{"id":120863,"date":"2022-07-28T15:56:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/?p=120863"},"modified":"2022-07-28T15:56:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T05:56:37","slug":"controversial-former-nrl-stars-wife-hits-out-at-nrl-over-jersey-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/controversial-former-nrl-stars-wife-hits-out-at-nrl-over-jersey-comments-120863\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial former NRL star’s wife hits out at NRL over jersey comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/players\/israel-folau\/\">Israel Folau<\/a>'s wife has hit out at the NRL on her <em>Instagram<\/em> account, questioning the level of 'hypocrisy' from Australian Rugby League Commission Chairman Peter V'Landys.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/manly-sea-eagles\/\">Manly Sea Eagles<\/a>' pride jersey controversy has taken a majority of NRL headlines this week, and Folau's wife Maria wasted little time in taking a shot at V'Landys, who said during the week that players religious and cultural beliefs had to be respected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all human beings at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at the same time, you have to respect the player\u2019s religious and cultural beliefs. Those players are taking a stance, and they have every right to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/players\/israel-folau\/\">Israel Folau<\/a> has a controversial history around issues such as these, having had his Rugby Australian contract torn up over a number of social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>He then looked to return to the NRL around the time V'Landys became chairman of the ARLC, only for V'Landys to label Folau's comments 'not inclusive.'<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game is inclusive. The comments of Israel are not inclusive,\" V'landys said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Folau has now hit out on Instagram with a screenshot of the comments, suggesting V'Landys had been hypocritical in the way he had handled the Manly situation against how he had handled any possible contract opportunity in the NRL.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2022\/07\/295704921_939991860735627_6291308053451052108_n.png.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2022\/07\/295704921_939991860735627_6291308053451052108_n.png.webp 651w, https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2022\/07\/295704921_939991860735627_6291308053451052108_n-560x675.png.webp 560w, https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2022\/07\/295704921_939991860735627_6291308053451052108_n-349x420.png.webp 349w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\"The hyspocrisy [sic] from this man and this organisation. What a joke,\" read the post.<\/p>\n<p>Folau, following his stints with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/melbourne-storm\/\">Melbourne Storm<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/brisbane-broncos\/\">Brisbane Broncos<\/a> between 2007 and 2010 where he played 91 games and 8 State of Origins, went on to play both AFL and rugby union, representing the Wallabies in 73 Tests between 2013 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Aiming for a return to rugby league, he played 15 games for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/catalan-dragons\/\">Catalans Dragons<\/a> in 2020, as well as spending some time in the local Gold Coast competition, before playing Japanese rugby this year with the Shining Arcs and making his Test debut for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/tonga\/\">Tonga<\/a> just a number of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Minto-born 33-year-old is till currently linked with the Shining Arcs in Japanese rugby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She took exception to the chairman’s comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9988,"featured_media":63916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[454,6],"coauthors":[15143],"class_list":{"0":"post-120863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel-folau","8":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - 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