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As Queensland and Australias greatest generation begins to contemplate walking off into the sunset, Cooper Cronk insists hell be around for years to come.Maroons coach Kevin Walters and his Australian counterpart Mal Meninga face an unprecedented changing of the guard over the next two years with Johnathan Thurston, Cameron Smith and Greg Inglis weighing up retirement plans.Their departures will leave a massive hole in both their state and national sides however its a situation eased by the co-Dally M winners declaration he wasnt contemplating hanging up the boots anytime soon.I suppose youre referring to the grey hairs on my head, Cronk said as he entered Australian camp ahead of the Four Nations.Time is of the essence and Im coming closer towards the end. But Ill be honest with you, Ive never really considered representative retirement and stepping away.When you start thinking those things its not too far away. Im not too worried about my future.The 32-year-old is contracted to the Storm until the 2018 but has put on expiry date on his playing days.Next year shapes as Johnathan Thurstons last year of representative football before his 2018 swansong season in which he hopes to devote all of his efforts to North Queensland.Queensland and Australian skipper Smith is expected to retire in 2018, though hasnt ruled out playing on until 2019.While Inglis has set to retirement date but has previously stated a desire to stand down from rep football to concentrate on club duties.Thurston has a hectic 14 months ahead starting with the Four Nations in England, the Auckland Nines in early February, the NRL, his farewell Origin campaign and next years World Cup in Australia.The 33-year-old said it was getting harder to manage his body but was determined to play as much football as possible in the time he had left.Especially at the start of the year you need to put in the hours and the workload to get the body right to handle the rigours of rugby league, he said.The Nines, the first weekend of February, itll be about getting my body right to handle that kind of workload. 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MANCHESTER, England -- It has been another fraught, headline-grabbing spell away with Englands national team for Wayne Rooney.Once again, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho must pick up the pieces.Rooney is back under Uniteds control after having been forced to apologize for some late-night revelry while on England duty, when he was pictured -- in his England training gear -- looking bleary-eyed at a wedding reception at the team hotel on Saturday.Rooney was criticized by the English Football Associations chief executive, Martin Glenn, for not setting the right tone as England captain, and the strikers conduct has sparked a fresh wave of negative publicity toward a player who has shown erratic behavior on and off the field earlier in his career.Mourinho said Rooney has been hurt by the negativity toward him.Even if you have or if you build a kind of wall around you to try to feel protected from what people write about you or think about you, the comments people make about you, the wall has always points of fragility, Mourinho said. It has always some little holes.And we are not still, we are flesh and blood. So I think it has an effect.Mourinho must be starting to dread Rooney going away with the national team. Two months ago, the United manager said Rooney came back from England duty a different person than when he left after fierce media criticism that he received after his performance in a World Cup qualifying match against Slovakia.Honestly, I think there was a Wayne before the Slovakia-England and a Wayne after Slovakia-England, Mourinho said at the time.Now, Mourinho faces another fight to get Rooney mentally right,, at a time when the striker had got his place back in both Uniteds and Englands team after a spell of poor form.ddddddddddddSometimes (players) come back stronger than when they left us because something positive happens there -- good performances, good results, Mourinho said. Other times, injuries, sometimes big injuries. Other times frustrations because they didnt play, because the result was bad.In this case we know what didnt go well, but the national team is a different chapter and a chapter that is closed now until March.Mourinho suggested that the England management take better care of Rooney next time he is away with the national team. There were reports in the British media that Mourinho felt let down by the FA for allowing Rooney to stay up late and drink alcohol.I learned since I was a kid, if someone lends me something, I have to take care even better than if it was mine, Mourinho said. You know, your friend lent you a pencil, you have to take care of the pencil better than if it was your pencil.So I think when one day if I become a national-team manager, I will try -- try, I am not saying that I will be successful on that -- ... to build something to protect what is not yours.Mourinho also said he feels Rooney has been unfairly singled out for criticism.If you go one by one to see where these 23 (England) players were, the Portuguese coach added, some of them were in worse places than the hotel bar.Rooneys first game back for United is against Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday. ' ' '