St George Illawarra coach Shane Flanagan has a conversation with Ben Hunt about his future at the club.
It was the Friday before the Manly game in round four when St George Illawarra coach Shane Flanagan asked Ben Hunt for a quiet word.
“I asked him, ‘What are you thinking about in the long term, and what does life look like for you at the end of next year?’” Flanagan says. “I know he has bought some property, that he’s been thinking the end is near, and how he might head home to country Queensland to retire. Ben Hunt is open to staying on one more year in 2026 at St George Illawarra, just nine months after he asked for an immediate release.“He’s got plenty, and just once I’d love him to walk into my office with two coffees, not one,” Flanagan says with a smile. “They’re not that expensive, and knowing Benny, he’s struck up a contra deal with the local coffee shop.”
Gallen was tired of losing at the Sharks, and was tempted to join Manly on a big-money deal and the chance to join a club in the premiership window. But he stayed, drank Flanagan’s Kool-Aid and became the first Cronulla skipper to hold up the premiership trophy in 2016.“Gal was like a son to me,” Flanagan says. “You have your arguments, your good times, your bad times, and you always get on with it.
“But he’s the captain of this club. I knew what his issues were last year. But I was never going to let him walk out the door. If I showed faith in him, he’d return it.”As for that conversation at the back of WIN Stadium a couple of weeks ago at the barbie, Hunt says he had not given his long-term future much thought until then.
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