In fact, the Queensland Maroons great went as far as to claim if a New South Wales player has leaked criticism of Daley\u2019s approach to the media he should \u201cnever play again\u201d. <\/p>\n
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That came in the wake of a stunning report from Code Sports<\/a>, which claimed that Daley\u2019s pre-game addresses lacked \u201coomph\u201d and that he was too passive during training. <\/p>\n The report \u2014 which NRL 360 host Braith Anasta described as \u201cpersonal\u201d and a \u201chit piece\u201d \u2014 cited multiple sources inside the Blues camp, although no specific names were mentioned. <\/p>\n \u201cJust name the source. Never hide behind a source,\u201d Tallis said, while he also disputed the idea that Daley\u2019s pre-game addresses should have any real impact on the end result.<\/p>\n Instead, Tallis put the onus on the playing group, going as far as to say that any rugby league player should \u201cgo play another game\u201d if they need a motivational speech to get fired up.<\/p>\n \u201cThat comes down to the player,\u201d Tallis said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve played a long time in that arena. I had to be told to wait for the game… you get emotional, you\u2019ve got your family, you\u2019ve got your friends. They just spoke about a jersey presentation and they get what it means because you\u2019re in the inner sanctum. <\/p>\n \u201cYou should not need to be motivated to play for this state or anybody. We are so privileged to run out in any jersey in rugby league and if you need to be motivated to run out in any jersey in our game, go play another game. <\/p>\n \u201cNo coach ever had to tell me the game is at 7.30pm and you have to get ready to go into battle.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE ORIGIN NEWS<\/p>\n CRONK AND KEARY VERDICT: NSW\u2019s biggest fear; shocker could spark change<\/a><\/p>\n Cordner defends Daley against critics | 01:56<\/p>\n Tallis left his most scathing remark for any player who may have leaked information to the media, declaring if they did they \u201cshould never play again\u201d.<\/p>\n Code Sports reporter Michael Carayannis, who did not write the piece, pointed out that it may not have been a case of a player directly leaking the information.<\/p>\n Rather, they may have told a teammate in club land who then told a friend who then told someone else and then from there it got to the media and that may have happened in the case of multiple different players.<\/p>\n But either way, Tallis stood by his message and insisted even if that was the case, the player should have been a \u201cman\u201d and told Daley how he felt.<\/p>\n Foxsports.com.au writer Paul Crawley, however, hit back at suggestions Code Sports needed to name its sources, while also questioning whether the speculation would have an impact on Daley or the playing group ahead of Wednesday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n Get all the latest NRL news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n 42% vs 100% – Murray ‘SHOULD’ start | 02:23<\/p>\n \u201cYou talk about the fact you\u2019ve got to aim it up with people talking on the record. We all know that\u2019s not how it works,\u201d Crawley said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t have a TV show if you were stacking up everything with someone that wants to go on the record. If he has got sources there saying that to him you can\u2019t ignore that there is a problem with the New South Wales team.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know how you could completely forget about it. Even if you didn\u2019t manage to put it out of your mind, at some point it would come back and play on your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n For what it\u2019s worth, Blues assistant coach Boyd Cordner was emphatic in defending Daley when he appeared on NRL 360 on Wednesday night, calling his preparation for both Games 1 and 2 \u201cunreal\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know how much of a good coach Laurie is, the way he\u2019s prepared us throughout Game 1 and then this camp too has been unreal. He has the utmost respect of the playing group and us as a staff… there\u2019s no concerns in our camp at all,\u201d Cordner said.<\/p>\n A number of Blues players also went on the record when speaking to <\/a>foxsports.com.au<\/a>about how highly they respect Daley as a coach and the impact he has had on them in camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gorden Tallis has fired up over the \u201chit piece\u201d taking aim at Blues coach Laurie Daley on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-740041","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\/740041","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=740041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}