{"id":30506,"date":"2021-02-04T07:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T08:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30506"},"modified":"2021-02-04T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T09:58:22","slug":"fuming-walters-walks-out-on-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30506","title":{"rendered":"Fuming Walters walks out on press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Brisbane Broncos coach Kevin Walters stormed out of a press conference today after questions were asked about star forward Payne Haas&#x27; recent off-field drama.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/nrl-news-payne-haas-court-sentence-brisbane-broncos-forward-intimidating-police\/9a3c489b-b4de-4a17-ac6b-506cc2c4f629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Haas, 21, was arrested following an incident at Tweed Heads\">Haas, 21, was arrested following an incident at Tweed Heads<\/a>, in northern New South Wales, on January 16 and charged with using offensive language and intimidating police. He avoided conviction after appearing in court on Thursday, but was handed a two-year good behaviour bond.<\/p>\n<p>Walters, who today was at a press conference for next week&#x27;s All Stars Boxing event in Townsville, spoke to reporters where he was asked about Haas&#x27;s recent incident.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think we&#x27;ll stick to what we&#x27;re talking about here, I&#x27;ll leave that one alone,&quot; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"178a340b-cdae-47c2-981b-1e5f0b37440c\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/178a340b-cdae-47c2-981b-1e5f0b37440c\" alt=\"Kevin Walters\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walters was then told by a reporter that he couldn&#x27;t &quot;avoid&quot; talking about the incident before he once again refused to give the media any thoughts on the situation involving Haas.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I can (avoid it), I can just say no,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ll talk about it in an appropriate environment.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;re not here to talk about any of those things. We&#x27;re here to talk about the boxing.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Then asked if he was disappointed with the NSW Blues star, Walters responded: &quot;The boxing is great, it&#x27;s going to be a fun night. I won&#x27;t be able to go to Townsville but it will be nice to watch it from home.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"be4b36df-011f-4f4b-956d-e85c710873e6\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/be4b36df-011f-4f4b-956d-e85c710873e6\" alt=\"Andrew McCullough\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reporters then proceeded to ask the Broncos coach about the future of hooker Andrew McCullough&#x27;s future, who has been linked with a switch to the Dragons.<\/p>\n<p>The question surrounding McCullough&#x27;s future appeared to be the final straw who opted to walk away.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hah, thanks for your time this afternoon,&quot; he said before making an exit.<\/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>New Brisbane Broncos coach Kevin Walters stormed out of a press conference today after questions were asked about star forward Payne Haas&#x27; recent off-field drama. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30506\" title=\"Fuming Walters walks out on press conference\">[&#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\/30506"}],"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=30506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30508,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506\/revisions\/30508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}