SAM BURGESS revealed how he felt confused and forced out of the fateful spell at Rugby Union, and refused £ 1 million to join Salford. ..
When Stuart Lancaster played against Wales, the Dual Code Star quite condemned England’s exit from the 2015 Home World Cup, even though Stuart Lancaster’s side was 10 points ahead.
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However, he opened the lid on how he was shifted for the match with a chord he had never played before joining Bath – and decided to return to the rugby league because of the attitude of the 15-sided chord. did.
Burgess, who has publicly accused Mike Ford, the club’s boss at the time, said: People had a huge agenda and the politics of the British rugby union was huge inside out.
“When I first moved, I never played rugby union in my life, I didn’t play games. They paid me a lot and didn’t do a lot, and I In the first game of, I had no idea what I was doing.
“I was like,’Who will teach me how to play?'” They went, “Don’t you know?” I said no. I don’t understand the rules. “
“I’m playing in the berth reserve on Monday in 10 games. 60 minutes in flanker. On Saturday for the first team, I’m off the central bench.
“In Game 12, we’re playing flanker. We’re at the top of the league and we’re going to make the Premiership the final. Then I was selected as the center for the England training team, I have to start again. It didn’t become.
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“It’s strange for people to say,’You were given the place for that team.’ I said,’You ask one of the other centers for that expanded team if I was. increase.”
“As a patriotic Englishman, I think you are English if you are English, so I noticed that it was all sorts of weird. If you support England, you support England. Yes, that’s right.
“In the UK rugby league, we are all lagging behind everyone. It’s like” fail together, succeed together, but we’re together. ” In the union, I didn’t feel it at all.
“So, after that World Cup campaign, I couldn’t work anymore for those guys. I thought,’I can’t waste my time here.’
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Burgess returned to his beloved sport and eventually rejoined the NRL side of South Sydney, who won the NRL in 2014, but there was no offer from Salford owner Marwan Koukash at the time. Not.
The 33-year-old boy was added to the by-round podcast with former England RL teammate James Graham.
“Koukash provided a small amount of cash for nine months. It was £ 1m for nine months, but he said,” I couldn’t go back to the rugby league or go to the South. “
“I had to make the best decision for my conscience. It would have been to grab money.”