{"id":454163,"date":"2026-02-02T19:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454163\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:19:34","slug":"cameron-munsters-retirement-admission-melbourne-storm-future-contract-details-perth-bears-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454163\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Munster’s retirement admission, Melbourne Storm future, contract details, Perth Bears rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cameron Munster<\/a> has admitted he may only have “two or three more years” left in his NRL career, despite still being one of the game’s elite players.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old was bestowed the Queensland captaincy in last year’s State of Origin series and also led the Storm into a second-straight grand final appearance.<\/p>\n

Munster remains contracted in Melbourne<\/a> until the end of 2027 and despite continued links with the Perth Bears<\/a>, the five-eighth appears to be staying put.<\/p>\n

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Cameron Munster.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

What happens after Munster’s current deal expires is a little less clear, and speaking on Nine’s Today he admitted there’s a chance he won’t even continue playing after that.<\/p>\n

“I’m 32 this year,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully two or three more years (left in my body). I don’t wanna be playing until 36 and getting wheeled out. You may as well leave when you can and retire on your own terms.<\/p>\n

“A lot of athletes have had the chance of not being able to do that because of injuries. I want to be able to retire on my own terms – two or three years is probably realistic.”<\/p>\n

Munster has already started putting things in place for his post-playing career, with confirmation last week he would be co-owner of a new Caxton Street pub.<\/p>\n

In the short term, Munster will be hoping to steer the Storm into another NRL decider and make it third time lucky on the big stage.<\/p>\n

The club has lost some key players for the 2026 campaign but Munster remains confident the Storm have what it takes to go all the way.<\/p>\n

“Obviously last year was pretty disappointing, but I’m sure a lot of the NRL teams would have loved to have been in back-to-back grand finals,” he said of losing the grand final to the Broncos.<\/p>\n

“It’s a bit of a sour taste in the mouth losing both of them, but being in the grand final is something special and hopefully we can do something special again this year.<\/p>\n

“It’s obviously mentally draining at times, you do so much work in the pre-season to be able to get to that moment … but unfortunately, we’ve fallen short.<\/p>\n

“Losing Paps [Ryan Papenhuyzen] and Nelson [Asofa-Solomona] and then it’s unfortunate with Eli’s [Katoa] condition, we’ve lost a little bit of experience there.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Papenhuyzen.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“These young boys that are coming through has been pretty special \u2026 there’s some hungry blokes in our squad pushing for spots.<\/p>\n

“I think the future is bright in Melbourne.”<\/p>\n

Papenhuyzen and Asofa-Solomona have both left the NRL for the upcoming season, while Katoa is set to be sidelined for all of 2026 due to a head injury<\/a> suffered while playing for Tonga during the Pacific Championships. <\/p>\n

Munster and his Storm teammates will kick off their season against the Parramatta Eels on Thursday, March 5 at AAMI Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Munster has admitted he may only have “two or three more years” left in his NRL career,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-454163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454163","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=454163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}