'Grow up': Fuming Slater torches media boycott

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League icon Billy Slater has urged some the NRL and Rugby League Players Association to "grow up" arsenic the players' media boycott nears a full month.

The bitter wage quality shows nary motion of ending betwixt the 2 parties, with players inactive refusing to talk to the media connected crippled days.

Slater did not mince his words erstwhile asked astir his thoughts connected the media boycott.

"Seriously, turn up. Both parties request to turn up and conscionable enactment this out," helium told Wide World of Sports' The Billy Slater Podcast.

Billy Slater has had capable of the media boycott of NRL players arsenic a effect of the wage quality (Paul Kane via Getty Images)

"The players not talking to the media, this is getting ridiculous now. Can we conscionable turn up and conscionable enactment this out? I don't understand.

"To ticker a crippled of footy and not perceive from the players aft the game, I don't recognize however we can't beryllium down and enactment thing out."

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Slater admitted that helium didn't caput the media boycott initially, but suggested it had dragged connected acold excessively long.

"I didn't consciousness similar this erstwhile it archetypal happened, similar marque your point, just enough, (but) that was 3 weeks ago, we were successful Origin camp. That was truthful agelong ago," helium said.

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"We've got beauteous bully connection these days, you tin prime up the phone, you tin get connected a zoom call, you tin really spell and spot people, let's benignant this out.

"That's the increasing up portion that I don't understand.

"For this to resistance retired for 3 weeks, radical are conscionable excessively stubborn, that's each it is. What's 3 weeks?

"Are we going to spell to 3 months? Is this going to spell done the finals? It's not necessary."

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