Paul "1 Game" Kent is upset Holmes won't talk to him... Sad Kent.
‘Who are you, seriously?’ Paul Kent smashes ‘smug’ Valentine Holmes
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Valentine Holmes is remaining tight-lipped on his NRL future.Source: News Corp Australia
NRL 360 host Paul Kent has lashed former Cronulla star Valentine Holmes following the NFL hopeful’s refusal to speak to media upon returning to Australia.
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Speculation is mounting over Holmes’ playing future, with his manager shopping around an announcement to media organisations about his client’s next steps.
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Holmes touched down from the US on Monday, but was tight-lipped when asked about whether he would continue to pursue an NFL deal or return to the NRL with a likely new club in North Queensland.
Kent said the word out of the Sharks players is they believe he has a deal with an NFL outfit. Whether his path is via free agency or league’s International Pathway Program remains to be seen.
“I think it’s ridiculous that he’s trying to sell his story and he’s trying to sit down as a half-hour special where he’s going to announce what he’s going to do,” Kent fired on
NRL 360 on
Fox League.
“Is he that big of a name? He’s not a great player, he’s a very good player and he could’ve potentially have been a great player in rugby league.
“But to sit there and carry on like this, like he’s such a superstar that he gets his own half-hour special so we can all sit there with bated breath … he employs his managers, he pays his managers and if they pay $15,000-25,000 like they’re asking, it’ll go to Val Holmes and they’ll get their sling out of it.
“Who are you, seriously? Come on. He could’ve stop (at the airport) and said ‘I can’t tell you what my plans are. I appreciate your interest. In due time I will let everybody know’, instead of skulking through the airport like he was. He’s got the hoodie on, like show some class.”
Kent said rugby league fans deserved better.
“There’s so much goodwill. There’s nobody hoping he fails,” he said.
“As a rugby league fan, part of you feels a bit excited and almost like you’re a little bit part of it, that a rugby league player can go there and make it.
“There’s all that goodwill there. So don’t treat people like mugs like he did today where he had that little smug attitude at the airport and then try and say ‘you know what, I’ve walked away from your game and now I’m trying to cop another earn to tell you I’m not coming back’.”
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Veteran journalist Phil Rothfield also took aim at Holmes’ managers.
“He’s been badly advised by his agents and I’m going to name them: Chris and Gavin Orr,”
The Daily Telegraph scribe said.
“These are the same agents that paraded Daly Cherry-Evans around a carpark at Cronulla, took him up to the Gold Coast, backflipped on them.
“They are trying to flog his story, to
Channel 9,
Channel 7,
Fox Sports. They’re shopping him around.
“Greatest respect to Val Holmes, but he hasn’t achieved anything yet.
“To put him in a situation like that, he just came across as arrogant and impolite.”
