CAM’S MUNSTER CALL TO MAKE

IMMORTAL Andrew Johns has told Cameron Munster he must decide what he values before putting pen to paper on his next deal.

Munster has been offered a contract extension to stay at the Storm past next season but it represents a $400,000 pay cut on his 2023 salary.

The 27-year-old is set to earn $1.2 million in Melbourne next year, but if he wants to stay on anything near that wicket he’ll need to join Wayne Bennett at the Dolphins.

The Dolphins have reportedly offered Munster $1 million per season to join the club which enters the NRL next year.

“He’s got to decide what he wants to do – whether he wants to have more money and be at a club starting off, which without a doubt will struggle, or does he want to compete in semi-finals and a chance of winning premierships?” Johns said on Immortal Behaviour.

“There are so many players who have chosen the money … the big one for me was when I watched Kevin Proctor, when he went from the Storm to Gold Coast, never played semi-finals and there were times when he looked so frustrated. ted.

“Also, in Melbourne he’s anonymous. In Queensland and he is not.”

Johns is considered by y many as the greatest rugby league player of all time and he finished his NRL career as a one-club player, despite massive offfers from rivals.

He won two premierships ships with the Knights and said the only time he considered leaving the club was when the Broncos offered him a $200,000 pay rise in 2000. He could have doubled his salary by switching codes co and playing rugby r union.

“I got offered a lot more to go to other clubs. I wasn’t driven by money, and a I mean how much mu do you need?” Johns John said.

“If you’re earning $800,000 a year, it’s huge money.

“But over three of four years … it adds up. You lose some happiness, you’ll lose some (money) in tax.

“It’s a big decision for him. He will be happy at the Dolphins, but not a chance of winning a premiership.

“There were times when we struggled at Newcastle – one year we lost 13 in a row – and it was a chore going to training, because you knew you weren’t going to win.

“Turning up to training knowing you’re a chance of winning a premiership, or knowing you’re going to win, pushing yourself … it has an effect.”