Gehamat Shibasaki garnered Kangaroos debuts in the 3-0 Ashes series triumph in England.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Staggs also completed his comeback to the green and gold jersey, having opted to represent Australia over Tonga.<\/p>\n<p>With the Rugby League World Cup coming to Australia next year, Staggs hinted that the national colours he would don would hinge on the future of Kangaroos coach, and former Broncos mentor, Kevin Walters, who was only signed for the Ashes campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying back with Kev was good. We\u2019ve got a good relationship and I love being alongside him and being coached by him. But also, if Kev stays in that role I don\u2019t see myself anywhere else,\u201d Staggs said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou hear all those things and see it all out there, but I\u2019m just letting Payne do his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-312724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312724","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=312724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}