Liam Martin has laughed off Cameron Munster’s claims he never really liked him when they were Kangaroos teammates, insisting: “I thought we were fine, but obviously we’re not – I don’t really care.”
Storm playmaker Munster fired the first barb of grand final week on Monday when he spoke about Panthers’ firebrand Martin, the pair having clashed regularly at club and Origin level.
“It’s funny, looking back on it, we didn’t really like each other in Aussie camps,” Munster told reporters in Melbourne.
“He’s tried to get under my skin and it worked a fair few times. I have just got to go out there and not get frazzled.”
Martin told this masthead on Tuesday: “I don’t know where he’s coming from. I was surprised by that. If he feels like that, that’s alright. It doesn’t matter.
“I’ve got a lot of respect for him, …