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SEN • May 12th, 2025 12:08 pm
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Jarome Luai’s father has poured fuel on the Wests Tiger’s 64-0 embarrassment at the hands of the Melbourne Storm in a now-deleted social media post.
After five wins this season, the Tigers were truly humbled by the Storm at AAMI Park.
The Storm equalled their biggest winning margin in club history in the obliteration with Ryan Papenhuyzen breaking Matt Geyer’s 26-year record for most individual points in a Storm game, scoring 36 of 64 points.
In the aftermath of the horror defeat, Luai’s dad took to Instagram posting “Get out clause activated” with a face palm emoji.
Luai is contracted to the Tigers until 2029 but only recently it was reported that he has a clause which could see him on the market after November 1.
Questioning if there is any truth to the post, Andrew Voss brought the subject of Luai's future up on SEN Breakfast.
"Rugby league is the greatest sport but also the greatest soap opera," he said.
"Jarome Luai’s father has posted on Instagram basically throwing his son under the bus. That is so destabilising for the Tigers. We has a lot of clauses but did he need his father to buy in on a day that’s tragic for the club? Does it help the situation at all?
"Does Jarome come out now and say something publicly? I think he has to, he would be feeling bad about it.
"We will earn if there’s any truth to it depending on if he comes out and say something about it."
After five wins so far this season, Tigers were truly humbled by the Storm with coach Benji Marshall hopeful yet not convincing that the scoreline wouldn't impact his side's confidence.
“Everyone’s disappointed, embarrassed. Probably a few other words you could use, but it’s not good enough,” he said.
“There’s losing the game, and then there’s been beaten, and we got actually beat today.
“So in the balance of our season, we’re five, and five now reflect where we are, and we gotta learn from it, and we gotta get back up for next week.
“We can’t dwell on that. You can hurt from it. Take the hurt into next week and improve.
“I don’t make any excuses like we just got to be better.”
