{"id":114655,"date":"2021-08-10T21:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T21:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114655"},"modified":"2021-08-10T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:59:10","slug":"sharks-reveal-real-reason-chambers-was-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114655","title":{"rendered":"Sharks reveal real reason Chambers was axed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cronulla Sharks interim coach Josh Hannay says the decision to axe veteran Will Chambers for the club&#x27;s match with Newcastle this weekend was made strictly on form and not sledging.<\/p>\n<p>Chambers, during Cronulla&#x27;s loss to New Zealand last weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/warriors-nathan-brown-on-kane-evans-will-chambers-battle\/1f492de5-22c9-420b-a2bf-e22647bf033e\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"getting into a number of verbal exchanges with Warriors players\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">got into a number of verbal exchanges with Warriors players<\/a>, at one stage creating a flashpoint with <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/warriors-kane-evans-throws-punches-at-will-chambers-cronulla-sharks\/5ea97708-1770-4400-ad27-c626295a0c54\" title=\"Kane Evans let his emotions get the better of him by lashing out at the Cronulla centre.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kane Evans, who let his emotions get the better of him by<\/a> responding with two punches.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the off-contract former Storm star has come under fire for his antics on the field and was even <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/will-chambers-sledging-kane-evans-investigation-graham-annesley-comments\/3824b82e-f6f8-4530-8356-033e7955b982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"investigated by the NRL over whether he crossed the line in terms of what was said on the field.\">investigated by the NRL over whether he crossed the line in terms of what was said on the field.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;He (Chambers) was really respectful of that and the decision not to pick him \u2014 and again I was really clear with Will on this \u2014 had nothing to do with the sledging situation, it was just purely on form,&quot; Hannay told News Corp.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b7e2a641-1b94-49aa-93a8-50d829e3b5b9\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b7e2a641-1b94-49aa-93a8-50d829e3b5b9\" alt=\"Sharks centre Will Chambers.\" data-width=\"3408\" data-height=\"1916\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old&#x27;s axing couldn&#x27;t come at a worse time with his future in the NRL currently clouded.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/living-on-the-sledge-but-form-will-decide-chambers-sharks-future-20210809-p58h9q.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sydney Morning Herald\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, incoming coach Craig Fitzgibbon is preparing to make a decision on whether to bring back Chambers, as well as prop Aiden Tolman and forward Billy Magoulias.<\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s understood Fitzgibbon&#x27;s eventual decision will be based purely on form.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what decision will be made, Cronulla does have two prefered centres in Jesse Ramien and Connor Tracey, which would mean Chambers would likely have to take on a back-up role for next season.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Cronulla Sharks interim coach Josh Hannay says the decision to axe veteran Will Chambers for the club&#x27;s match with Newcastle this weekend was made strictly <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114655\" title=\"Sharks reveal real reason Chambers was axed\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114657,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114655\/revisions\/114657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}