Sign up now!!! <\/a><\/p>\nLomax’s court date delayed until March | 00:50<\/p>\n
Gorden Tallis, meanwhile, added that if he was a Parramatta fan and heard Lomax say, \u2018I\u2019m going to rugby\u2019, he would be fine but that if he was wanting to join Melbourne, that was a different story.<\/p>\n
While Tallis, Webster and host Braith Anasta were all of the opinion that Lomax shouldn\u2019t be granted a free pass to join the Storm, journalist Brent Read believed differently.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not saying Parramatta shouldn\u2019t get something for Zac Lomax. I think they should. They should get financially compensated which they will do at some point,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my view, what did Parramatta expect? He broke a contract to go to Parramatta. He then broke Parramatta\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy are they shocked by this? And also how many clubs are chasing Zac Lomax right now – not many. Only one as far as I know<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s not many that have reached out to Zac Lomax to sign him \u2026 given his history.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he should be back in the game. I want to see him back in the game. He\u2019s a great player. I\u2019d love to see him Melbourne.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anasta finished the conversation with a message that is set to resonate with a lot of rugby league fans, \u201cThere needs to be some sort of punishment. Our games needs to have balls. We need to stand by the decisions that we make.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prominent rugby league journalists Andrew Webster and Brent Read have clashed over the Zac Lomax saga, and specifically…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-504741","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\/504741","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=504741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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