Hudson Young discusses his playing future after receiving permission to negotiate with the PNG Chiefs while recovering from injury.
After hobbling down the blue carpet that led to the Brad Fittler Medal presentation on Monday night, Hudson Young stopped to address a media scrum that had assembled to quiz him about his playing future.
Canberra had granted Young, who was still wearing a moon boot after rupturing his Achilles tendon in July, early permission to negotiate with the PNG Chiefs. The plan was for Young, once he had sufficiently recovered to fly to Port Moresby, to decide whether to join the NRL's 19th team or accept the three-year, $3.3 million contract with the Raiders.
"It's one of those things, I just want to see [PNG] for myself first," Young said at the time.
"There's been a lot of media around it and certain players going over there and saying certain things, so I just want to go over there and make the decision myself on what I feel."