finished last weekend\u2019s game against Penrith at lock forward<\/a>, only to then be completely overlooked for Saturday\u2019s trip to Canberra.<\/p>\nRather than waste the next eight weeks with an out-of-form playmaker who will join Newcastle on a ten-year, $14m deal next year, Ryles wants to give some vital experience to Brown\u2019s potential No. 6 replacement Joash Papalii.<\/p>\n
The fact Parramatta are unlikely to feature in finals football, and Papalii already at the club, makes it easier for Ryles to drop Brown.<\/p>\n
Former international forward Mark Geyer said this week on 2GB that Parramatta \u201chad put their cue in the rack\u201d by snubbing Brown and focusing on 2026 \u2013 in July.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s taking the \u2018p\u2019 out of the fans and the supporters; I get what they\u2019re doing with young Papalii by putting him before all others, but you can\u2019t put a loss ahead of a win in any type of sport you play,\u201d Geyer said.<\/p>\n
Brad Fittler added on Nine\u2019s Freddy and the Eighth that Eels fans paid good money to watch the highest-paid players like Brown, who was still on the payroll the remainder of the year \u2013 and at an average $75,000 a month.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t understand why you would throw Dylan Brown to the wilderness, when everyone wants to see him play; he\u2019s part of the salary cap and taking up a huge part of it \u2013 make it work,\u201d Fittler said.<\/p>\n
Ryles said he had spoken to Brown about his plans to possibly axe him in favour of planning for the future, and even gave him the opportunity to try and join the Knights before the June 30 transfer deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in his short head-coaching career, Parramatta coach Jason Ryles became agitated when questioned if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","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=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}