Tigers legend\u2019s sad admission over club\u2019s latest messy saga<\/a><\/p>\nHarry Grant was a shock winner of the Golden Boot.Source: Supplied<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look at the shortlist of players that were in the running, and then how many great players are in the game in general, (I\u2019m) definitely very humbled and proud to receive it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe panel of judges that did award it, they\u2019ve done plenty in the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can fill your boots up with and take some confidence with it.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSometimes when you\u2019re having fun and enjoying yourself, these accomplishments or achievements come along with it but at the end of the day it\u2019s your teammates, your team, and the staff that put so much time in through the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite beating one of the favourites in Munster to the award, Grant revealed a classy touch from his Storm, Marroons and Kangaroos teammate upon the announcement. <\/p>\n
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\u201cHe was one of the first blokes to send me a message and he\u2019s a great teammate, a great person and I think to sort of play with him at club land, but then to play with him in those occasions and arenas like Origin and the Kangaroos, you sort of see how much of a freak he is,\u201d Grant said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s out there having fun playing footy, and giving his best, and that\u2019s why I love playing with him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden Boot winner Harry Grant has defended the judging panel for the award after criticism that Kiwis star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,9421,11170,190420,4567,3193,190421,11101,47920,190425,34150,188013,1208,2057,763,190426,159211,159210,190422,190428,13495,190419,4466,190427,761,762,4609,3583,158,190423,190424,9420,85,4515],"class_list":["post-344009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benji-marshall","tag-billy-slater","tag-boot-judging-panel","tag-cameron-munster","tag-cameron-smith","tag-classy-touch","tag-cooper-cronk","tag-darren-lockyer","tag-defends-golden-boot","tag-duke-of-montrose","tag-enforcer-inks-extension","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-fox-league","tag-fun-playing-footy","tag-golden-boot","tag-golden-boot-award","tag-golden-boot-judging","tag-grant-defends","tag-greg-inglis","tag-judging-panel","tag-melbourne-storm","tag-name-interim","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nick-meaney","tag-northern-europe","tag-nrl","tag-petero-civoniceva","tag-ruben-wiki","tag-shane-richardson","tag-sports","tag-wests-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344009","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=344009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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