Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nIt comes after Maroons superstar Kalyn Ponga said Queensland players were supporting Arrow in his fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely been spoken about in this camp,\u201d Ponga said on NRL 360.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played a lot of footy against Jai and he\u2019s one of those guy you didn\u2019t want to play against because he was so passionate played aggressively but after the game you wanted to have a beer with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with him and his loved ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing about Jai is he\u2019s a strong bloke. There\u2019s a journey ahead of him but he is a man that\u2019s fit for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Maroons will have added motivation for the Origin series with retired forward Jai Arrow set to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,11170,9124,6239,763,2105,2485,289912,4494,58109,761,762,329950,158,677,50264,701,13385,264251,85],"class_list":["post-684440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-billy-slater","tag-chris-hyde","tag-final-season","tag-fox-league","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gold-coast","tag-illustrious-rugby-league","tag-jai-arrow","tag-motor-neurone-disease","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-neurone-disease-diagnosis","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-player-exodus","tag-queensland","tag-queensland-maroons","tag-sanctuary-cove","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684440","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=684440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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