The future is bright for off-contract rookie Sam Walker, and two of the game's greats think the Roosters should already be shaping to build their long-term plans around him. "Right now? Five years," Brad Fittler told Wide World of Sports' Freddy and The Eighth when asked what sort of contract extension the Roosters should offer Walker. "Apart from injury, he just is going to be there. You can just tell. Shies away from nothing." In 2019, the Roosters got under the guard of the Broncos and trumped interest from Rugby Australia to lure the teenager down to Bondi, with a contract that expires at the end of this season. But both Fittler and Andrew Johns give other clubs very little chance of swooping in to poach Walker now. "He's in a great system, well-coached club, club that looks after him, great players around him, great forward pack - just let him stay there," Johns said. "He'll make his money without a doubt in the next couple of years, but initially without taking the piss demanding 900k or a million dollars."
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