They said in a brief statement: \u201cThe Parramatta Eels can confirm that Zac Lomax has been granted an immediate release from his playing contract to pursue opportunities outside the NRL.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe club would like to thank Zac for his contribution during his time with the Eels in 2025 and we wish him all the best for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lomax has been heavily linked with a move to R360 and it appears that those rumours now are set to come to fruition \u2013 which could have major implications for his career.<\/p>\n
Lomax\u2019s NRL career would effectively be over as the NRL have promised ten-year bans for any player who joins R360. Reports in Australia state that the terms of Lomax\u2019s release from Parramatta means he cannot sign for another NRL team until 2029 \u2013 but that would matter little if he joined R360 and Peter V\u2019landys\u2019 promise of lengthy bans was implemented.<\/p>\n
Lomax is the latest big name to leave his contract in the NRL. Melbourne Storm superstar Ryan Papenhuyzen was granted a release at the end of last season. Brisbane star Payne Haas is another who is believed to be a target of R360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They said in a brief statement: \u201cThe Parramatta Eels can confirm that Zac Lomax has been granted an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-288386","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\/288386","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=288386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}