Crichton looks 支援する on Fifita saga with a smile
Angus Crichton 持つ/拘留するs no ill will に向かって David Fifita にもかかわらず admitting the Gold Coast 難破させるing ball almost cost him his 職業 at the Sydney Roosters.
This Friday's NRL 衝突/不一致 with Gold Coast would've been Fifita's first against the 巨人s as a Rooster had he not backflipped on a handshake 協定 and 調印するd a new two-year 取引,協定 to stay put on the Glitter (土地などの)細長い一片.
When the Roosters were all-in on Fifita last May, it appeared fellow off-契約 second-rower Crichton was going to be left out in the 冷淡な.
Penrith were one of the clubs with whom Crichton made 接触する as he began coming to 条件 with the fact he was no longer 要求するd at the club where he won the 2019 首相の職.
Instead, Fifita's 素晴らしい backflip 覆うd the way for the Roosters to patch things up with Crichton and 調印する him to a new two-year 取引,協定.
"事情に応じて変わる doors moments, it's funny, I probably could've been talking to you guys in a different jersey if it (the Fifita 調印) happened," Crichton told reporters.
"It's funny how the world 作品 and it'll be funny going up against each other again but it's all love."
Fifita and Crichton 直面するd off in 一連の会議、交渉/完成する 25 last season after the 調印 debacle, and caught up 簡潔に while the 巨人s were in Sydney to 直面する Canterbury earlier this month.
Ahead of their first 衝突/不一致 this season, Crichton 持つ/拘留するs no animosity に向かって the man who was one swivel of a pen away from 軍隊ing him out of the Roosters.
"It's the past," said Crichton, who played と一緒に Fifita with the Junior Kangaroos in 2019.
"There's no bad 血 between me and him at all. 明白に when we've played each other we've had a few little b attles.
"I'm sure nothing will be different when we play each other on the 週末. I've got nothing but 尊敬(する)・点 for him as a person and as a player."
A direct player 交換(する) with million-dollar man Fifita would've ふさわしい Crichton just 罰金.
"I didn't speak to them (the 巨人s) but I wouldn't have minded living up on the Gold Coast. Burleigh's やめる a nice place, I'll take his 支払う/賃金 packet 同様に!" Crichton joked.
But for now, Crichton is content to remain with the Roosters after years of also 存在 linked with a return to his boyhood code of rugby union.
"I'm 明白に 調印するd here for the next two years and that's where I see myself for the foreseeable 未来," Crichton said.