{"id":154313,"date":"2025-09-19T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154313\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:16:06","slug":"daine-laurie-weighs-nrl-future-ahead-of-november-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154313\/","title":{"rendered":"Daine Laurie weighs NRL future ahead of November 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-end=\"109\" data-start=\"53\">With November 1 fast approaching, Daine Laurie admits he has no clarity over where he\u2019ll be playing next season, but he\u2019s adamant his best NRL football is still ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"638\" data-start=\"370\">The off-contract Penrith fullback has been listed among the reserves for Sunday\u2019s semi-final against Canterbury and, while Dylan Edwards remains the club\u2019s first-choice No.1, Laurie has filled the role with competence across his 23 appearances in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Day by day\u2019 as market opens<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"899\" data-start=\"676\">Speaking to AAP, the 26-year-old conceded he\u2019s unsure what comes next. \u201cI don\u2019t have a clue (what my future holds) &#8230; I\u2019m just going to take it day by day and hopefully something turns up in the background,\u201d Laurie said.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"899\" data-start=\"676\">MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/james-graham-nrl-finals-cronulla-sharks-premiership-raiders\/861fa64cabb3f63ec20bc5a5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Graham names NRL&#8217;s forgotten premiership contender<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1155\" data-start=\"901\">Laurie believes his second stint at the Panthers has left him a more polished player than when he departed for Wests Tigers in 2020. \u201cI reckon I\u2019ve matured as a person and I reckon my game has definitely gotten better since I left the Tigers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1417\" data-start=\"1157\">A key factor has been the chance to shadow Edwards. \u201cI\u2019ve obviously learned heaps off Dyl. He\u2019s a champion fullback and I\u2019ve looked up to him since I came down here as a 16-year-old. He\u2019s the one I\u2019ve tried to model my game off and he\u2019s been a great mentor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1656\" data-start=\"1419\">With 75 NRL games to his name, Laurie insists he wants to reach the century mark before even considering a move overseas. \u201cI think I\u2019m too young to go over there, I want to get to the 100-game mark and then maybe suss it out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1823\" data-start=\"1658\">For now, his management is exploring options, but Laurie is clear he won\u2019t rush. \u201cIf something pops up that\u2019s the right thing for me and my missus, I\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With November 1 fast approaching, Daine Laurie admits he has no clarity over where he\u2019ll be playing next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-154313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}