Clue that Benji will play on but there's a catch

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NRL fable Benji Marshall conceded "everyone wants to know" if we saw him play for the past clip successful the Rabbitohs' heartbreaking expansive last loss but the champion helium could bash was enactment a unsmooth timeline connected his decision, with the 36-year-old expecting to person his caput made up by the extremity of this week.

The champion playmaker played a insignificant relation successful past night's decider, coming connected with the crippled inactive successful the equilibrium with astir 10 minutes remaining but incapable to find the magic instrumentality his squad desperately craved to bargain the premiership from the Panthers.

He was typically gracious with his time, and diligent with the status questions instantly aft the game, but arsenic he's done passim his vocation helium near his fans wanting more.

"Obviously everyone wants to cognize what I'm doing but we'll conscionable get done the adjacent fewer days and past I'll measure it possibly Wednesday oregon Thursday," Marshall told Darren Lockyer successful an on-field interrogation for Nine.

While helium was giving precise small away, the fewer hints Marshall did supply suggested that he's leaning towards continuing into 2022 - but lone if a beardown nine gives him the close opportunity.

He said helium was rejuvenated by 2021, having walked into a Wayne Bennett tally cognition that indispensable person felt a satellite distant from the dumpster occurrence that is the Wests Tigers, a nine that severely needs statesmen similar him to crook astir the civilization but chewed him up and spat him retired successful a bizarre show of radical manangement past year.

The words "grateful" and "exciting" summed up his acquisition successful the crippled this season, aft linking with a nine wherever helium was wanted, appreciated, and astir importantly, was treated with the benignant of respect and integrity a subordinate of his lasting successful the crippled is entitled to expect.

'They've been penalties each year'

"Extremely grateful I deliberation much than anything, to person the accidental to correspond this large nine and play with the players that I got to play with this year," Marshall told Lockyer erstwhile asked however helium was feeling.

"I made the No.14 jersey my ain this twelvemonth by conscionable enjoying it. I got to play with guys similar Latrell Mitchell and Cody Walker and those guys truly made it breathtaking but property is conscionable a number, if you inactive crook up and bask each time astatine grooming and connected the tract past wherefore not?"

Why not indeed, and that appears to beryllium the tone with which Marshall volition find his aboriginal erstwhile the post-season celebrations decorativeness successful the adjacent mates of days.

He said helium wouldn't fuss utilizing Wayne Bennett arsenic a sounding board, but lone due to the fact that helium feels similar helium knows himself good capable by present that nary outer proposal volition trump his instincts.

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"I mightiness usage his words connected him; if I consciousness similar I'm washed up I'll springiness it away. But nup, immoderate I think's best, I deliberation I'll cognize successful the bottommost of my bosom if I deliberation it's clip oregon not," Marshall said.

"My wife's precise supportive, she wants maine to bash what I think's champion but we'll spot man, I don't know, it's hard to process aft that, you know, that benignant of year, spot what the options are implicit the adjacent mates of days, observe the play we had with the boys, it's pugnacious to suffer but we did person a beauteous bully season, truthful we'll spot what happens."

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