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Robbie Farah dropped to New South Wales Cup

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20th July, 2016
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Sests Tigers and New South Wales Blues hooker and vice-captain Robbie Farah has been dumped to reserve grade.

Despite being named on the bench to play when teams were announced on Tuesday Afternoon for the round ahead, Farah has since been dropped.

It seems a strange decision for the struggling Tigers outfit to undertake, given they have lost one of their hookers Matt Ballin to injury for the rest of the season, after being out for most of the first half of the season.

Farah’s form has been questionable for the Tigers, but he seemed to get the job done for New South Wales during the recent Origin series.

Farah’s axing was first reported by Josh Massoud on Twitter.

It could provide the fuel to re-ignite the fire and arguments between the Wests Tigers board and Farah, who went from the clubs favourite sun to being at war with the board and coach Jason Taylor.

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Many in the media believe he was behind the sacking of the club’s previous coach, Michael Potter, and has never got on with Taylor.

The club wanted to release Farah at the end of last year, but with his contract still in effect Farah refused to go. Threats were made that one of the club’s highest paid players would remain glued in reserve grade, although that hasn’t been carried out.

Farah has spent a lot of this season on the bench though, and being named there against the similarly struggling St George Illawarra Dragons this weekend wasn’t a great surprise, but this new information is a nasty blow for Farah and the situation could develop further throughout the week.

He will play in the NSW Cup clash against the Newtown Jets at Leichhardt Oval.

Wests Tigers can confirm that Robbie Farah will not play for the Club’s first-grade team on Sunday against the St. George-Illawarra Dragons.

Head Coach Jason Taylor informed Farah on Wednesday that he will not be in the NRL team to face St. George-Illawarra this Sunday.
“This was not an easy decision to make, but I have selected the 17 players that I believe will give the Club the best chance of victory against the Dragons,” Taylor said.

“Robbie is understandably disappointed, but I have spoken at length with him that he will be given every opportunity to regain his position in the NRL team.”

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Farah will play for the Club’s Intrust Super Premiership team on Saturday, July 23 against Newtown Jets at Leichhardt Oval.

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