Jason Ryles named on Storm hit list to replace Bellamy

Parramatta Eels head coach Jason Ryles has been placed on the hit list of the Melbourne Storm who look to replace Craig Bellamy. With talk of Bellamy set to coach is last year in Melbourne in 2026, he will move to role with the Storm remotely or coach the Gold Coast Titans.

Ryles was an assistant in Melbourne before coming to Parramatta. Issues with this link are, firstly he and his family live in Wollongong. They have the whole time he has been coaching. Apparently when he got the job the celebration was he would be home more often being back in Sydney. So would he move to be with Melbourne again full-time? Maybe. Some might say why not go there when assistant but he may not have wanted to move them there if not guarentees of getting HC job at Storm. Secondly, when Ryles was still at Storm, he would have known Bellamy would call it at any point, he could have waited. It was not like we got Ryles out of Melbourne, he wanted the Eels job badly. If he wanted it badly, with Bellamy retiring looming, surely he would have stayed put knowing he would be the front-runner had Bellamy stepped aside.

Of course, media have to bring us into all this. Bellamy moving to Queensland has allowed Titans to catch a lucky break. I wonder if the "He hasn't won a comp withouth Smith" has affected Bellamy to the point he wants to prove it is him and get Titans up and going into a powerhouse. 

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2025-melbourne-storm-hitlist-to-replace-craig-bellamy-bellamy-considering-titans-switch-billy-slater-jason-ryles-matt-king-news-videos-highlights/news-story/6cb2b8e36aa522f37e3c0532dd1d68ba

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    • I don't think so either, definately won't. I think he is a man of high standards and won't be a hypocrite. 
      Only blight on his resume is when he went to Dragons HQ when Roosters said not to and said he was there to offer them advice. That was dodgy but not man breaking.

      He has done so much in a short span of time I doubt highly he is considering it.

      I even said, his management said he would crawl through glass for the Eels job. Why make that claim to leave after 2 years.

      • I think the incentive to take the eels to their first premiership in 40 years is a big motivator. Taking over at the Storm, things aren't going to get any better but they could get a lot worse.

  • Did Hooper get his job back ? as a no name content creater....this is such a fucking hacket job

  • Wouldn't worry about it. Seems like his enjoying the challenge of rebuilding 

    • Did it sound like i am worrying about it?

  • More Fox speculation, anyone would think this rubbish was written by the recently departed 'journalist' James Hooper.

    • Shhhhhh you will blow his cover. However, it sounds like someone who was drunk wrote it. It is Hooper!!!!

  • Ryles is not the sort of person to dump what he has only just begun. He won't leave Parra until he has achieved what he wanted.

    This is just journalists looking for an off season hit, and of course Parra fans always take the bait. I don't buy into any of it.

  • I hope Isaac Moses isn't JR's manager?

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