{"id":346442,"date":"2025-12-14T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346442\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:50:09","slug":"not-too-sure-tyson-frizell-weighing-up-future-ahead-of-2026-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346442\/","title":{"rendered":"“Not too sure”: Tyson Frizell weighing up future ahead of 2026 – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four months after agreeing to a one-year contract extension with the Newcastle Knights<\/a>, veteran forward Tyson Frizell<\/a> is reportedly weighing up his future as he looks beyond the 2026 NRL<\/a> season.<\/p>\n

Preparing to enter his 16th season in the NRL<\/a>, Frizell is slowly coming to the backend of his career and is set to reach the 300-match milestone next season if he remains fit and healthy.<\/p>\n

Retiring from representative football in 2024 after 14 appearances for Australia<\/a> and a further 16 matches for the NSW Blues<\/a>, there have been whispers that next season may mark his last before he decides to hang up the boots on his playing career.<\/p>\n

Despite this, the 34-year-old has yet to come to a decision and is currently weighing up his future not only at the Knights but also in the competition.<\/p>\n

“I’m not too sure yet. We’ll have to see how we get through,” Frizell said, via The Newcastle Herald.<\/p>\n

“If it is, well so be it. I’m still looking to play on for as long as I can, and … I’m enjoying my footy and love coming to work every day. I don’t really see it as work, but you say it is. But we’ll see how we go.<\/p>\n

“I’ll get through the year and hopefully towards the back end, maybe the middle of the year, make a decision on what happens.”<\/p>\n

An established\u00a0NRL<\/a> forward, he admits that he is feeling good and is raring to go ahead of the start of the 2026 NRL<\/a> season in which the Knights will look to move off the bottom of the ladder under new coach Justin Holbrook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’m feeling good. Same as always, you enjoy this time of the year,” he added.<\/p>\n

“It is definitely tough, but it’s what your season is built on. You get in your hard work, and hopefully that can set you up for the year.<\/p>\n

“At the back end of my career, there’s a lot of young kids coming through keeping me on my toes.<\/p>\n

“But like I said, I love my footy and I love being a part of it. The day I stop enjoying it, is the day I give it up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four months after agreeing to a one-year contract extension with the Newcastle Knights, veteran forward Tyson Frizell is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-346442","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\/346442","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=346442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}