Wests Tigers legend Ben Elias wants Benji Marshall to be shown the door now Tigers club legend Ben Elias says he would get rid of Benji Marshall immediately. CLUB legend Ben Elias has called for departing star Benji Marshall to be punted by Wests Tigers immediately. The Daily Telegraph can reveal Elias wants the Kiwi superstar to be released by the club's board today. He would not play again for Wests Tigers. Marshall wants to finish this season at Concord before securing a deal with either the NSW Waratahs or Auckland Blues in Super Rugby. But Elias said Marshall should be moved on immediately so that Wests Tigers could start to blood some young guns. "I have been Benji's biggest fan, privately and publicly," Elias said. However, I think the time has come for him to leave the Wests Tigers, effective immediately. If he doesn't want to stay at the club for the remaining two years of his contract, and he wants to go and play rugby union, then we should let him go now. We need to build for the future and Benji doesn't want to be part of that. I can't see how he could give his heart and soul to the club when he wants to play rugby union next season. Wests Tigers were saying very little yesterday. The club continues to ponder whether to issue Marshall his release. It is likely he will be given a conditional release stating he cannot sign with another NRL club. Canterbury and St George Illawarra have been touted on social media as being possible suitors. Marshall has often stated he would never play against Wests Tigers. Elias said he expected Marshall, despite being 28 years old, to one day return to rugby league. "I expect him to come back to rugby league, like what happened with Lote Tuqiri, Mat Rogers, Wendell Sailor and Sonny Bill Williams," Elias said. They all come back eventually. The Auckland Blues will reportedly fly coach Sir John Kirwan and chief executive Andy Dalton to Sydney on Sunday to talk again to the Marshall camp. But it appears he'll have to take a pay cut from the upgraded Tigers offer, which would have made him one of rugby league's highest-paid players. "If he chose to go to the Waratahs, it would be because he doesn't want to move or because of the opportunities in Sydney through television and goodness knows what else," Marshall's manager Martin Tauber told New Zealand's Radio Sport yesterday. The prospect of playing for the All Blacks and for a sevens gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games also held considerable appeal, Tauber said. He couldn't achieve either by signing with the Waratahs. Marshall was offered a $2.1 million contract by the Tigers, including $700,000 next year and $800,000 in 2015.Under the New Zealand Rugby Union, he would earn no more than $NZ240,000 ($208,100) playing a full season of Super Rugby and domestic ITM Cup rugby.