A generation of NRL players are close to the end, so who will be the final player standing from the noughties?
On Tuesday, Roosters warhorse Jared Waerea-Hargreaves announced that 2024 will be his final season in the NRL, drawing a long and storied career to a close and beginning a closing of the door on a whole era of the sport.
Waerea-Hargreaves debuted for Manly back in 2009 and is one of just a handful of NRL players who debuted in the first decade of the 2000s still in the league.
As the oldest player in the NRL in 2024, this season was always looking to be Waerea-Hargreaves's swansong and it seems likely the race to be the last man standing from the 00s is between three players.
Canberra's ageless wonder Jordan Rapana, who debuted in 2008 before taking six years away from the sport due to a...