Jamie Thackray, Can someone pick his dummy up please? Options

[Northern Exposur...]

From TotalRL homepage



Thackray hits out at McClennan Mon 29 Jun 2009

Hull FC prop Jamie Thackray has lit the blue touch paper ahead of Saturday's showdown with his former club, Leeds, by rounding on the Rhinos' coach Brian McClennan in an explosive interview with 'Rugby League World' magazine, which hits the shelves on Friday.

Thackray moved from Hull to Leeds halfway through the 2006 season and played 32 Super League games for the Headingley club, helping them to the Grand Final in 2007, although he was left out of the Old Trafford squad, which went on to beat St Helens, by coach Tony Smith.

Smith left Leeds at the end of 2007 to focus on his new role, coaching the national team on a full-time basis. He was replaced by the New Zealander Brian McClennan, who successfully defended the Rhinos' Super League crown last season.

But Thackray failed to play a single game under McClennan, being omitted from the side on nine occasions. He was also excluded from the pre-season tour to Florida, where Leeds played Russell Crowe's South Sydney Rabbitohs. He was eventually released by the club to re-join Hull in the last week of March last year.
"When I re-joined Hull, [coach] Peter Sharp told me the grass isn't always greener and he was right," Thackray told the magazine.

"I enjoyed myself at Leeds, but Brian McClennan simply didn't want me at the club. He was a prick. He couldn't even talk to me a lot of the time - he just gave me a lot of ******** and just fobbed me off. At one point he even told me I was a gamebreaker and that Leeds had too many of those!

"At the start of 2008 the club went to Jacksonville for a pre-season trip. I was due to go but he rang me up and told me I wasn't going - he was taking one of the young lads instead. I was left at home to train with the kiddies. The door was closed on me without me knowing why.

"When they got back he told me he should have taken me and gave me a jacket [which was presented to each Leeds player by Russell Crowe]. I just gave it to one of my mates - I didn't want it after the way I'd been treated."

Hull's clash against the Rhinos this Saturday kicks off at 5.00pm, and will be broadcast live by Sky Sports.

[Just Browny]

Pretty amusing stuff. Thackray had the same game he always does yesterday - two/three impressive runs and then you hardly know he's on the field for the rest of the game.

[Bartholemew Smyt...]

All because he bad -mouthed the groiners............. Get a grip who cares apart from you.......

[southstand loine...]

if he had spent more time training and less time at the bookies and the casino then maybe his coach would have had a different attitude to him.

[Northern Exposur...]

if he had spent more time training and less time at the bookies and the casino then maybe his coach would have had a different attitude to him.

and in The Box.

[l'angelo mys...]

and in The Box.

never took him for a vampire

[southstand loine...]

never took him for a vampire

think you will find its a bar up headingley way.

[l'angelo mys...]

think you will find its a bar up headingley way.

yes I know

[Danny Boy]

First time he takes the ball up should be interesting

sorry i meant first time he takes ball and runs sideways, behind some of his own players, should be a laugh

[thepimp007]

First time he takes the ball up should be interesting

sorry i meant first time he takes ball and runs sideways, behind some of his own players, should be a laugh

surely wont be as bad as ryan bailey running away from james graham ha ha

[fieldofclothofgo...]

surely wont be as bad as ryan bailey running away from james graham ha ha

but its as good as james graham crying again and again

[Northern Exposur...]

but its as good as james graham crying again and again

'Ooh, Murrayfield is too far away'....

[LEEDSLADGONE SOU...]

Mclennan told him he was a game breaker. Thakray is such a tool. He meant that everytime he is on the pitch he breaks the game for the opposition