Luai snubs Tigers awards night in sad end to controversial chapter

Sport NRL NRL Luai snubs Tigers awards night in sad end to controversial chapter Damien McCartney September 16, 2026 - 2.09am

shares Share article Jarome Luai ’s two-year tenure at the Wests Tigers has ended on another sour note after he elected to skip the club’s end-of-year awards night.

Instead, the Eels -then- Chiefs bound star has spent the past week on a World Cup promotional trip in Samoa with Storm gun Sua Faalogo and Eels enforcer Junior Paulo .

Jarome Luai skipped the club’s end-of-season awards night. Getty Images

About the same time the Tigers announced Alex Twal had won the Kelly-Barnes Medal for the club’s best and fairest on Tuesday night, Luai reshared to Instagram a Rugby League Samoa video from the trip.