{"id":89033,"date":"2021-06-22T07:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89033"},"modified":"2021-06-22T07:57:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:57:18","slug":"former-nrl-star-makes-sudden-retirement-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89033","title":{"rendered":"Former NRL star makes sudden retirement call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most respected players of rugby league&#x27;s modern era, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/manly-grant-veteran-nrl-forward-a-release\/677a794a-27fe-4ae1-abf9-977a6bcd185a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"former Country Origin forward Joel Thompson\">former Country Origin forward Joel Thompson<\/a>, is set to retire despite having a year left on his contract.<\/p>\n<p>A talented back-rower who played over 200 games for the Raiders, Dragons and Manly, Thompson moved to England this season on a two-year deal with St Helens.<\/p>\n<p>But the 32-year-old has told the Saints that his body is starting to let him down and he has personal matters back home to attend to at the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"bb0c52b0-d747-40e1-969d-c68232510ffd\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/bb0c52b0-d747-40e1-969d-c68232510ffd\" alt=\"Joel Thompson will be calling time on his career. \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Born in the bush in Ivanhoe, Thompson became an Australian Schoolboys representative in 2006 before joining the Raiders, making his top grade debut to years later.<\/p>\n<p>From tough and humble beginnings, he became a popular figure at all three NRL clubs for which he played and did a lot of charity work behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>A proud Aboriginal man, he played for the Indigenous All Stars seven times and was unlucky not to play State of Origin football for NSW.<\/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\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>One of the most respected players of rugby league&#x27;s modern era, former Country Origin forward Joel Thompson, is set to retire despite having a year <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89033\" title=\"Former NRL star makes sudden retirement call\">[&#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\/89033"}],"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=89033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89035,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89033\/revisions\/89035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}