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13 July 2009 RE TO: NZRL Staff, Districts and Affiliates and Board FROM: Cushla Dawson DATE: 13 July 2009 RE: Media Summary Tuesday 07 July to Monday 13 July 2009 Kearney coy on Chooks but in talks over NZ job: STEVE KEARNEY isn't interested in talking about whether he's taking over at the Sydney Roosters but he did reveal last night he was deep in contract talks with the NZRL over extending his deal as Kiwis coach. Asked about persisting speculation the Roosters are close to dumping Brad Fittler as coach for 2010 and replacing him with Kearney, the Melbourne assistant told the Sunday Star- Times last night: "I am not sure they have made a decision on their coaching role for next season. Until they have, I am not interested so there is nothing really to comment on. I have said before that I am sure opportunities will present themselves down the track." Slow recovery may put paid to Kiwis tour for Vatuvei: WARRIORS winger Manu "the Beast" Vatuvei has revealed he might be forced out of this year's Kiwis tour to Europe. The 112-kilogram giant has been playing with a slight cartilage tear in his knee since returning to the NRL in round six. It's showing no signs of improving and Vatuvei said he might have to get it fixed in the off-season, which would keep him out of the Kiwis' Four Nations campaign. Cash-strapped islanders wait for Colin to share love: EIGHT months after making a record $5 million profit courtesy of the 2008 World Cup, the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) will finally meet to honour its promise to divide the windfall among the code's emerging nations. While some former NRL players were pleased to hear the RLIF was about to address some issues, they warned bucketloads of money alone would not ensure the game thrived in the island nations. Golden boy: At the start of the NRL season, an earnest young man approached Stacey Jones at a training session and asked for his autograph. That young man will never forget the reaction of his boyhood hero. "He called me a kid," recalls Kevin Locke, the 20-year-old Northcote prodigy whose freakish talent drew comparisons with the great halfback long before he became his teammate. Jamie Peacock out for revenge after World Cup career lowlight: If there's one thing proud Jamie Peacock hates more than losing to an Aussie, it's losing to a Kiwi. And England's Super League stars did both with dishonour at last season's World Cup. So patriotic Peacock can't wait to settle a few scores in the end-of- season Four Nations tournament. No hangover for booze-free Roberts: Ben Roberts proudly declares he hasn't touched a drop of alcohol since New Year's Eve. Just as well, because the Bulldogs five-eighth and five-Test Kiwi knows he was a few bottles away from having his contract torn up late last year. Now, a new two-year deal and a career-best performance against the Broncos under his belt, life's good for the 24-year-old as he chases a National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. Financial crisis may hit league: Only one club in Manawatu have paid their affiliation fees to the Manawatu Rugby League, pouring doubt on the viability of having a Manawatu competition for the rest of the season. The league held an emergency meeting at the Sport Manawatu offices last night to discuss with clubs why they hadn't coughed up their fees. Ohakea Magpies are the only team who have paid their subs in full, which they did at the meeting last night. Bulls add one of league’s oldest rookies: Former Canterbury Colts rugby wing Tony Loffhagen has won a place in the Canterbury Bulls training squad in his first season of rugby league. The Kaiapoi Bulldog now in his early 30s has impressed some shrewd judges in the club premiership this season and could go on to become one of the older representative rookies in Canterbury's history. Rugby league set for August: The first ever Honiara Rugby League competition is set for August this year. There are four teams within Honiara; two teams from West Honiara, one each for Central and East Honiara. Solomon Islands Rugby League (SIRL) president William Tuhaika said the main purpose of the competition is to allow players to learn more of the new code. Tupou heading to Tigers: Tame Tupou has been thrown a lifeline by Australian side Wests Tigers after being dismissed by the Bradford Bulls in January. The 26-year-old New Zealand Kiwi international was shown the door at the Super League side due to long-running injury problems, but still had 18 months remaining on his contract. After losing an RFL tribunal