SOUTH SYDNEY coach Michael *Maguire has rubbished claims he will conduct an off-season garage sale in a bid to lure back premiership heroes Sam Burgess and Ben Teo for 2016.
Responding to a report that said the club was willing to offload a host of players including Dave Tyrrell, John Sutton, Tim Grant and Jason Clark to free up the salary cap cash to lure the union converts back to the NRL, *Maguire said Burgess and Teo would not be back at Redfern in 2016. They wont be here next year, he said.
And that is about all I can say. Sam and Ben are doing what they are doing and we are doing what we are doing.
Maguire also said that he was not *attempting to push several players, *including co-captain Sutton, out of the club following the shock first-round *finals exit.
Those players are contracted, *Maguire said.
Every team has a look at their rosters going forward but those players are all contracted and I dont know where that talk has come from.
He was fantastic for our club, *Maguire said. And he will always be recognised for that. We would certainly be looking to have a talk to him if he wanted to come back to rugby league. But now he is focused on his rugby union career.
Maguire refused to accept his team became the first premiers to bomb out of the finals in week one for several years because they lost Burgess and Teo following 2014s fairytale title.
We had a number of key players *sitting on the sideline and that played the biggest part this year, he said.
We showed in a number of games what we were capable of and we just didnt do it when it mattered.
Whether that was through injury or suspension, or from a combination, we werent able to do it consistently throughout the season.
It caught up to us at the back end.
Source: Fox Sports
