{"id":578308,"date":"2026-04-01T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578308\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:12:11","slug":"ben-hunt-expresses-frustration-with-his-current-role-at-the-broncos-hopes-to-play-hooker-michael-maguire-nrl360-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578308\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Hunt expresses frustration with his current role at the Broncos, hopes to play hooker, Michael Maguire, NRL360 rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"

An honest Ben Hunt has made the surprising admission that he feels \u201cfrustrated\u201d with his yo-yoing role at the Broncos this season.<\/p>\n

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Hunt has essentially alternated between the starting side at the bench across the first four rounds. <\/p>\n

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In Round 1 and 3, the 36-year-old started in the halves and come off the bench for the other two games. <\/p>\n

\u201cI guess it\u2019s frustrating in some aspects,\u201d Hunt told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done it before in the past throughout my career at different stages.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m used to it and as frustrating as it is doing that, it\u2019s something that, like I said, I\u2019m used to and I just have to get on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a belief that Hunt would play predominantly hooker this season but Cory Paix, who this week signed a two-year extension<\/a>, has started all four games at nine. <\/p>\n

However, Hunt is making no secret of his desire to win that spot going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cMate, I\u2019d hope it happens,\u201d Hunt said of his hope to be Brisbane\u2019s starting hooker.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way it\u2019s going, I don\u2019t know. We\u2019ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, I\u2019m not the coach. I\u2019m not in the performance staff and all that. I\u2019m not pulling the strings. I\u2019m just here to do my job and wherever I\u2019m asked to go that week, I\u2019ll go and do the best I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s early in the season and in a team like the Broncos, who are under pressure more often than not, the line-up will be chopped and changed.<\/p>\n

Hunt could end up in the No. 9 jersey down the track but given Paix\u2019s strong start and the fact the Broncos showed their faith with an extension, it doesn\u2019t appear it\u2019ll happen anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Hunt\u2019s comments) took me a little bit by surprise. I imagine he would\u2019ve thought he would be the starting hooker \u2026 He\u2019s obviously annoyed by it,\u201d journalist Brent Read said on NRL360.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not surprised,\u201d Michael Carayannis added.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving rode the Ben Hunt rollercoaster when he was at the Dragons for three years, it was a similar thing when he was going to be shifted or move back to Queensland<\/p>\n

\u201cHe does speak his mind doesn\u2019t he.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An honest Ben Hunt has made the surprising admission that he feels \u201cfrustrated\u201d with his yo-yoing role at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[18743,64,63,689,21686,11096,6407,761,762,158,677,701,30384,85,98321,283688,283689],"class_list":["post-578308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-adam-reynolds","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-hunt","tag-daniel-nuttall","tag-michael-maguire","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-queensland","tag-rugby-league-news","tag-sports","tag-starting-hooker","tag-surprising-admission","tag-yo-yoing-role"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578308","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=578308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}