No. We’re talking about a 27-year-old man in his ninth season in the NRL who has won premierships, Origin series and Test matches.
South Sydney’s Latrell Mitchell.Credit: Wolter Peeters
He plays for a club that has done nothing but support him through tough times while slapping him with a wet lettuce leaf when he’s done something wrong. A club that backed him over Sam Burgess, a premiership-winning legend.
According to former Cronulla captain Paul Gallen, that’s the problem.
“Privately, someone at the South Sydney club — the captain or the coach — is getting hold of him and telling him the way it should be, but I don’t think that happens at South Sydney,” he said on 100% Footy last week.
Gallen was told the way it should be in 2010 when his then Sharks coach, Ricky Stuart, dispatched him to the home of Ron Massey, the former coaching advisor to Jack Gibson.
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