Tyson Statovci

And, I mean, make of that what you want.

I mean, if I was playing State of Origin, I don't think it would take a lot for me to get up.

I don't think a coach making a speech would mean I play one way or another.

But, yeah, look, I –

I wasn't the one who spoke to the players, so I don't know which players.

They were blindly quoted, which, I mean, you can understand why.

I heard some commentary around, you know, players wanting to come out.

If a player wants to say something like this, they should come out and put their name to it.

If a player does that, they're losing their origin spot.

They're probably losing, you know, club respect and things like that.

So everyone's got their own agendas with this.

But what I do like is that Cam Murray, a senior player in the squad, came out, backed his coach.

Because you know what, like,

But whether it's true or not, you need that camp to be soaring if they're going to win tonight.

If you were showing a divided front or running away from that commentary, like that story comes out and we don't hear anything about it, all of a sudden, all that outside noise, and players will tell you the outside noise doesn't get to us, it doesn't get to us.

I promise you it does.

So that's the gist of it.

Look, I've got no doubt that there's definitely truth to this.

Like anyone that says they've made up this story and that's why.

History speaks for itself.