NRL: Penrith coach Ivan Cleary has cautioned Jarome Luai on accepting a million dollar offer from a rival club as the star Panther weighs up his playing future.
He may have spent last week battling the flu, but Kangaroos five-eighth Cameron Munster said he never considered missing the game against New Zealand in Melbourne because he feared former Storm teammate Nicho Hynes would come in and never let him win back the jersey.
The veteran five-eighth was granted an early mark with eight minutes remaining that allowed Hynes to shift from the roaming lock role into the halves where he laid on a try for Cameron Murray with the final play of the game. Munster came into the international season under an injury cloud due to a persistent knee infection that hampered him throughout the finals.
“You can forget about all the battle wounds you’ve got and all the sore niggles you have. With the kind of names we’ve got in our team, it makes our jobs a lot easier in certain positions.The Kangaroos are short-priced favourites to clinch the Pacific Championships final in Hamilton on the back of their comfortable win last week, with powerhouse props Payne Haas and Tino Fa’asuamaleaui fresh after they were rested.