The-moP
Well-known member
I'd like to see the club table an offer to Kyle Turner, he'd be a handy pick up .. can play front row, back row or out in the backs, always puts in 100% no matter what position he's been in.
(from zerotackle.com) ...
Free agent and premiership player Kyle Turner remains hopeful of an NRL lifeline as he sits in limbo without a team after not being given a new contract at the end of the 2019 season.
Turner, 27, was a key contributor in South Sydney’s historic 2014 premiership side and believes he can still impact the league in the same fashion next season.
I’m still on the lookout for a club, so my partner and I moved all our stuff back (to [This word has been automatically removed]abarabran) to spend some time with the family during the Christmas break and wait to see if anything comes up.
“We’ve been waiting to hear from a couple of clubs. It’s been a pretty tough year. I think there have been a lot of quality players who have had to wait towards this end part to sign. It’s pretty hard, mate, but it is what it is.
“You always hope to be signed around this time, but it just turned out this way. I’m not going to beat myself up about it. It’s a business at the end of the day so I’ve just got to take it as it comes.”
Turner made his league debut with the Rabbitohs during their grand final year and ends his South Sydney tenure with 91 NRL matches.
Despite being told to look elsewhere by his childhood club, Turner admits there are no bad feeling between him and Souths.
“Wayne came up to me, I think it was about halfway through the year, and said: ‘Look mate, as shocking as this might be, we don’t really want to get rid of you, but salary cap wise, we just can’t keep you on’,” Turner added.
“I just said: ‘Thanks mate, I appreciate the honesty’.
“It sort of gave me time to sort something out. My manager and I were both confident that something would arise, but unfortunately it just hasn’t worked out that way. It probably never does work out the way people want it to.”
(from zerotackle.com) ...
Free agent and premiership player Kyle Turner remains hopeful of an NRL lifeline as he sits in limbo without a team after not being given a new contract at the end of the 2019 season.
Turner, 27, was a key contributor in South Sydney’s historic 2014 premiership side and believes he can still impact the league in the same fashion next season.
I’m still on the lookout for a club, so my partner and I moved all our stuff back (to [This word has been automatically removed]abarabran) to spend some time with the family during the Christmas break and wait to see if anything comes up.
“We’ve been waiting to hear from a couple of clubs. It’s been a pretty tough year. I think there have been a lot of quality players who have had to wait towards this end part to sign. It’s pretty hard, mate, but it is what it is.
“You always hope to be signed around this time, but it just turned out this way. I’m not going to beat myself up about it. It’s a business at the end of the day so I’ve just got to take it as it comes.”
Turner made his league debut with the Rabbitohs during their grand final year and ends his South Sydney tenure with 91 NRL matches.
Despite being told to look elsewhere by his childhood club, Turner admits there are no bad feeling between him and Souths.
“Wayne came up to me, I think it was about halfway through the year, and said: ‘Look mate, as shocking as this might be, we don’t really want to get rid of you, but salary cap wise, we just can’t keep you on’,” Turner added.
“I just said: ‘Thanks mate, I appreciate the honesty’.
“It sort of gave me time to sort something out. My manager and I were both confident that something would arise, but unfortunately it just hasn’t worked out that way. It probably never does work out the way people want it to.”
