Pearce 'considering' future NRL coaching role

Departing Knight Mitchell Pearce says returning to Australia to instrumentality connected a coaching relation is thing he's considering.

Pearce earlier this week stunned the rugby league satellite by taking up an connection with French nine Catalans successful the Super League aft 15 years successful the NRL.

Joining the nine connected a two-year deal, there's each accidental the 32-year-old whitethorn present person played his last crippled successful the NRL.

Asked astir 1 time returning to Australia successful a coaching capacity, Pearce said it's thing he's "passionate about".

"It's decidedly thing you commencement to consider," Pearce told 2GB's Wide World of Sports radio.

Mitchell Pearce successful enactment for the Knights (Getty)

"I decidedly deliberation I could connection thing successful and astir halves coaching oregon adjunct coaching roles.

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"That's decidedly thing I'd beryllium passionate about, nary doubt.

"Going implicit to France, portion of the entreaty is going implicit determination and winning the contention ... different portion of it besides is the off-field worldly — caller civilization and caller opportunities to unfastened up to.

"I mightiness spell implicit determination and find immoderate caller passions I didn't cognize I had successful me.

"Footy volition ever beryllium passion. Coaching and each of that stuff, I'm ne'er going to suffer my emotion for rugby league."

Pearce, who made his debut successful 2007, leaves the NRL having played 309 games betwixt the Roosters and Knights.

He won a premiership with the Roosters successful 2013 and represented the NSW Blues connected 19 occasions.

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"At the extremity of the day, it was my determination ... I weighed up each options," helium said.

"It was a truly pugnacious determination but I needed to spell determination that I was going to beryllium mentally and physically 100 per cent and France was the champion enactment for me.

"I'm not idiosyncratic who gives up and walks away, it's not successful my nature.

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"There was a batch of thought and it was astir what the champion was the nine and me. That's wherefore the nine was truly knowing erstwhile we sat down, we were each connected the aforesaid page."

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