Misty Bee
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I ask you, shuold an NRL board member make such comments?
From Foxsports.com
FORMER Kangaroo back-row partners Ben Kennedy and Gorden Tallis have become embroiled in a heated verbal tirade after the retired Queensland enforcer accused the Blues Origin hard man of "diving".
In a sour fallout from the overwhelming NSW Origin series victory, Tallis has taken aim at Kennedy - claiming the Blues forward faked being injured in Origin III.
Writing in his weekly newspaper column in The Courier Mail, Tallis accused his former Australian teammate of overplaying a slightly late hit from Maroons forward Mick Crocker.
He said: "Fair dinkum, you'd see harder hits in a primary school playground ... and that's an all-girls school. Kennedy might have fooled the commentators, the video ref and some members of the public with his 'dive', but I can assure you he wouldn't have fooled one player."
Informed of the Tallis remarks, Blues star Kennedy retaliated by suggesting the only reason the incident was still an issue in Queensland was because the Maroons were "smashed".
Kennedy and Tallis starred for Australia on the 2000 World Cup tour and packed down together for the Kangaroos as starting second-rowers against New Zealand in 2002.
"I don't really care what Gorden Tallis says, to be honest with you. He's mouthed off all of his career, it's just a stock standard thing for him," Kennedy said. "Queensland have got to try and pass the buck in some way because we embarrassed them so badly by beating them in front of a huge crowd on their home ground.
"They're obviously bitter and they're trying to push people's minds away from the fact we completely smashed them. I can understand them trying to pass the buck and not really looking in their own back yard, but I don't really care."
The incident became headline news after Origin III, when Queensland forward Crocker clipped Kennedy high around the chin with a swinging arm, leaving the Blues forward ironed out on Suncorp Stadium.
Furious Queensland forwards rushed in to lift Kennedy off the ground, hurling insults at him in the belief he was play-acting.
The NSW forward, consistently one of the Blues' best throughout the Origin series, strongly rejected the claims.
Told of Kennedy's reply, Tallis again bit back last night, saying: "Ben Kennedy is very tough now that I've retired.
"He never locked horns with me when I was playing because I didn't have No.7 or No.6 on my back.
"He had plenty of chances to run at me because I called him out often enough but he never did." Referee Paul Simpkins put the incident on report and awarded NSW a penalty.
From Foxsports.com
FORMER Kangaroo back-row partners Ben Kennedy and Gorden Tallis have become embroiled in a heated verbal tirade after the retired Queensland enforcer accused the Blues Origin hard man of "diving".
In a sour fallout from the overwhelming NSW Origin series victory, Tallis has taken aim at Kennedy - claiming the Blues forward faked being injured in Origin III.
Writing in his weekly newspaper column in The Courier Mail, Tallis accused his former Australian teammate of overplaying a slightly late hit from Maroons forward Mick Crocker.
He said: "Fair dinkum, you'd see harder hits in a primary school playground ... and that's an all-girls school. Kennedy might have fooled the commentators, the video ref and some members of the public with his 'dive', but I can assure you he wouldn't have fooled one player."
Informed of the Tallis remarks, Blues star Kennedy retaliated by suggesting the only reason the incident was still an issue in Queensland was because the Maroons were "smashed".
Kennedy and Tallis starred for Australia on the 2000 World Cup tour and packed down together for the Kangaroos as starting second-rowers against New Zealand in 2002.
"I don't really care what Gorden Tallis says, to be honest with you. He's mouthed off all of his career, it's just a stock standard thing for him," Kennedy said. "Queensland have got to try and pass the buck in some way because we embarrassed them so badly by beating them in front of a huge crowd on their home ground.
"They're obviously bitter and they're trying to push people's minds away from the fact we completely smashed them. I can understand them trying to pass the buck and not really looking in their own back yard, but I don't really care."
The incident became headline news after Origin III, when Queensland forward Crocker clipped Kennedy high around the chin with a swinging arm, leaving the Blues forward ironed out on Suncorp Stadium.
Furious Queensland forwards rushed in to lift Kennedy off the ground, hurling insults at him in the belief he was play-acting.
The NSW forward, consistently one of the Blues' best throughout the Origin series, strongly rejected the claims.
Told of Kennedy's reply, Tallis again bit back last night, saying: "Ben Kennedy is very tough now that I've retired.
"He never locked horns with me when I was playing because I didn't have No.7 or No.6 on my back.
"He had plenty of chances to run at me because I called him out often enough but he never did." Referee Paul Simpkins put the incident on report and awarded NSW a penalty.
