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Bulldogs supporters person a crushed to rejoice aft prized playmaker Matt Burton made it wide that his preferred nine for the agelong word was Canterbury.

Burton's unthinkable emergence to State of Origin and Kangaroos honours has acceptable him up for a sizeable upgrade connected his $500,000-a-year contract, with a four-year woody successful the works.

When speaking to 9News earlier flying retired with Australia for the World Cup, Burton said helium "100 per cent" wanted to stay astatine the Bulldogs for the agelong run.

"There's evidently a batch of large juniors coming done and everything that's happened this twelvemonth with the nine and for adjacent twelvemonth ... it's looking up," Burton added.

Trent Barrett's mid-season axing and Burton's phenomenal Bulldogs form, which exceeded his wage packet, had the five-eighth acceptable to trial the marketplace travel November 1.

But the securing of Cameron Ciraldo arsenic coach, who Burton played nether astatine the Panthers, the looming arrivals of Viliame Kikau and Reed Mahoney, and the advancement made nether interim coach Mick Potter, look to person convinced the 22-year-old to stay successful bluish and white.

Burton is simply a subordinate of the 24-man Kangaroos squad acceptable to alert to England for the World Cup, which helium struggles to believe.

"Even driving present this morning, and erstwhile I got the telephone call, I was conscionable reasoning successful my head," Burton said.

"I couldn't truly judge it, I couldn't enactment it into words."

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