"I think there is more chance Cameron won't play, than will play next year. He and his family have relocated to south-east Queensland, which we always knew about.<\/p>\n
"From our point of view we're planning for life without Cameron. If that changes, like last year, you're flexible and change your plans.<\/p>\n
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"I'm sure he will make the decision in due course, but in terms of us, it's been no disruption. We've planned life without Cameron. If things change, we'll change it.<\/p>\n
"At the moment it's all going ahead to play round one and a new season without Cameron – which is going to be really strange for all of us. It's been 19 seasons where he has been playing and been our captain for most of those seasons."<\/p>\n
Ponissi's comments are sure to spark more conspiracy theories around Smith's future and a move to the Titans.<\/p>\n
Mal Meninga, Gold Coast head of performance and culture, denied links to Smith back in December, saying: "We haven't spoken to Cameron, he's the world's hardest man to tie down."<\/p>\n
Yet The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>'s Andrew Webster, added more weight to the claims by confirming the Gold Coast Team has plenty of money left in the salary cap to make a play for the Maroons legend.<\/p>\n "They have money in their cap, they have one spot they have to fill before August, I talk to sources at the NRL who said that you've got to sign a player of market value, but it's very hard for a bloke like Cameron who hasn't signed with anyone, who is off contract and who's 37," he told SEN.<\/p>\n "But they said they would have no issue with the Titans signing Cameron Smith with the money that's left in their cap at the moment. It's doable."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Melbourne Storm is planning for a future without Cameron Smith according to the club's football manager Fran Ponissi as it becomes increasingly likely the […]<\/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\/31285"}],"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=31285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31287,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31285\/revisions\/31287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}