https:\/\/twitter.com\/9NewsSyd\/status\/1364849408442048514<\/a><\/p>\n "Now I'm pretty much over it – it did hurt at the time, I didn't see my time coming to an end just like that," he told Nine's Danny Weidler.<\/p>\n "There's no really perfect scenario to kind of have those discussions, but if you were going to ask me 'how do I picture my end at Penrith?' it definitely wasn't that.<\/p>\n "It wasn't how I thought I was going to be told. There's definitely a better way."<\/p>\n Despite a decade in first grade, Mansour revealed that he had never spoken to new coach Wayne Bennett, even after he had inked a two-year deal with the Redfern club in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n "I didn't even have a conversation with him before I signed," he laughed.<\/p>\n After signing on a Monday, his first function at his new club was two days later at a team dinner.<\/p>\n "End up parking in the car park, and who do I see across the road? Wayne," he said.<\/p>\n Mansour says he's settled in nicely, and that it was good there was at least one familiar face from his previous stint at the Rabbitohs, which saw him named in the 2010 under-20s team of the year, and named Souths' under-20s player of the year.<\/p>\n "Reyno [Adam Reynolds], he hasn't changed since I played 20s with him. He's still a prankster, still a pest. He hides my water bottles, my belongings, he's just a bloody pest.<\/p>\n "You need those kinds of guys in the team. It's good that he's still here, and I can't wait to play alongside him."<\/p>\n Mansour has been named among an extended bench for the Bunnies' trip to Mudgee, where they'll take on the Dragons in the Charity Shield.<\/p>\n The annual curtain-raiser has been one-way traffic in recent years, with Souths winning the least eight match-ups.<\/p>\n 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> clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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