{"id":71315,"date":"2021-05-14T22:44:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T22:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=71315"},"modified":"2021-05-15T05:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T05:59:45","slug":"how-former-sharks-coach-disrespected-fifita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=71315","title":{"rendered":"How former Sharks coach 'disrespected' Fifita"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran Sharks prop Andrew Fifita says he was left feeling disrespected by John Morris after the former Cronulla coach urged him to retire earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Fifita, 31, will play his first game of this season today when the Sharks clash with the Rabbitohs.<\/p>\n

The premiership-winning Shark has been named on the interchange after he was overlooked earlier in the season by Morris before a suspension in reserve grade prolonged his return to first grade.<\/p>\n

Ahead of his NRL return, Fifita revealed Morris, who was shown the door by the Sharks last month<\/a>, urged him to call time on his career despite going through the club's 10-week pre-season.<\/p>\n

"I got told to retire," Fifita said.<\/p>\n

\"Andrew<\/p>\n

"I'd done my pre-season and my work. It had been 10 weeks down and I felt like I was ready to go.<\/p>\n

"I thought I went really well in (the NRL) All Stars and in my second trial for the club.<\/p>\n

"And then I got told everything in Round 1, all the negatives from the whole pre-season.<\/p>\n

"It's what you get when you hear from the coach once in the whole time I have been there. Bit disrespectful (from him) on my end.<\/p>\n

"In the sport we play it's about being transparent. He should have come up to me during the whole pre-season and let me know my faults and where I could have improved."<\/p>\n

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