Justin Tkatchenko, the Minister for Sports and National Events, has blasted the Opposition Leader Don Polye for the “constant stream of negative nonsense’’ that has now seen the Opposition seek to abandon national rugby league players.
Mr Polye yesterday called for a shift in funding priority for rugby to other sporting codes like soccer, swimming, rugby union among others, in which ‘our sports personnel excel’.
“We cannot continue to waste taxpayers’ money in a sporting code which secures low ranking in the world index,” he said.
