Big Mal says Jarryd must repay club
KANGAROOS coach Mal Meninga believes Jarryd Hayne will have let the Titans down if the Blues Origin star switches to a Sydney club.
Speaking at the captain’s run ahead of Australia’s clash with France tonight, Meninga claimed Hayne had not played well enough to warrant an exit.
“I think he’s let the Titans down,” Meninga said.
“He hasn’t played well enough to do that. I think he needs to make sure that he stays at the club and plays the best he possibly can for them.
“They’re the ones who invested in him and he hasn’t invested back in the club.”
Meninga agreed Hayne’s role in Neil Henry’s dismissal made his potential exit all the more hurtful.
“Yeah, I agree with that,” Meninga said.
“I think that’s pretty ordinary what happened there. That’s just my thoughts.”
As a host of player movements engulf the code, with Hayne, Cooper Cronk and Mitchell Pearce chief among them, Meninga claimed that he had no issue with such transfers in the NRL.
“I don’t mind that, as long as they’re committed to the club they’re currently at,” he said.
“They put the effort in through the year and then they choose to leave?
“I’m happy with that. But if they don’t put the effort in ... you’ve got an obligation to stay at the club.”