{"id":10900,"date":"2018-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/nrl-superstar-was-15-minutes-away-from-joining-afl-club-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:00:00","slug":"nrl-superstar-was-15-minutes-away-from-joining-afl-club-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/nrl-superstar-was-15-minutes-away-from-joining-afl-club-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL Superstar Was \u201c15 Minutes\u201d Away From Joining AFL Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Rugby league great Greg Inglis was just minutes away from defecting from the NRL and joining Essendon in the AFL, according to a report.<\/h3>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph has published quotes from an unnamed but \u201cwell-placed source close to Essendon\u201d who says the club struck a verbal agreement with Inglis in 2010.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere had been a number of discussions. The AFL was on board with it,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInglis was told he wasn\u2019t going to get the clearance to play for Souths due to salary cap reasons. We agreed that if he didn\u2019t, he was playing for the Bombers. We had a verbal agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NRL was told they had half an hour to make up their mind or Inglis would be playing for Essendon next season. It was all systems go from Essendon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NRL rang up at the last minute and he stayed in rugby league,\u201d the source confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt went right down to the wire.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Greg Inglis was 15 minutes away from a shock move to Essendon in 2010, even telling Essendon&#39;s coach and CEO: &quot;I\u2019m playing AFL&quot;, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulldogRitchie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BulldogRitchie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mhtiglgaTS\">https:\/\/t.co\/mhtiglgaTS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WugceQpfdp\">pic.twitter.com\/WugceQpfdp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Telegraph Sport (@telegraph_sport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telegraph_sport\/status\/1037841021609160704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby league great Greg Inglis was just minutes away from defecting from the NRL and joining Essendon in the AFL, according to a report. The Daily Telegraph has published quotes from an unnamed but \u201cwell-placed source close to Essendon\u201d who says the club struck a verbal agreement with Inglis in 2010. \u201cThere had been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-10900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NRL Superstar Was \u201c15 Minutes\u201d Away From Joining AFL Club - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/nrl-superstar-was-15-minutes-away-from-joining-afl-club-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NRL Superstar Was \u201c15 Minutes\u201d Away From Joining AFL Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rugby league great Greg Inglis was just minutes away from defecting from the NRL and joining Essendon in the AFL, according to a report. 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