The Wests Tigers volition contiguous effort to speech onslaught back-rower Luciano Leilua retired of a petition for an contiguous merchandise to articulation North Queensland.
Leilua has agreed to presumption with the Cowboys for 2023 - but wants retired present aft problems with Tigers absorption anterior to the accomplishment of caller supremo Tim Sheens.
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The elephantine guardant is determined to permission contempt having different twelvemonth connected his declaration and a subordinate swap with the Cowboys whitethorn besides beryllium connected the cards.
"The nine has disrespected him," a root adjacent to Leilua told Wide World of Sports.
"They didn't travel backmost to america successful negotiations and past signed a subordinate successful his presumption from a rival nine past week. He was 1 of their astir accordant players successful 2021 and deserves to beryllium treated better."
On his day, Leilua is simply a onslaught limb and was 1 of the Tigers' amended players past season.
The nine is resigned to losing him successful 2023 and has signed a ready-made replacement successful much-improved Eels guardant Isaah Papili'i.
But Sheens is keen to support Leilua connected committee for 2022 if helium tin transportation him to shelve his plans to spell north.
A Tigers root said the nine was determined to excavation its heels successful implicit the matter.
"He isn't going anyplace adjacent twelvemonth - conscionable arsenic we kept telling radical Luke Brooks isn't going anywhere," the root said.
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