{"id":671632,"date":"2026-05-15T01:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/671632\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:59:10","slug":"latrell-mitchell-reveals-nrl-club-that-told-him-hell-never-play-nrl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/671632\/","title":{"rendered":"Latrell Mitchell reveals NRL club that told him “he’ll never play NRL”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Latrell Mitchell<\/a> has cemented himself as one of the most damaging attacking threats in NRL<\/a> history.<\/p>\n

With his incredible strength, elite agility, and playmaking class, he has become a star in the competition throughout his stints at the Sydney Roosters<\/a> and the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, it hasn’t always been viewed this way, with Mitchell revealing on the Hello Sport Podcast via a snippet on their social media that two NRL<\/a> clubs brushed him as a junior, with one of those telling him he won’t play in the NRL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Well, Knights definitely number one,” Mitchell said with a laugh when asked which clubs knocked him back as a junior.<\/p>\n

“Especially only being an hour up the road, you know what I mean. They’ve done it to a few lads, Payne Haas<\/a>, Hudson Young<\/a>, there’s a few, but anyways, we won’t go there.”<\/p>\n

Mitchell was raised in Taree, within travelling distance of Newcastle on the NSW Mid North Coast.<\/p>\n

He represented the Taree Red Rovers in his junior days before his stint in Group 3 Rugby League<\/a> for Taree City in under-18s.<\/p>\n

“Them and I went and trialed for the Doggies, and they said I’d never play rugby league, or NRL<\/a>,” Mitchell added.<\/p>\n

“Not to me, but I know they said it in an email to somebody, so we won’t go there.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mitchell moved to the Sydney Roosters<\/a> to compete in their SG Ball side and progressed through the tri-colours junior pathway system.<\/p>\n

He made his NRL<\/a> debut in 2016 as an 18-year-old, playing 24 games, scoring 14 tries and 80 points to finish as the Roosters’ top try and point-scorer for the season.<\/p>\n

It will no-doubt be a bitter blow for Bulldogs fans to hear, given Mitchell went on to represent his country and state many times, and won two premierships.<\/p>\n

The superstar outside back is well in the mix for the NSW Blues<\/a> left centre position ahead of the State of Origin<\/a> series this year.<\/p>\n

Blues<\/a> coach Laurie Daley<\/a> is set to name Monday morning ahead of the blockbuster clash in Sydney on May 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latrell Mitchell has cemented himself as one of the most damaging attacking threats in NRL history. With his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-671632","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\/671632","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=671632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}