Roster overhaul and \u2018reality check\u2019 behind Benji\u2019s Tigers moment<\/a><\/p>\nPB: Well Gordie you\u2019re actually wrong, and I\u2019ll tell you why. I spoke with Madge today and I spoke to a physio about Adam Reynolds and the rib cartilage injury and he said, flying is immaterial. It\u2019s not a soft tissue injury.<\/p>\n
GT: So let\u2019s reverse it then if you\u2019re sticking up for him. Blokes with rib cartilage injuries play. That\u2019s what happens.<\/p>\n
PB: It\u2019s Round 3. <\/p>\n
GT: So it\u2019s not an important game?<\/p>\n
PB: Not in the context of the season. It\u2019s a big game but what I\u2019m saying is that your initial criticism was that he shouldn\u2019t have flown.<\/p>\n
GT: In my era when we (Broncos) won six (premierships) and you got injured and you put yourself in front of the team and went to Sydney the players would frown upon it. If he can jump on a plane and put himself in that position, the dressing room would have frowned on it. I\u2019ll leave it to the players, I\u2019m not going to leave it to a physio who doesn\u2019t play and I\u2019m not going to leave it to you to tell me. <\/p>\n
Tallis then clarified the comments he made on Triple M over the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was three hours into a radio show and you kept digging on the Broncos and I said he must be good because if he\u2019s not, he wouldn\u2019t jump on a plane. And then you guys write about it and I have to cop it,\u201d Tallis explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell you should cop it because it was your initial analysis,\u201d Badel replied.<\/p>\n
Tallis believes Reynolds\u2019 high standard of the club means he should try and \u201cplay though the pain\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what that jersey deserves and you can\u2019t tell me any different. If you don\u2019t think it deserves it, that\u2019s fine but I do and I wore it and you didn\u2019t,\u201d Tallis snapped.<\/p>\n
The pair\u2019s heated clash continued when Badel fired a shot at Tallis for sitting out a season for the Dragons early in his playing career.<\/p>\n
Gorden Tallis and Peter Badel went toe-to-toe on Wednesday night\u2019s episode of NRL360.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
PB: There\u2019s 25 rounds to go, why risk the season now?<\/p>\n
GT: So you can pick and choose when you play for the Broncos? Is that what your telling me?<\/p>\n
PB: You picked and chose when you played. You sat out a whole season.<\/p>\n
GT: That was from St George. You have to be a better journalist than that. I didn\u2019t sit out at the Broncos.<\/p>\n
PB: You sat out as a player. In terms of being judicious over a whole season, why would Reyno play Round 3.<\/p>\n
GT: Because he\u2019s the captain. <\/p>\n
PB: So the captain has to play every game?<\/p>\n
GT: That\u2019s what leaders do.<\/p>\n
The duo then debated Reynolds\u2019 role in the Broncos grand final win with Tallis stating that the Broncos \u201cdon\u2019t make the grand final if Reece Walsh doesn\u2019t play\u201d and that \u201c(Reynolds) was off the field when they won\u201d referencing the halfback\u2019s calf injury in the decider before firing another shot at Badel.<\/p>\n
GT: Don\u2019t come here with Madge\u2019s s**t, come here with your own original ideas.<\/p>\n
PB: This isn\u2019t Madge\u2019s s**t. <\/p>\n
GT: Please, give me a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos legend Gorden Tallis and Brisbane journalist Peter Badel have gone head-to-head in a fiery NRL360 clash over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32730,85,2652,9504,25480,181048,79719,181050,180468,75068,181055,181044,2647,9499,9494,181054,97641,148391,181047,181049,25484,181056,2648,111,139,181052,69,2659,181045,175387,181053,3654,13905,181046,181051,213,1734,74980],"class_list":["post-338224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adam-reynolds","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-broncos-coach","tag-broncos-legend","tag-calf-injury","tag-cartilage-injuries-play","tag-done-media-commitments","tag-dressing-room","tag-fiery-back-and-forth","tag-fiery-clash","tag-fox-league","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-grand-final","tag-grand-final-replay","tag-heated-clash","tag-ian-hitchcock","tag-initial-analysis","tag-initial-criticism","tag-michael-maguire","tag-midweek-press-conference","tag-new-south-wales","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nigel-hallett","tag-nz","tag-oceania","tag-painful-rib-injury","tag-peter-badel","tag-playing-career","tag-queensland","tag-reece-walsh","tag-rib-cartilage-injury","tag-soft-tissue-injury","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-triple-m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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