Amidst the devastating news of Jai Arrow\u2019s MND diagnosis, Rabbitohs captain Cameron Murray took a moment from Blues camp to reflect on the strength shown by his former teammate and the impact his character has had on those around him.<\/p>\n
\u201cJai has shown an incredible amount of strength over the last couple of months,\u201d said Murray. \u201cIt\u2019s really unbelievable what he\u2019s been going through, and the strength he\u2019s shown in the face of such a cruel disease has been amazing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s left his mark on rugby league for sure. Particularly since he joined us in 2021, he\u2019s left his mark on all of us and we\u2019re all better people for knowing Jai.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all right behind him and it\u2019s really good to see the support that he\u2019s got
throughout the wider rugby league community, and even past that. I think it just speaks about his character and the impact that he\u2019s had on everyone that he\u2019s come into contact with.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no better bloke and we\u2019re all behind him. We all love him, so we\u2019ll be there with him through this fight.<\/p>\n
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Inside camp: Nathan Cleary<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s cruel. Life can be pretty cruel sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
NSW Blues debutant Blayke Brailey also expressed his support for Arrow on Saturday morning as Laurie Daley’s men ramped up preparations for Game One.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really shocked and saddened by the news. He\u2019s got all our support and no matter if you\u2019re a Souths fan or you know Jai, you\u2019ll send your love and prayers to him and hopefully he can get through this tough time,” Brailey said.<\/p>\n
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Inside camp: Isaah Yeo<\/p>\n
Support for Arrow has been strong from the Blues camp as well as the wider rugby league community, but New South Wales are maintaining their focus on the job at hand.<\/p>\n
Murray and Brailey will both feature for the Blues this Wednesday from a bench which has prompted discussions over whether Blues coach Laurie Daley is preparing for a faster brand of football.<\/p>\n
Daley has selected just one genuine front-rower on the interchange in the form of Jacob Saifiti, with Victor Radley, Ethan Strange and Casey McClean rounding it out.<\/p>\n
Despite these discussions, Murray insists there\u2019s been no talk of how the series opener will be officiated amongst the squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll just have to wait and see\u201d said Murray. \u201cI\u2019m not sure if the Origin will be similar to the NRL season, or the same old Origin we all know it can be,” he said.<\/p>\n
Regardless of how the game is officiated, Murray\u2019s focus is on adapting and bringing his best to the Origin arena once more, after watching last year\u2019s series from the sidelines.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can overthink it. Obviously it\u2019s a little bit different, but the teams and players that adapt the best and leave their excuses on the sideline are the ones that will be successful,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It was tough seeing the result last year, and I\u2019m glad I\u2019m back in the team and able to play my part in bringing the shield back to the state.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amidst the devastating news of Jai Arrow\u2019s MND diagnosis, Rabbitohs captain Cameron Murray took a moment from Blues…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-441248","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\/441248","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=441248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}