Wantaway Dragons halfback Ben Hunt has now reportedly resigned to the very fact he’ll play below Shane Flanagan in 2024.
However, in line with the SMH, the 33-year-old will now try to pressure an exit forward of the 2025 season in his hunt for a premiership.
Hunt has reportedly been knowledgeable the Dragons can be making a lot of large signings below their new coach.
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He is sweating on the arrivals, with the membership being linked to each Joey Manu and Joseph Suaalii in current weeks.
Manu can be free to barter with rivals come November 1, whereas Suaalii solely has one yr remaining within the NRL earlier than he joins Rugby Australia on a mammoth contract.
After sitting down along with his supervisor Col Davis, it reportedly turned clear to the skilled halfback he received’t have the ability to go away the membership.
Both the Broncos and Titans have been reportedly considering his providers if he was to be granted a launch from his contract.
Now Flanagan can be tasked with getting the perfect out of Hunt, who earlier this season instructed the membership he needed out.
While the halfback could also be angling for a transfer in 2025, the discharge of younger gun Jayden Sullivan sophisticated a possible transfer, being his apparent substitute.
Flanagan has beforehand revealed that Hunt can be on the membership for the 2024 season.
“Ben will be there next year, I’ve spoken to Ben and I think we’ve sort of put that to bed and he’ll be at the club next year,” Flanagan mentioned on 2GB.
“I met with him before the game, I put my coach’s hat on with him and said to him ‘Ben, as the coach I’m not letting you go, you’re my captain, you’re my halfback, I’m not letting you go and I’ve got the support of the club there, they don’t want you to go’.
“We had that discussion, he said ‘I understand Flanno, I understand completely’ … the conversation went on and we started to talk about next year.”
Source web site: www.foxsports.com.au
