{"id":334534,"date":"2023-09-28T03:44:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T03:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=334534"},"modified":"2023-09-28T05:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T05:01:33","slug":"rugbys-desperate-1-6m-offer-to-origin-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=334534","title":{"rendered":"Rugby's desperate $1.6m offer to Origin star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rugby Australia<\/a> has made Roosters<\/a> star Angus Crichton<\/a> a two-year $1.6m offer just days after the Wallabies<\/a> were reduced to their worst ever World Cup<\/a> performance.<\/p>\n

According to the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, Crichton has been offered a package deal between the governing body and the Perth Super Rugby<\/a> franchise the Western Force<\/a> for 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n

The Roosters will already lose Joseph Suaalii to rugby at the end of the 2024 season on a $1.6 million a year deal.<\/p>\n

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Crichton is contracted to the Roosters until the end of 2024, but has been given the club's permission to explore a return to the 15-man game, in which he shot to prominence as a schoolboy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Crichton's departure would free up some salary cap room for the tri-colours, who are in the midst of extension negotiations with Siua Wong and Terrell May.<\/p>\n

\"Angus<\/p>\n

Crichton attended prestigious Sydney private school Scots College, where he was a first XV star. He also made the Australian schoolboy side.<\/p>\n

He got his first taste of league in 2014, playing a handful of games for the Roosters' lower grade teams before returning to rugby.<\/p>\n

But at the end of 2014, he signed a two-year deal with the Rabbitohs for 2015 and made his first grade debut in 2016.<\/p>\n

He spent three years at the Burrow before moving to the chooks for the 2019 season.<\/p>\n

Following confirmation of Suaalii's pending defection, reports emerged the Roosters were considering releasing him from the final year of his contract.<\/p>\n

The reports prompted Rugby Australia to go public with their desires to lure not only Crichton<\/a>, but Roosters coach Trent Robinson.<\/p>\n

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\"Fans<\/p>\n

"This is how league treat their players \u2013 Joseph (Suaalii) was the hottest star in league a month \ufeffago, now they don't want him," Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan said in May.<\/p>\n

"If you're an aspiring cross-code star \ufeffremember this is the treatment you could get. I told league not to be punitive, and that's exactly what they have done.<\/p>\n

And of Robinson: \ufeff"I rate Trent, \ufeffbut I wonder how he can coach in an environment like that when there is such a ruthless attitude towards young players".<\/p>\n

"Trent would do well as a rugby coach.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

After the loss to Wales resigned the Wallabies to a World Cup group stage exit, Rugby Australia announced they would conduct a review into their elite program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rugby Australia has made Roosters star Angus Crichton a two-year $1.6m offer just days after the Wallabies were reduced to their worst ever World Cup […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334536,"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\/334534"}],"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=334534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334538,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334534\/revisions\/334538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/334536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}