Inside Latrell Mitchells South Sydney Rabbitohs career-defining meeting [Video]

Membership of Latrell Mitchell’s inner circle is confined to a select few. It is a place where trust is earned, and when those who Mitchell trusts talk, he tends to respectfully listen.

Two of those people are his advisor Matt Rose and his agent Wok Wright, who on Monday sat down with the under-siege Mitchell, fearing for their friend’s state of mind and wondering whether it was all getting too much for him.

They feared that Mitchell, who had just finished filming a Fox Sports television shoot to promote the NRL’s upcoming Indigenous Round, may have lost the love for the game. If so, they wanted him to know it was OK.

The pair told Mitchell that if he didn’t want to play any more, it was time to quit. That if he was playing only because …