Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Cowboys proud of NRL player welfare: Parr

North Queensland's Peter Parr says the Cowboys remain by their player administration after Kalyn Ponga's dad asserted they were dismissing the young person's welfare.

Source: AAP

6 DEC 2016 - 2:52 PM UPDATED YESTERDAY 2:52 PM

North Queensland football administrator Peter Parr says the Cowboys are glad for their player administration after Kalyn Ponga's dad guaranteed the club was ignoring the NRL wonder's welfare.

Ponga's father Andre told News Corp that North Queensland ought to "make the best choice" and discharge the adolescent from the last year of his Cowboys contract in the wake of dropping out with the club.

The Cowboys have expressed they have "no expectation" of discharging Ponga one year from now after the youth as of late marked a lucrative four-year manage Newcastle from 2018.

"We are pleased with our club, of what we look like after our kin both inside and remotely - that is all I need to state," Parr said.

The Knights have stayed cheerful that Ponga will get a discharge in the wake of eating up the 18-year-old with only two NRL diversions encounter on an arrangement purportedly worth $700,000 a year.

Also, Newcastle looked nearer to getting their desire after Ponga's dad asserted "things went pearshaped" at the Cowboys after his child thumped back a two-year expansion in April.

He guaranteed he now had attentiveness toward his child's welfare in light of the fact that the club had made it hard for the adolescent to proceed with his college thinks about.

"It's left Kalyn frustrated in light of the fact that they are not offering any support to him," he told News Corp.

Kangaroos mentor Mal Meninga has since upheld the Cowboys, saying Ponga would get the improvement expected to handle the extreme Newcastle spotlight with one more year at North Queensland.

Meninga even said Newcastle must "take care of business" with Ponga's welfare.

"They have to ... attempt to secure him as much as they can from the weight and desires that will be on him," he told Queensland Former Origin Greats site.

Meninga let it be known was an "overcome move" to sign with wooden spooners Newcastle however was simply happy Ponga had stayed with the NRL.

"We as a whole realize that the (AFL's) Brisbane Lions and (rugby union's) Queensland Reds were pursuing pretty vigorously for him, and it would have been the most dire outcome imaginable to see Kalyn go to another code," he said.

"I figure many individuals were astonished that he wound up marking with Newcastle.

"I think it is an overcome move, since they are clearly a club that has a considerable measure of revamping to do after the wreckage of the previous few seasons.

"As a club, the Knights needed to accomplish something.

"What's more, in Kalyn, they can clearly observe a youthful person that they can fabricate a club around for what's to come."

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