{"id":604993,"date":"2026-04-13T22:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604993\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:35:21","slug":"gorden-tallis-vs-broncos-feud-continues-refusal-to-shake-media-managers-hand-triple-m-radio-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604993\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorden Tallis vs Broncos feud continues, refusal to shake media manager’s hand, Triple M radio comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gorden Tallis<\/a> has continued his simmering feud with the Broncos<\/a> after an on-air radio reveal on Sunday regarding an altercation with a club staff member.<\/p>\n

The former captain and premiership winner has been at odds with Brisbane for quite some time, with the likes of Adam Reynolds and Michael Maguire in the crosshairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tallis then had his name removed from a meeting room at the club’s Red Hill base last month, prompted a divided opinion across NRL circles.<\/p>\n

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The latest chapter in the never-ending saga came after reports that Tallis refused to shake hands with media manager Grant Williams when the Broncos faced the Titans – a team the “Raging Bull” partly owns – in round five.<\/p>\n

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Gorden Tallis on a panel for Fox League.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The 52-year-old confirmed the incident on Triple M’s Sunday Sin Bin, giving a light-hearted take on his version of events and defending his stance.<\/p>\n

“Oh, what? I didn’t shake his hand, that was it,” Tallis said.<\/p>\n

“But I shook Dave Donaghy’s hand. My wife gave him a kiss. My wife went into the Broncos box. I shook board members’ hands. What they don’t see, right, is that.<\/p>\n

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“Now I’m in trouble for what I didn’t do. That’s OK I didn’t shake someone’s hand.<\/p>\n

“Let’s just say this right, a crisis manager [Williams] only has job when the club is in \u2026 there you go. Maybe he’s making it up.<\/p>\n

“Do you think it worries me? No, not one bit.”<\/p>\n

Williams previously worked in crisis management and also held a role with the NRL’s media department before joining the Broncos last year.<\/p>\n

The club official has since responded and told News Corp he was disappointed by Tallis and the radio network airing the issue on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“I was very disappointed that Triple M allowed Gorden to discuss this matter on the radio today in the manner he did,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It should not have been allowed and Triple M know why.”<\/p>\n

Tallis played 160 games for the Broncos and won the 1998 Clive Churchill Medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gorden Tallis has continued his simmering feud with the Broncos after an on-air radio reveal on Sunday regarding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-604993","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\/604993","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=604993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}