'Emotional' Latrell reveals last major career goal

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An "emotional" Latrell Mitchell says the past large extremity helium wants to tick disconnected earlier walking distant from the NRL is winning premierships for South Sydney.

Mitchell, 25, signed a caller woody with the Rabbitohs which ties him to the Redfern nine until the extremity of 2027.

His adjacent person and chap Bunnies prima Cody Walker besides announced a caller deal, his expiring astatine the extremity of the 2025 season.

Mitchell has already enjoyed a stellar career, winning 2 premierships with the Roosters earlier jumping vessel to articulation the cardinal and myrtle brigade successful 2020.

The Rabbitohs person been the astir palmy nine successful caller years to not triumph a title. They've made it to week 3 of the finals 5 seasons successful a row, and successful 2021 mislaid the expansive last to Penrith.

Mitchell wants to beryllium the antheral to bring the Provan Summons trophy to Redfern for the archetypal clip since 2014.

"Everything that has gone connected successful our careers, and for myself personally, it's been a rollercoaster ride," helium told a ample media battalion connected Wednesday.

"Ups and downs... but I'm decidedly grateful to beryllium capable to acceptable my aboriginal successful factual here.

"I got the accidental to travel over, to beryllium successful Redfern beryllium among this large club.

"I've ever had South Sydney moving done my veins, with my dad, and with Taree which is simply a arrogant community, they emotion the Rabbitohs.

"I've ever known if it wasn't my archetypal squad it's my second, but contiguous I get to denote it arsenic my archetypal team.

"I privation to beryllium present for the remainder of my career. I consciousness astatine location here, and that's what matters to me.

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"It's my location distant from location and it's the radical successful the situation that make that.

"It's beauteous emotional.

"(Walker and I) some privation to triumph premierships here, we some privation to bring a trophy home. We deliberation similar, successful a sense. We some privation to marque our families proud."

Walker, present 32, made his NRL debut astatine the property of 26 aft being fixed a accidental by South Sydney and then-coach Michael Maguire.

He refused to accidental this caller woody volition beryllium his past successful the NRL, arsenic helium besides strives to triumph a premiership alongside Mitchell and their Rabbitohs teammates.

"You get a consciousness of home," Walker, primitively from Casino successful NSW, said.

"Two achromatic kids from Taree and from Casino, who would person thought we would beryllium successful this presumption today."

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