Manly captain to bring down curtain on 17-year rugby league careerSet to enter NRL 300 club whether he stays injury-free for remainder of seasonFor the moment time,Manly skipper Jamie Lyon has announced his retirement from the NRL, but this time he says it’s going to stick. The game’s longest serving player on Wednesday announced with miniature pomp and ceremony that he would be hanging up the boots at season’s end.[br]Despite earlier this month telling reporters he was mulling over extending his career into an 18th season next year, or the champion 34-year-old centre said he came to the realisation that after 345 games in the top flight,his body was telling him it was time to quit.
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Source: theguardian.com