Katoa thanked people for their messages and prayers, and the Storm club for its support.<\/p>\n
\u201cA special thank you to the Storm for all of the help and support that you guys are continuing to provide, I appreciate it,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Katoa made specific mention of the Tongan team after criticism of their handling of a pre-game collision with teammate Lehi Hopoate, which also featured on TV coverage.<\/p>\n
Melbourne will receive salary cap dispensation to replace Katoa next season, with former Knights enforcer Jack Hetherington linked to the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo all of my family, thank you for the love and support,\u201d Katoa wrote.<\/p>\n
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\u201cTo the (Tonga Test team), the team that we love. I wanna (sic) say a massive thank you. The quality time that we had in camp was unreal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you guys for the help in camp! I love playing for our little Kingdom.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo my girl (partner), this woman has been amazing, strong and sticking by my side through it all. I appreciate you and I love you so much.<\/p>\n
\u201cA special thank you to the Storm for all of the help and the support that you guys are continuing to provide, I appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katoa thanked people for their messages and prayers, and the Storm club for its support. \u201cA special thank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-316881","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\/316881","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=316881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}