{"id":121391,"date":"2021-08-30T07:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=121391"},"modified":"2021-08-30T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T09:02:11","slug":"rabbitohs-stars-bite-back-at-latrell-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=121391","title":{"rendered":"Rabbitohs stars bite back at Latrell criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Sydney captain Adam Reynolds has jumped to the defence of under-fire superstar Latrell Mitchell, declaring the team will look after him following his controversial high shot on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/latrell-mitchell\" target=\"\" title=\"Mitchell\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitchell<\/a> won&#x27;t play again this season after <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/latrell-mitchell-south-sydney-rabbitohs-replacement-after-suspension-for-joseph-manu-hit\/e55290f3-9363-42d7-9f27-855f0e091fb2\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"accepting a six-week ban for the incident\">accepting a six-match ban<\/a> for a dangerous tackle on former Roosters teammate Joey Manu, which left the star centre with a depressed facial fracture.<\/p>\n<p>The aftermath has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/latrell-mitchell-joseph-manu-hit-nrl-news-reaction-suspension-south-sydney-rabbitohs\/a3873c77-fa6c-4ef0-a227-8345adc15986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"While a number of the NRL&#x27;s biggest voices have come down hard on Mitchell\">a number of the NRL&#x27;s biggest voices come down hard on Mitchell<\/a> over the incident, but Reynolds defended his teammate and claims the fullback would never &quot;deliberately hurt someone.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s all right, we&#x27;ll look after him,&quot; Reyolds told reporters today.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Obviously the Match Review Committee has dealt with it now so it&#x27;s about us moving on.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"8e6a316c-7961-4da0-b5ee-15cfb6d9abae\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/8e6a316c-7961-4da0-b5ee-15cfb6d9abae\" alt=\"Referee Ashley Klein speaks with Joseph Manu of the Roosters after receiving a high tackle from Latrell Mitchell \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;What&#x27;s happened has happened. We&#x27;ve moved past it, we&#x27;re looking forward.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Obviously, we can&#x27;t look back now, we&#x27;ve got a pretty important week in front of us, obviously we&#x27;ve got to get things right. There&#x27;s only one game to go before the semi, so our focus is there.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;No player goes out there to deliberately hurt someone. That&#x27;s basically all I&#x27;m going to say about the situation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/they-nearly-lost-him-reynolds-compares-latrell-harassment-to-mj-20200506-p54qas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Reynolds last season famously spoke out in support of Mitchell\">Reynolds last season famously spoke out in support of Mitchell<\/a> after the fullback was highly criticised for his infamous COVID-19 breach alongside Storm star Josh Addo-Carr.<\/p>\n<p>The Souths skipper was questioned on whether the media and public treatment of Mitchell had improved since.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6269786195001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/08\/377666\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Latrell clobbers Manu\" data-vms-id=\"ref:cksuah5dw002h0hrr368y6gxu\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Everyone&#x27;s got strong opinions of people in the game, obviously some more than others. It&#x27;s how we handle it as individuals,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s pretty easy to stand behind a microphone and bag someone or have comments about someone but you don&#x27;t really know what they&#x27;re thinking or feeling do we?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, South Sydney winger Campbell Graham said he hoped the incident wouldn&#x27;t change Mitchell&#x27;s aggression and the way he approaches each game.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#x27;t want to see Latrell change his game at all. I love what he brings on the field, I love his aggression and his intent on the field,&quot; Graham said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Sometimes things go wrong on the footy field and sometimes you&#x27;re on the wrong end of it.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s a shame, you don&#x27;t ever want to see anyone from the opposition teams getting hurt, that&#x27;s not what our game is about.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6270107663001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/08\/377977\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Fittler backs Taaffe at fullback for Latrell\" data-vms-id=\"ref:cksxzxe4r003j0hop60nhjqzc\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;But there is a place for aggression and physicality in our game and Latrell brings that.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Unfortunately sometimes it goes wrong and like I said no one wants to see that, I don&#x27;t want to see that but sometimes that&#x27;s just how it is.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Latrell is definitely not the only player that gets it wrong, there&#x27;s plenty of players in the NRL that bring that same aggression.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s what a lot of people love to see, we see it plenty of times throughout the year when players just get it wrong and some players might get hurt&#8230; it&#x27;s just one of those things about playing rugby league I guess.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <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!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>South Sydney captain Adam Reynolds has jumped to the defence of under-fire superstar Latrell Mitchell, declaring the team will look after him following his controversial <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=121391\" title=\"Rabbitohs stars bite back at Latrell criticism\">[&#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\/121391"}],"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=121391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121393,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121391\/revisions\/121393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}