{"id":20726,"date":"2021-01-11T03:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T04:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=20726"},"modified":"2021-01-11T06:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:20:13","slug":"glamour-club-makes-unexpected-bid-for-benji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=20726","title":{"rendered":"Glamour club makes unexpected bid for Benji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Roosters are set to make a late bid to sign former Kiwi superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/benji-marshall\" title=\"Benji Marshall\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benji Marshall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At 35, Marshall was considering retiring after not being re-signed by Wests Tigers at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall has been shopped around throughout the NRL but <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/benji-marshall-2021-season-hull-fc-north-queensland-cowboys-contracts\/40880e72-1d12-460b-a3fd-b9c7773fc0c0\" title=\"up until now there hasn&#x27;t been any takers\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up until now there hasn&#x27;t been any takers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"ee1b0006-7fe0-4fbf-862d-e42d53809231\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ee1b0006-7fe0-4fbf-862d-e42d53809231\" alt=\"Benji Marshall of the Tigers \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/sydney-roosters\" title=\"the Roosters\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Roosters<\/a> are nervous about their halfback options and are attempting to get Marshall into their ranks for $150,000 for one season.<\/p>\n<p>The club has doubts over Luke Keary&#x27;s health following a series of concussions in the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>They cut Kyle Flanagan at the end of last season and have two options in Sam Walker and Lachlan Lam &#8211; but both are young and lacking in NRL experience.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"36155898-23af-4716-beda-ae2918f64f8e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/36155898-23af-4716-beda-ae2918f64f8e\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marshall has a wealth of experience and would give the Roosters more options in attack.<\/p>\n<p>While he has lost some of his pace, he remains a big match player and is keen to have one last season.<\/p>\n<p>After he hangs up his boots, a TV commentary contract awaits.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <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=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Sydney Roosters are set to make a late bid to sign former Kiwi superstar Benji Marshall. At 35, Marshall was considering retiring after not <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=20726\" title=\"Glamour club makes unexpected bid for Benji\">[&#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\/20726"}],"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=20726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20728,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions\/20728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}