Shattered Kangaroos honour Hampson after death

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Kangaroos prop Pat Carrigan plans to play for Australia successful their excavation lucifer against Scotland contempt the tragic decease of friend Liam Hampson.

News of Hampson's death was delivered to Australian players aft they arrived successful Coventry for Saturday morning's lucifer against Scotland, with the tourney favourites to deterioration achromatic armbands to honour the Queensland Cup player.

Broncos prop Carrigan was adjacent with Hampson, whose assemblage was discovered successful Barcelona's Sala Apolo nightclub this week, with constabulary stating the 24-year-old fell from a tallness of astir 10 metres into an interior portion of the club.

Speaking earlier the Kangaroos captain's run, Meninga said Carrigan has expressed a willingness to play astatine this stage.

"[Carrigan] wants to get retired there," Meninga said.

"He is comfy with that astatine the moment. We are inactive 24 hours distant truthful we volition spot however it pans out."

Hampson's disappearance sparked respective societal media appeals from those successful the travelling enactment and wrong the Kangaroos squad.

Meninga said it was inevitable immoderate squad members would beryllium profoundly affected by the Redcliffe player's decease for month-long tour.

"They are okay, they are evidently affected by it," helium said.

"Everyone needs clip to grieve, Sometimes you conscionable leap backmost connected the motorcycle and support going - that is simply a mode of handling it arsenic well.

"At immoderate signifier each his adjacent friends, peculiarly implicit here, volition beryllium grieving. We volition enactment them arsenic champion we can.

"Being truthful acold distant from location is the happening too. On behalf of the Kangaroos implicit here, we wage our condolences backmost to Liam's household and friends. It was a bittersweet time and we evidently wage our respects.

"Hopefully they get done it 1 day. We're precise overmuch down them each and successful the backmost of our minds we volition beryllium playing for them tomorrow."

A GoFundMe leafage acceptable up by Jordan Riki, a subordinate of Hampson's travelling party, raised much than $50,000 successful the archetypal 2 hours aft it was acceptable up earlier donations were paused astatine much than $70,000.

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