{"id":29645,"date":"2021-02-02T05:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T06:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=29645"},"modified":"2021-02-02T07:58:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T07:58:22","slug":"sneaky-folau-move-leaves-catalans-fuming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=29645","title":{"rendered":"Sneaky Folau move leaves Catalans fuming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Folau has left his Super League club in the dark <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/st-george-illawarra-dragons-israel-folau-deal\/55aee046-0751-417f-a31b-3f948a819a1c\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"over his proposed move back to the NRL with the Dragons\">over his proposed move back to the NRL with the Dragons<\/a>, prompting an angry reaction from Catalans coach Steve McNamara.<\/p>\n<p>McNamara has ridiculed the reports of his star centre leaving &#8211; even though Folau has obviously made contact with the Dragons.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragons would not have contacted the NRL asking for permission for Folau &#8211; who has a year to run on his Catalans contract &#8211; to join them unless the code-hopping star wanted to stay in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>But McNamara remained defiant nonetheless, releasing a statement to Catalans&#x27; website within the past hour.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6129631737001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2020\/02\/268665\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"Folau&#x27;s first Catalans interview\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ck68lvi0p00000hqnynk82cut\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#x27;t normally react to things but this is absolute rubbish,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;People have suggested that he&#x27;s simply not returned to France and made no contact with the club and it&#x27;s the complete opposite. He&#x27;s got a serious family situation back home in Australia and from day one of that situation arising, he has been in contact with us.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s where we are currently at and there has been no change in the situation. It&#x27;s a personal thing and we are giving him whatever time he needs.&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)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Israel Folau has left his Super League club in the dark over his proposed move back to the NRL with the Dragons, prompting an angry <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=29645\" title=\"Sneaky Folau move leaves Catalans fuming\">[&#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\/29645"}],"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=29645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29647,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions\/29647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}