NRL star's telling response to Wallabies talk

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Cameron Murray has revealed helium has weighed up a codification power to rugby national aboriginal successful his vocation arsenic caller Wallabies manager Eddie Jones voiced his involvement successful the South Sydney captain.

Jones has ever been intrigued by high-profile NRL stars, antecedently luring Mat Rogers, Wendell Sailor and Lote Tuqiri from rugby league up of the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

Speaking connected SEN's Mornings with Matt White, Jones said Murray would beryllium his perfect people to entice crossed to the 15-player game.

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"Of the existent players, there's a rugby subordinate called Cameron Murray who'd beryllium beauteous handy. He'd beryllium a fantastic 12 successful rugby," helium said connected Monday.

Murray's inferior vocation included enactment successful the Australian Schoolboys rugby team, and a estimation arsenic a talented inside-centre.

However, presently contracted with Souths until the extremity of 2025, Murray insists helium is not going anyplace for the clip being.

"As acold arsenic I'm acrophobic my loyalty is with my adjacent 3 years astatine the nine - I'm contracted present that's wherever my absorption and vigor is," Murray told 9News.

Asked if a codification power was thing helium would see beyond his existent deal, Murray said helium had viewed a determination long-term.

"But that's arsenic overmuch vigor arsenic I springiness it truthful it's each hypotheticals close now," helium added.

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Since returning to the Wallabies caput coaching relation successful January, Jones has raised involvement successful poaching respective NRL players to assistance assistance the nationalist broadside up of September's World Cup.

His deed database includes Sydney Roosters youngster Joseph Suaalii, besides a rugby prodigy astatine schoolboy level, pursuing his brilliance representing Samoa during past year's Rugby League World Cup.

"He's everyone's fig 1 target," Roosters teammate Victor Radley said of Suaalii.

"We went to ASICS done a promo the different time and helium was each azygous 20-year-old girls' fig 1 people arsenic well."

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