{"id":792170,"date":"2026-07-10T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792170\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:35:10","slug":"benji-marshall-in-frosty-luai-exchange-after-wahs-loss-im-not-going-to-talk-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792170\/","title":{"rendered":"Benji Marshall in frosty Luai exchange after Wahs loss: \u2018I\u2019m not going to talk about it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/wests-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wests Tigers<\/a> coach Benji Marshall has been involved in frosty\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrl.com\/watch\/matches\/telstra-premiership\/2026\/round-19\/wests-tigers-round-19\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post-match news conference<\/a> after his side fell 32-6 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/new-zealand-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Warriors<\/a> at an equally chilly Campbelltown.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly Marshall was asked about the bombshell reports surrounding the early release of club captain Jarome Luai who was not present, replaced by Adam Doueihi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to talk about that today,\u201d Marshall declared flatly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat can come up at another time and place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/josh-papalii-injury-return-can-he-save-raiders-nrl-season\/04977934ec81199974e73437\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018I\u2019m pretty keen\u2019: Big Papa is back, can he help save Raiders season?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marshall said he just wanted to process the Warriors result, but did end up adding a few insights on the latest Luai situation &#8211; the second time this season news of Luai\u2019s future has appeared to distract the Tigers on the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t control what comes out or what gets said\u2026 that\u2019s not coming from us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nothing\u2019s finalised or done\u2019 says Marshall on Luai release<\/p>\n<p>Pushed yet again for more details on the situation surrounding his club captain, Marshall was clearly unimpressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just said I\u2019m not going to talk about it,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to talk about the game, that\u2019s what I\u2019m here for, because we\u2019re processing that right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything else we can talk about another day when we\u2019re ready to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to something being done, we\u2019ll let you know &#8211; at the moment nothing\u2019s finalised or done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports in the past 48 hours Luai has been granted permission to depart the Tigers at the end of 2026 despite still being contracted at Concord for a further 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Luai will join the PNG Chiefs in 2028 and has been linked with both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/parramatta-eels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eels<\/a> and Bears next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wests Tigers coach Benji Marshall has been involved in frosty\u00a0post-match news conference after his side fell 32-6 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-792170","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\/792170","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=792170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}