"So Ryles sat down with Brown and laid it out. You can go, but if you choose to stay I can’t guarantee you will play in the halves."
Summary:
The Eels began planning for the future, and Dylan Brown was no longer part of those long-term plans. Coach Jason Ryles had an open and honest discussion with Brown, similar to one he had with Clint Gutherson in the off-season. Gutherson chose to leave and joined St George Illawarra. In contrast, Brown accepted the decision, expressed willingness to play wherever needed, and preferred to finish the season with Parramatta before joining Newcastle.
Opinion:
What a mess!
The second Dylan signed elsewhere his season at the Eels was effectively over. Now it's been confirmed that it is truly over as far as his Coach is concerned. Yet he still takes up salary cap space and we still have the season to finish.
I concede that the offer he got from Newcastle was insane and he had no choice but to take it, however the situation highlights the farce that is the current player transfer market. Basically if you have a player sign elsewhere 12 months out then it's over there and then. All the talk at the time about him being committed to the season and an important piece of our plans was nonsense. We're a team running 15th and we're benching one of our Marquee players. It's irrelevant if that is the right thing to do, what it illustrates is the mess that our R&R is.
Apologies for the rant but I'm frustrated with the continual bumbling of our roster. This is our 3rd season straight without finals.
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Well yeah, we shouldn't have been in the situation where Newcastle had the chance to offer him $1.4 mil.
Im glad LB
what has Dylan done for us Nothing
Go Now he can
let the door hit you on your way out
Over rated Now over payed
💯 that's what the good clubs do don't get walked over by player managers.
Basically PAs have used and abused the club for 2 long hopefully that's all over now but at what cost are these PAs now that there leverage has been taken just go shopping elsewhere and we miss out on top tier talent.
Double edged sword I feel being 15th on the ladder doesn't help us.
While I agree with what you've said, I assumed we were talking about here and now. If we had a time machine, we could go back and change many things.
What could we have done differently this year when the Knights came knocking? Maybe Coryn's answer above is correct.
I think he is prob trying to save himself from injury before being 13 mill buck man
It's a league wide problem Mutts hence why they need a legit transfer window.
I don't blame anyone over this we aren't in a position to attract the top tier talent and we weren't correctly mind you to offer and compete with the Newcastle deal.He is now there problem.
With regards to our R and R it would be good to know the roles of these individuals.I'm of the opinion that JR is running the recruitment show and everyone else is just facilitating the decisions made.
Its a sad state of affairs at the club right now and we have a long steep hill to climb.
I just read earlier Daniel Anderson has joined the dragons head of recruitment...would of been ideal at parra
Yeah .... dunno .. he can't exactly go out scouting when it's raining and get to all the grass roots locations . I'm all for giving the bloke something to do , but I'm not sure Head Of Recruitments the best gig. He'd be better than that goose we've got, 1000% but I don't think that should be our yardstick, just being better than the absolute spud we have . We need better in recruitment . Ando would make a good head of football , fuck MON off and let Ando sink his wheels into that gig.
Whilst the Brown situation is appalling and at least in part by our own ineptitude as a club, I agree Coryn there's a league wide problem - the most egregious case is the top of the table Bulldogs successfully poaching a "rising star" from the languishing Tigers by offering LESS than the Tigers offered.
That is quite literally the opposite of what the Salary Cap is intended to incentivise.
Well run teams exploit the system. Poorly run ones suffer from it.
I feel like there is light at the end of the tunnel. The fact JR has made bold calls in RCG, CG, SL, BC, RM and JO makes me think the only way is up. I feel like Junior was getting the tap but has adapted to the new system. Hoping we can recruit a few more for 2026. All our new buys have improved in 2025 with many having limited first grade experience.
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