{"id":114337,"date":"2021-08-10T03:30:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114337"},"modified":"2021-08-10T03:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T03:59:07","slug":"titans-cult-hero-announces-nrl-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114337","title":{"rendered":"Titans cult hero announces NRL retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/titans-thrash-titans-to-move-into-top-eight\/4788fee1-c40b-4bb6-aee1-b6366bef8628\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Titans\">Titans<\/a>&#x27; all-time leading try-scorer, cult hero Anthony Don, has announced he will retire from the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"NRL\">NRL<\/a> at the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p>Don has crossed for 85 tries since making his NRL debut with Gold Coast against <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/parramatta-eels\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Parramatta\">Parramatta<\/a> in Round Six, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has played 152 games across nine seasons with the Titans.<\/p>\n<p>While Don has long been a tremendous servant for the Titans, he hasn&#x27;t managed to be a consistent first-grade starter this season, with Corey Thompson and Greg Marzhew the preferred wingers.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Coast coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/justin-holbrook\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Justin Holbrook\">Justin Holbrook<\/a> paid tribute to the impact Don had had at the Titans.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I would like to wish the Don family of Anthony, Sam and Frankie all the best for life after footy,&quot; Holbrook said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Donny has invested a lot of time and hard work into this club and he deserves the accolade of being the Titans&#x27; top try-scorer.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;His professionalism and the high standards he sets for himself have been reflected in the number of first-grade games that he&#x27;s achieved over the past nine years.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"abfde440-92f9-4a4e-9e2e-79cf4d63db48\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/abfde440-92f9-4a4e-9e2e-79cf4d63db48\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Titans&#x27; all-time leading try-scorer, cult hero Anthony Don, has announced he will retire from the NRL at the end of this season. Don has <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114337\" title=\"Titans cult hero announces NRL retirement\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114339,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114337\/revisions\/114339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}