\u2018Can live with that\u2019: Big $700k winner in Luai sweepstakes as \u2018elite\u2019 star tips finals scales<\/a><\/p>\nMichael Maguire has shot down talk of a heated altercation with Karmichael Hunt.Source: Supplied<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do our best to help out our affiliate clubs. It was my reaction to do what is best for my team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t testy between Madge and myself. My tone might have been testy because it was in the middle of a game. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no issues at our end. We know where we stand in the pecking order.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Broncos head coach, meanwhile. also dismissed suggestions that the exchange was heated.<\/p>\n
Instead, he explained that he had simply asked the affiliate coach whether Walters could return to dummy-half so he could assess him ahead of an NRL recall.<\/p>\n
Walters will return to the NRL this week for the first time since rupturing his ACL at the back end of last season and undergoing a knee reconstruction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sitting in my car because, as people do, they watch the footy. I happened to be behind Karmichael. Karmichael had an injury and Billy was playing nine, so he pushed Billy to seven,\u201d Maguire added.<\/p>\n
RUGBY LEAGUE: Hostplus Cup match between Brisbane Tigers and South Logan Magpies. Pictured, Billy Walters. Photo: Patrick Woods.Source: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018Hey, K. Is there any way you might be able to get Bill back into nine? I\u2019m keen to look at him for this week.\u2019 \u201cHe said, \u2018No worries.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s purely the conversation. Karmichael\u2019s a good fella. He\u2019s an affiliate coach and that\u2019s what your reserve grade is. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re allowed to have a conversation with your affiliate coaches. It was a conversation. I was trying to help him work out what he might be able to do. I said, \u2018Mate, if he needs to stay at seven, he stays at seven.\u2019 \u201cKarmichael said, \u2018Leave it with me and I\u2019ll work out what I can come up with.\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201cTo the credit of Karmichael, he works well with us because I\u2019m trying to give him as many players as I can so he can win, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
CODE Sports reporter David Riccio, addressing the incident on NRL 360, said Maguire was well within his right to make the request as he fights for his coaching future.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth Madge and Karmichael are playing it down and pouring cold water on it that Madge asked Karmichael (for Billy) to play a bit of hooker and get him out of the halves,\u201d Riccio said on NRL 360.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Broncos pay Billy Walters his wages so (the) Broncos should have the final say.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Maguire and former Brisbane Broncos star Karmichael Hunt have responded to reports they were engaged in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-800688","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\/800688","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=800688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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