\u201cI\u2019ve sat down with Jarome at length about where we\u2019re going, and he\u2019s fully committed to the club \u2013 like fully committed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he copped a lot of flak for the clauses he had in his contract, and I\u2019ll be honest, those clauses are not going anywhere. But he\u2019s given his full commitment to our side, OK.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there\u2019s anyone I trust in our team the most, it\u2019s that player.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if those clauses were staying to safeguard against further political instability, Marshall said: \u201cAsk him that. It\u2019s not my decision to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
The long-term future of fullback Jahream Bula, who has a mutual option in his contract, is also clouded. Negotiations to keep him continue.<\/p>\n
Loading<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, we\u2019re working really hard on making that happen,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t usually talk about recruitment, but I\u2019ll be honest, you don\u2019t know with these decisions, but I am confident that he will stay, and we\u2019re doing everything possible to keep him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marshall said the team wouldn\u2019t use the ownership distractions as an excuse, but admitted the club could do without them.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh yeah, it always hurts when you go through something that\u2019s tough, especially when it affects the fans and the members and a lot of people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re humans at the end of the day, so you can\u2019t hide from it. The only thing you can do is have a plan to move forward, which we do, and that plan for us hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd my job is to get the players in a position to give our fans something to cheer about and that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing, that\u2019s why I\u2019m standing here. I didn\u2019t really want to have this [press conference], to be honest, but at the end of the day we\u2019re here and we\u2019re moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve sat down with Jarome at length about where we\u2019re going, and he\u2019s fully committed to the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-342483","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\/342483","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=342483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}