Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nWill the Manly crowd Boo DCE? | 00:43<\/p>\n
\u201cBut in defence, it\u2019s the same thing. If someone\u2019s tackling hard and forcing errors in the back, it\u2019s just as big a play, but it doesn\u2019t get talked about as much. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not here to justify why he\u2019s good enough. We in this club know he\u2019s good enough and we really appreciate him as a footy player and as a person (because) he\u2019s s an integral part of our team.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I really think it\u2019s unfair that he is coming under criticism. The way he\u2019s gone after these first two weeks, considering he\u2019s coming off a head injury last year, has been great. So I think he\u2019s only going to get better this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben Trbojevic was equally supportive of his older brother, with both brothers keen to see Jake play on next year if he wants to. <\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone\u2019s entitled to their own opinion, but I don\u2019t read into it too much,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I do feel like people do get caught up in stats a lot and not really look at the fundamentals of the game. And I feel like Jake\u2019s been great for us these first two games, leading the line speed and all that. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo everyone\u2019s entitled to their opinion, but I reckon he\u2019s a big asset to this club and he will be going forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think he leads the line speed. He\u2019s one of the best forwards at just going after the game and really gets off the line and puts good hits on and it really lifts us as a team. I think people do get caught up in stats, but they\u2019re entitled to their own opinion.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a natural leader. He gets very amped up and he gets the boys fired up and he\u2019s a really important member to this team and he will be going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seibold on HEARTBREAKING loss | 05:02<\/p>\n
Jake is one of the nicest players in the NRL, which is why everyone who questions his future in the game stresses that it\u2019s nothing personal given everything he\u2019s done for Manly, NSW and Australia. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know Jake is a different character and he does get quite worked up, but I think he\u2019s tough enough to know that journalists and analysts are entitled to their own opinion,\u201d Tom said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat really matters is how you go out there and perform, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ll focus on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d imagine it (the criticism) would be uncomfortable (for him) because you come into training here and everyone here really appreciates what he brings and knows how important he is to this team. Not only as a player, but as a person. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo like I said before, I think the commentary around him is very unfair and he\u2019s an integral part of this team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sea Eagles skipper Tom Trbojevic says recent criticism of his brother, Jake, has been \u201cdisappointing\u201d and \u201cunfair\u201d, pointing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-343429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343429","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=343429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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