'Dirty' NRL legend fumes at son's ugly Manly split

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League fable Paul Sironen has slammed Manly implicit the mode the nine treated his lad Curtis successful his last twelvemonth with the nine this season.

Sironen ended 5 palmy seasons connected a sour note, playing conscionable six games earlier being told helium was escaped to permission and signing a 2 twelvemonth woody with English giants St Helens.

But the talented back-rower was plagued by a genu wounded passim the play and was astatine likelihood with the grooming and aesculapian staff, his begetter revealed.

"Curtis could consciousness his genu conscionable wasn't close but the nine were abbreviated staffed astatine the commencement of play and fundamentally guilted him into playing," said dada Paul, a erstwhile Balmain, NSW and Kangaroos star.

"He broke down arsenic a effect aboriginal successful the play and it ruined his full year.

"The country recovered 4 pieces of floating bony successful the genu and it kept causing him problems - helium had to person it drained 3 times implicit the people of the year.

"Then precocious successful the play they said they would springiness him a farewell crippled against the Bulldogs - they won easy but helium sat astir of the crippled connected the seat and got conscionable 7 minutes.

"I'm soiled connected the mode helium was treated - it wasn't close and determination was small thought fixed to his welfare."

Sironen started his vocation astatine the Tigers - wherever his dada played 2 expansive finals - earlier switching to Manly successful 2017.

The 28-year-old volition present effort to prime up the pieces of his vocation with St Helens successful Super League adjacent season.

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