NRL information 2024 | Chad Townsend indicators with Roosters; Chad Townsend-Paul Gallen feud; Cronulla Sharks premiership
Sharks nice Paul Gallen has moved to make clear feedback round his “falling out” with premiership teammate Chad Townsend.
Gallen prompted a stir on Saturday when he revealed on 2GB’s Steady Name Crew that the 2 “do not get on” earlier than describing his signing on the Roosters as a “shock”.
Regardless of the success of 2016 when the Sharks gained their first ever premiership, each males clearly do not share an in depth bond.
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Gallen revealed an argument years in the past led to the animosity.
“You may have arguments with blokes over time and that is simply half and parcel of life,” he stated on 9’s 100% Footy.
“You do not at all times agree with folks over sure issues and me and Chad had a little bit of an argument a number of years in the past and have not spoken an excessive amount of since, however what’s occurred occurs.”
Chad Townsend and Paul Gallen do not get alongside regardless of profitable a premiership collectively. Getty/9
Townsend will be a part of the Roosters as again as much as Sam Walker and Sandon Smith after signing with the membership final week.
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Gallen doubled down on his take of the recruitment choice, describing it as “bizarre”.
“Once I bought this job, I’ve at all times maintained I will be trustworthy for my part of the sport and I do suppose it is a bizarre signing for the Roosters, it is not a standard signing for the Roosters to signal a 34-year-old halfback with one yr to go while you’ve bought blokes like Sandon Smith and (Sam) Walker there,” he stated.
“I simply thought it was a bizarre signing.
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“Once I was requested about it on radio folks had been like, ‘hold on a second aren’t you mates?’
“We had a falling out a pair years in the past, however there is not any beef there, we’re large boys, we are able to have an argument and transfer on and we’ll simply depart it there.”
