Genia remains a Red
30 Apr 2012
Will Genia has backtracked on his decision to join the Force and signed a new contract with the Reds.
Reports surfaced over the weekend that Genia had been offered a A$600,000 per season contract to join the Force. It looked to be a done deal with the Reds unable to match the Force’s offer, that is until the Reds beat the Blues and Genia had a change of heart.
‘I’d been thinking about it all weekend… The main reason I wanted to stay was just the feeling of satisfaction I got after that game against the Blues,’ Genia said.
‘And just the scary thought of not feeling that way after a game playing for another club. That was when I knew that I couldn’t leave.’
The Reds had announced that Genia would be leaving the union on Saturday, but the Wallabies scrumhalf called coach Ewen McKenzie on Sunday to say that he’d changed his mind.
‘It isn’t about money, it’s about being happy,’ Genia said. ‘I’m willing to sacrifice that to stay with my mates and be somewhere I enjoy.
‘I had a chat with a few of the senior players and told them of my decision [to leave]. I’d made my mind up and changed it several times.
‘Having those discussions with some of the senior players made it quite tough, you know, just to see the way they reacted towards me potentially leaving and how that made me feel. And that definitely weighed into my decision.’
Genia has signed a three-year contract extension with the Reds.
16 Comments
30 Apr 2012, 07:09 am
wtf is going on with this dragon?
30 Apr 2012, 07:12 am
yup you see .. been right all along
Money most definitely ain’t everything
and Genia’s nagging doubts just proved it
30 Apr 2012, 07:15 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-2:
and you would know hey……….
30 Apr 2012, 07:16 am
Brett Sheehan been in such good form.
Genia just doesn’t want to be sitting on the bench behind him is all.
30 Apr 2012, 07:20 am
ah chrst Brett Sheehan .. c’mon that overrated quakka chucker
and some people pride themselves at their self aggrandized so called knowledge of rugby
Sheehan vs Genia…. you gotta be in some kind of coma or something
30 Apr 2012, 07:23 am
@whatever(whatever)-3:
skoppelos uses the same principle in paying his workers…he tells them money ain’t everything…
30 Apr 2012, 07:35 am
never doubted you, Will.
30 Apr 2012, 08:12 am
@hendrikp(hendrikp)-4:
no, in a crunch tight game at the edge of the abyss i would rather have genia cleaning from the base than sheehan.
sheehan is good but genia is better.
30 Apr 2012, 08:15 am
@houston, we have a problem…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-8:
Genia has had a poor few months starting after the S15 win last year, maybe he will relax a little more now and get back to his old self.
30 Apr 2012, 08:17 am
Force cannot afford the $600k now they have to increase Pocock’s salary with the Rebels in negotiations…
30 Apr 2012, 08:19 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-10:
Another gaff by Fox Sport there saying he resigned just for him to say after the match nothing has been finalised!
30 Apr 2012, 08:26 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-11:
Suppose he’d all but resigned… it was the Reds that notified the press that he was leaving…
30 Apr 2012, 09:42 am
seems a load of scrambled egg hit the fan…
30 Apr 2012, 10:29 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-9:
yip, still pick him in the wallabie side though.
30 Apr 2012, 13:22 pm
bloody melodrama
blame the agent
30 Apr 2012, 13:26 pm
Maybe he realised he is not worth that amount of money.
Awww….
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