The Raiders were incensed with suggestions they ever had any interest in acquiring Lomax.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is absolute bullshit. Nobody has spoken about him, he\u2019s never been mentioned,\u201d Canberra chief executive Don Furner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t got any space in the cap and we\u2019re not looking for outside backs. I don\u2019t know how they can make that up. That\u2019s a lie.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no conversation with Choc or Chimes [Lomax\u2019s agent Clinton Schifcofske and Steve Gillis] about Zac Lomax. Absolutely zero.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Suggestions we were interested are] rubbish, absolutely 100 per cent factually incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the lawyers acting for Lomax, Ramy Qutami, was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n
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The parties will return to court later on Friday in a bid to determine when the matter will be heard. The Storm is hopeful the hearing will go ahead as originally scheduled from February 12. A favourite outcome for them would allow Lomax to make his Storm debut against the Eels in the opening round of the season.<\/p>\n
Parramatta, meanwhile, feel the scope of the case could potentially be widened to include the Storm as a party to proceedings, which would require the matter to be pushed back until after round one.<\/p>\n
Justice Fran\u00e7ois Kunc is likely to make a call on timings, after more material is produced, later on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders were incensed with suggestions they ever had any interest in acquiring Lomax. \u201cThat is absolute bullshit.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-461357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461357","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=461357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}