Tupou was forced to serve a six-month notice period in which he failed to secure a deal with another Super League club. Are they hurting? Not half, in Takahiwai's case: Takahiwai are losing troops like wildfire and the depleted side will take on Wairoa tomorrow to try to turn the tables following three consecutive losses. When team stalwart Nick Godfrey was ruled out of tomorrow's match against Wairoa and possibly for the rest of the season after lopping off his finger in an industrial accident, things could not get much worse for coach Mark Freeman - except for when he lost his second halfback, O'Shea Williams. Hooker makes all right moves: The New Zealand Warriors and Melbourne Storm do it and the Bay of Plenty Steamers have dabbled in the past. After the bustling, energetic effort of Otumoetai Eels hooker Doug Graham in Saturday's Moananui Akiwa (Gisborne-Coastline) premier grand final at Mitchell Park, the benefits of wrestling - not WWF, the over-hyped candyfloss of televised entertainment, but Olympic-style grappling - to the oval ball codes might finally be gaining some traction. Kearney coy on Chooks but in talks over NZ job STEVE KEARNEY isn't interested in talking about whether he's taking over at the Sydney Roosters but he did reveal last night he was deep in contract talks with the NZRL over extending his deal as Kiwis coach. Asked about persisting speculation the Roosters are close to dumping Brad Fittler as coach for 2010 and replacing him with Kearney, the Melbourne assistant told the Sunday Star-Times last night: "I am not sure they have made a decision on their coaching role for next season. Until they have, I am not interested so there is nothing really to comment on. I have said before that I am sure opportunities will present themselves down the track." And one has, with Kearney declaring he has opened discussions over staying on as Kiwis coach beyond the year-end Tri-Nations. "We have begun discussing an extension beyond this season, but it is not top priority at the moment given they have had a change of chairman and a new chief executive, but we are working through it." Kearney is considered favourite to take over at the Roosters, although their chief executive Steve Noyce moved to dampen speculation yesterday and when asked who would hold the coaching post next year, said merely: "The best person for the job." When asked directly about Kearney, he said: "I don't deal in rumours. Brad has eight games to go in his existing contract and we've all worked hard in the past five or six weeks to improve on-field performance." The Roosters have been plagued by a wretched season on-field and alcohol-fuelled dramas off it. Meanwhile, the Warriors last night flatly denied they had fielded any approach from English club Hull Kingston Rovers for backrower Simon Mannering. Hull KR coach and former Warriors forward Justin Morgan was quoted in the Hull Daily Mail as not denying he had an interest in Mannering. Morgan said: "I like him as a player but he's not likely to be at the top of our hit- list." Warriors chief executive Wayne Scurrah pointed to the new three-year deal Mannering signed earlier this year and said the club was not interested in any approach. But one Kiwi world cup winner who appears more likely to head to England is Wests Tigers utility Dene Halatau, who could rejoin his former New Zealand coach Brian McClennan at English Super League club Leeds, a hint they have given up on another Kiwi, Bulldogs second rower Greg Eastwood. And former Warrior Nathan Fien, who makes his debut today for the Dragons against Manly, says he has found the team spirit at his new club even stronger than the Warriors' famous "brotherhood". "At the Warriors, we spoke about how close we were, about the brotherhood that was within the team. I'd never experienced anything like it," Fien said yesterday. "But once I got here, to Wollongong, I could definitely see that the Dragons are exactly the same, if not even closer. Wayne [Bennett, Dragons coach] has obviously done the same thing to players in this team that he did with me in the World Cup last year. "He's got players believing in themselves, each other, and he believes in them," says Fien, who has had to leave his wife and children behind in Auckland for the short term and is lodging with Kiwis team-mate Jeremy Smith. (Source: Steve Kilgallon, Sunday Star Times, 12 July 2009) Slow recovery may put paid to Kiwis tour for Vatuvei WARRIORS winger Manu "the Beast" Vatuvei has revealed he might be forced out of this year's Kiwis tour to Europe.
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