Briefly:
Parramatta star Junior Paulo’s season is all however over after scans confirmed he suffered a Lisfranc damage in his foot in Thursday night time’s loss to the Rabbitohs.
Paulo has been dominated out for eight weeks, which successfully ends his 2024 season, with the bottom-placed Eels no hope of constructing the finals.
What’s subsequent?
Parramatta faces the Gold Coast Titans subsequent Saturday away from dwelling because the membership awaits a call on who its subsequent full-time head coach shall be.
Parramatta’s yr from hell has continued, with Junior Paulo’s season successfully over after scans confirmed a critical foot damage.
Scans confirmed on Friday that Paulo had suffered a Lisfranc damage in his foot in Thursday night time’s 32-16 loss to South Sydney, ruling the prop out for eight weeks and nearly definitely ending his season.
The information got here as interim coach Trent Barrett turned the warmth on his gamers for being the architects of their very own downfall, with the Eels again on the backside of the NRL ladder.
The defeat — the membership’s fourth in a row — got here after per week through which it emerged that star halfback Mitchell Moses had unloaded on his teammates and the membership’s hierarchy in a post-match tirade after the earlier week’s loss to Newcastle.
The Eels have only one win to their identify since axing Brad Arthur, with the membership’s subsequent everlasting head coach but to be decided.
Dean Younger, Jason Ryles and Josh Hannay are the ultimate three contenders for the position, and whereas Barrett has made a pitch for the gig, his 1-5 file since stepping in as caretaker is unlikely to strengthen his case.
Parramatta’s board met this week, however an announcement is unlikely to come back till subsequent week.
Paulo’s damage provides recent angst for the Eels, who will end the yr with Moses, Paulo and Clint Gutherson all on the sector collectively in solely eight of 24 matches.
Moses’ frustration was clear once more on Thursday night time, sin-binned late within the sport for an expert foul after the Eels had possibilities to steal the match.
Camped on Souths’ line for a lot of the primary half, the Eels clawed again to inside a transformed strive, earlier than permitting the Rabbitohs to cross simply earlier than the halftime siren.
“There’s 9 seconds to go and you’ll’t do this, we have to be extra determined there,” Barrett stated.
“At 26-16 on the finish it is respectable, and also you let in one other bizarre attempt to it blows out to 30 and also you assume, ‘they have been walloped once more’.
“It is not the case, however we have got to get that out of our sport.
“We had been too sideways [with the ball]… you will not rating fairly tries within the moist.
“The tries that you’ll rating off a kick or a drop or by taking part in by groups, they’re nonetheless value 4 factors, they do not need to be lovely, and we had been most likely responsible of that.”
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