Forever young forward Willie Mason is negotiating to sign a new one-year deal with the Sea Eagles that will see him play in the NRL when he is 36.

The Sunday Telegraph has learned the former Kangaroo could be reunited with Bulldogs premiership winning front row partner Nate Myles after a barnstorming season start has seen him run more meters than every Manly forward except one.

Mason, already the oldest starting forward in the NRL, is expected to be offered a new Sea Eagles deal should the club fail in its bid to stop Daly Cherry Evans from taking up a $4 million deal with the Gold Coast Titans.

Manly have less than two weeks to convince the star No.7 — to sign a revised deal to stay a Sea Eagle with the round 13 “backflip’’ deadline now just 12 days away.

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