Gold Coast Titans five-eighth Kieran Foran has announced 2025 will be his last year in professional rugby league. With 309 matches under his belt, Foran is set to finish with close to 315 NRL games to his name when he plays his final match for Gold Coast in September. Foran's retirement comes as questions swirl about the future of club coach Des Hasler, with the Titans sitting last and looking unlikely to make the finals. ABC Sport is live blogging every round of the AFLNRL A premiership winner at Manly in 2011, Foran also played 31 Tests for New Zealand and is the last player in the NRL to have debuted during the 2000s decade. But beyond all that, Foran will finish as one of the toughest halves to play the game in the NRL era after a career that experienced more highs and lows than most. The Kiwi, who turns 35 on Sunday, debuted under Hasler at Manly in 2009 as a hard-running five-eighth, regularly putting his body through the wringer when taking the line on or putting on hits in defence. He won a premiership as a 21-year-old, partnering with Daly Cherry-Evans as one of the youngest combinations in the game's history to take a team to the title. But when the five-eighth was lured to Parramatta in 2016 on a mega four-year deal, the playmaker's path changed significantly. He experienced highly publicised personal issues and has since revealed the mental demons he fought through that period. Foran ended up leaving the Eels for the Warriors after one season, but admitted then it was the toll he put on his body that began to catch up with him. He played just 57 games across four seasons at the Warriors and then Canterbury, at one stage prompting fears of a medical retirement due to a shoulder injury. Foran persisted though and earned a lifeline under Hasler at Manly in 2021 before helping to take them back to the preliminary final in his first season back at Brookvale. The five-eighth was eventually squeezed out at the end of 2022, but had done enough to extend his career on the Gold Coast. It was there Hasler ultimately joined him in 2024, after making a shock return to coaching at the Titans. Foran reached the 300-game milestone last year, perhaps the most unlikely member of the 55-man group given how his career looked six years ago.