{"id":249888,"date":"2022-11-10T05:26:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T06:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=249888"},"modified":"2022-11-11T00:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T00:01:22","slug":"dragons-veteran-announces-shock-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=249888","title":{"rendered":"Dragons veteran announces shock retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\" title=\"S\ufefft George Illawarra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S\ufefft George Illawarra<\/a> veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/andrew-mccullough\" title=\"Andrew McCullough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew McCullough<\/a> has called time on his NRL career.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough told Dragons teammates on Thursday he will walk away with a year remaining on his contract, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/dragons-veteran-mccullough-retires-from-nrl-20221110-p5bx9s.html\" title=\"according to the Sydney Morning Herald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe 32-year-old played 309 games in the NRL, becoming the 44th player to reach the triple century milestone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/football-world-cup-2022-qatar-again-denies-claim-of-cash-offers-to-fifa-voters\/e534ac57-90d6-4af3-bc0e-12534c5d2225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Qatar responds to dark $2.3m World Cup claim<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/t20-world-cup-2022-new-zealand-timid-batting-approach-kane-williamson-questioned-after-pakistan-loss\/a8f0a672-e70a-4e0c-9a38-456fc6a3c557\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>New Zealand under microscope after &#x27;timid&#x27; World Cup exit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/draw-2023-season-every-game-highlights-winners-and-losers\/70a598b1-18c2-4211-b28b-afbf49840cf2\" title=\"Desperate Broncos handed nightmare 2023 draw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Desperate Broncos handed nightmare 2023 draw<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The majority of those came with Brisbane, where he made his debut in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough spent season 2020 at Newcastle &#8211; albeit spending most of that campaign injured &#8211; before joining the Dragons in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"5da50003-e601-4e1f-8bb2-e004fc61db4d\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5da50003-e601-4e1f-8bb2-e004fc61db4d\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"1085\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He retires having never won an NRL premiership. The closest he came was in 2015 when the Broncos lost the grand final to North Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough also played four State of Origin games for Queensland, earning a late Maroons debut in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffHis retirement is expected to open the door for Dragons junior Jayden Sullivan to spend more time in the NRL team at hooker in season 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan had been trying to leave St George Illawarra but has reportedly told the club he will now stay.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<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<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/edm?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>S\ufefft George Illawarra veteran Andrew McCullough has called time on his NRL career. McCullough told Dragons teammates on Thursday he will walk away with a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=249888\" title=\"Dragons veteran announces shock 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\/249888"}],"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=249888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249890,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249888\/revisions\/249890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}