Massive Dogs blow after star\u2019s shock contract call; Penrith poach young gun \u2014 Whispers<\/a><\/p>\nSam Walker is set to hit free agency.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got no problem waiting until October to have that discussion either with the club because that means we can focus on (football) right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important to answer those question because it came out today but as a coach who is focused on this week and this year it\u2019s pretty good news.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not in the discussions so I\u2019m guessing here but the way I interpreted it is Sammy wants to focus on playing well right now, which from a coach\u2019s point of view, how good.<\/p>\n
Robinson did, however, take issue with how the story was leaked to the media.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s strange that it\u2019s come out in Queensland,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeter (Badel) and journalists do well to get that information out.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear how that comes out from management when there were only a couple of people (in the meeting).\u201d<\/p>\n
Cleary on PNG money “You can’t compete” | 14:32<\/p>\n
The ongoing uncertainty surrounding Walker\u2019s future at Bondi sparked concerns over the impact on the Roosters\u2019 finals push.<\/p>\n
\u201cSam Walker and the Roosters need to resolve their contract,\u201d Code Sports reporter Dave Riccio said on NRL360 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019ll take a lot of noise out of the discussion and a lot of noise out of Sam\u2019s head,\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThey need to get it down, because that\u2019ll free up his mind heading into the finals series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Walker is reportedly set to hit free agency on November 1 after contract talks with the Roosters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-852146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852146","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=852146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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