'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.

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"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.

Curtis Sironen is connected the determination to St Helens for 2022. (Getty)

"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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