{"id":428292,"date":"2024-10-24T07:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T07:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=428292"},"modified":"2024-10-24T22:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T22:09:30","slug":"shoosh-roosters-star-fires-back-at-suaalii-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=428292","title":{"rendered":"'Shoosh': Roosters star fires back at Suaalii critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\ufeffngus Crichton<\/a> has leapt to the defence of former Roosters<\/a> teammate Joseph Suaalii<\/a>, urging critics to "let the kid play" as his Wallabies<\/a> debut nears.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old, who only wrapped up his NRL commitments last month, has been parachuted into the Australian squad<\/a> for the upcoming Spring Tour in the UK.<\/p>\n

Suaalii is expected to feature in the green and gold for the first time before the end of 2024, with head coach Joe Schmidt confirming the code-hopper was in his plans.<\/p>\n

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The decision from Wallabies selectors has drawn some criticism on social media, while rugby league commentator Andrew Voss also took aim at the selection.<\/p>\n

\"Joseph-Aukuso<\/p>\n

\ufeff"You can't have two training sessions and then get picked for Australia," he said on SEN Radio this week.<\/p>\n

"He's got to play a game beforehand and it can't be a Test. That's absolute rubbish."<\/p>\n

Those comments quite clearly struck a nerve with Crichton, who is in the midst of his own international duties with the Kangaroos.<\/p>\n

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The back-rower took to social media platform X and offered his support to Suaalii.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffShoosh let the kid play," Crichton said, accompanied by a silencing and sleeping emoji.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/acrichton33\/status\/1849309980807086107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

Suaalii has played union in the past, coming through The King's College in Parramatta and representing his country in under-age competitions before choosing league.<\/p>\n

Crichton himself is no stranger to the 15-man code, playing for \ufeffScots at schoolboy level before being picked up by the Rabbitohs once he finished high school.<\/p>\n

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The rampaging Roosters star was linked with Rugby Australia earlier this year, but has since put pen to paper on a fresh deal with the NRL powerhouse.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A\ufeffngus Crichton has leapt to the defence of former Roosters teammate Joseph Suaalii, urging critics to "let the kid play" as his Wallabies debut nears. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":428294,"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\/428292"}],"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=428292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428295,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428292\/revisions\/428295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/428294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}