{"id":165672,"date":"2025-09-24T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/165672\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:22:09","slug":"ryan-mattersons-future-up-in-the-air-after-departing-warrington-wolves-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/165672\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Matterson\u2019s future up in the air after departing Warrington Wolves \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/ryan-mattersons-new-club-up-in-the-air-after-departing-warrington-wolves\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Ryan Matterson\u2019s future up in the air after departing Warrington Wolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/OHO2116-2-e1755867826414-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RYAN MATTERSON has left Warrington Wolves \u2013 but his next destination is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian forward made the move to the Halliwell Jones Stadium in July on a short-term deal until the end of the campaign after failing to impress Parramatta Eels head coach Jason Ryles.<\/p>\n<p>There were some claims that Matterson could sign a longer-term contract with Warrington after impressing in the initial stages of his time at the Cheshire club.<\/p>\n<p>However, just one win in eight games during his time in England has put paid to that and the 30-year-old is heading back home to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Where Matterson ends up in 2026 still remains to be seen, however, with the forward contracted to the Eels for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Matterson\u2019s management are exploring options within the NRL about a potential move elsewhere, but most NRL sides have already spent up to their salary cap for next season by this stage.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old, who represented New South Wales in 2022 and has played 181 NRL games, is on a salary of A$600,000, according to this year\u2019s NRL Rich List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RYAN MATTERSON has left Warrington Wolves \u2013 but his next destination is unclear. The Australian forward made the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-165672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}