Parramatta Eels forward Ryan Matterson had a deal in place with the Gold Coast Titans for a move there, however the deal has now reportedly fallen through. Details as to why the deal fell through are not available. It means the 189 NRL game veteran will remain at Parramatta for 2026 on a salary reportedly worth $700k.
The fact a team was interested shocked me but it is disappointing as we know Matterson will not feature in 2026, even if he did it would be in a very minimal role as Ryles moves towards the likes of Moretti, Tuivaiti, Guymer and Talagi as future middles.
https://www.zerotackle.com/out-of-favour-eels-forwards-move-to-queensland-club-falls-through-228476/
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I don't know about you but my brain is singular and not plural, yes I do have two lips and I am impressed you noticed.
I don't think everything you said in that last post is actually true, as against the very partial elements that were.
Now don't tell me you cannot understand anything I just said. You have shown repeatedly you speak "goobably gook" fluently.
He was a bench player because of his motor. Coming off the bench he could play his 60 minutes in one stint, with only the half time break giving him a rest. The starters got a much longer break. Matterson was second best in our team for PCM per game. He basically picked up RCG's workload when he went off, in attack and defence. Matterson's club form was elite in 2022 which is why he was picked in Origin. He was still excellent in 2023. It was only last year he began to decline. This year his form fell off a cliff.
Signs of panic are always an observation, landing on Omaha Beach would have had "much" "very much"signs of panic, they still did a job getting the beach just the same.....so do we need to "treat"the result or the attempt?
Do we understand what they were up against, or do we just say, not good enough without understanding the magnitude of the challenge. i.e. if we were religious we could have prayed a lot. Superstitious and we could have bought some charms or lucky emblets. Emotional we could stamp our feet and cry!
Instead we got MON with WIZ as a mentor and a series of Morons and Idiots running the show.....sounds like we are/were somewhere between a rock and a hard place.!!
Exactly , the same fuckwits that have popped up time and time again for all the wrong reasons with different aspects of agreements they've engineered. .
If the club wants Matto off the books have him retire and hire him as an assistant coach of one of the junior sides or as a deleopment officer spreading his contract over a two year period saving him some tax dough.
This is where the top clubs find away to create cap room , they haven't wanted Matto for over a year surely they've explored all avenues to get him off the cap.
There's no way he plays in an Eels jumper again hurry up and make it work .
We cannot force him to retire, if he retires he forfeit's his salary for 2026. Unless he medically retires which can be hard to prove if nothing there.
Do you want him as an assistant? Worth $700k? Either way if you want him gone he will be getting the money he is entitled to, that is fair. Not his fault we caved in and offered him this deal.
I don't think you understand LB the NRL allows players in the twilight of their career to retire early and take up there last years contract as a club employee assistant coach ect and it's off the cap.
He can run the gym; and no doubt would love being the blue shirt.
True but also at the same time you have to convince him to agree to it. All well and good saying "Get him to retire" when he has to agree to it too. We cannot force any player to retire. So therefore he has to agree to it in some capacity. He might feel he has up to 2-3 years of playing left and after 2026 his owed salary drops, so if he is in a role with the club he wont be getting his $700k after that, so he would need to think what he wants to do.
Hey who knows maybe he does do that but unlike Shaun Lane who hinted at doing what he is doing now at the club, Matto we are not sure what he wants to do or even he wants to be involved with the club or NRL post playing.
I didn't know that Bup, sounds like a good idea if he does do that given his circumstances.
What I thought you meant was that it amortises his income over a greater period thereby bringing his tax down and spread the cap effect over 2 to 3 years.
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