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SMITH REVEALS ‘KICK UP THE ARSE’ FROM TEAMMATES
Roosters star Brandon Smith has addressed speculation he won’t see out his contract and revealed the “kick up the arse” he got from senior teammates.
Smith has been linked with an early exit from the Roosters in the wake of getting dropped for disciplinary reasons last week.
The 28-year-old received a breach notice for missing a team meeting earlier this month and while not a cardinal sin in isolation, the club came down hard because it reportedly reflected a pattern of behaviour.
It also triggered multiple reports that the club was losing patience with Smith - who is on $900,000 next season - and that he could be shown the door early.
But the New Zealand international has moved to quash departure speculation that he’d replace Damien Cook at the Rabbitohs next year.
“I knew the consequences were coming. I sort of expected it to happen, so when I got told it wasn’t so bad,” Smith said on being dropped for disciplinary reasons on The Bye Round Podcast.
“There’s only one thing I did see, someone said I was off to the Bunnies which is pretty interesting,” he said.
“That’s not true, just to get that out there.”
Smith revealed the Roosters leadership group told him he was falling short of club standards in what marked a wake up call and admitted he has to take the good headlines with the bad.
However, despite the coverage around his behaviour and his future, Smith explained he’s got no animosity towards the media.
“At the moment, I’m off socials so I’m not seeing it and I don’t read the paper,” he said.
“You’ve got to take the good days with the bad days and recognise that because you’re in the papers for being bad, it’s because you’re being bad.
“They don’t purposely target you all the time and you’re usually in there for doing something negative, if you can turn that around and do something positive you’re going to get in the papers for doing something positive.
“Journos get a bad rep … they report what’s the hot news and I don’t have any concerns about them writing bad stuff about me because at the moment, I’m not being good enough and I’m not doing what’s up to the Roosters standard.
“The leadership group have told me that, it’s a kick up the arse like Rads (Victor Radley) said … now it’s about turning those newspaper articles around from something negative to something positive and I can do that through my footy.”
SMITH REVEALS ‘KICK UP THE ARSE’ FROM TEAMMATES
Roosters star Brandon Smith has addressed speculation he won’t see out his contract and revealed the “kick up the arse” he got from senior teammates.
Smith has been linked with an early exit from the Roosters in the wake of getting dropped for disciplinary reasons last week.
The 28-year-old received a breach notice for missing a team meeting earlier this month and while not a cardinal sin in isolation, the club came down hard because it reportedly reflected a pattern of behaviour.
It also triggered multiple reports that the club was losing patience with Smith - who is on $900,000 next season - and that he could be shown the door early.
But the New Zealand international has moved to quash departure speculation that he’d replace Damien Cook at the Rabbitohs next year.
“I knew the consequences were coming. I sort of expected it to happen, so when I got told it wasn’t so bad,” Smith said on being dropped for disciplinary reasons on The Bye Round Podcast.
“There’s only one thing I did see, someone said I was off to the Bunnies which is pretty interesting,” he said.
“That’s not true, just to get that out there.”
Smith revealed the Roosters leadership group told him he was falling short of club standards in what marked a wake up call and admitted he has to take the good headlines with the bad.
However, despite the coverage around his behaviour and his future, Smith explained he’s got no animosity towards the media.
“At the moment, I’m off socials so I’m not seeing it and I don’t read the paper,” he said.
“You’ve got to take the good days with the bad days and recognise that because you’re in the papers for being bad, it’s because you’re being bad.
“They don’t purposely target you all the time and you’re usually in there for doing something negative, if you can turn that around and do something positive you’re going to get in the papers for doing something positive.
“Journos get a bad rep … they report what’s the hot news and I don’t have any concerns about them writing bad stuff about me because at the moment, I’m not being good enough and I’m not doing what’s up to the Roosters standard.
“The leadership group have told me that, it’s a kick up the arse like Rads (Victor Radley) said … now it’s about turning those newspaper articles around from something negative to something positive and I can do that through my footy.”
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