{"id":48471,"date":"2025-08-06T18:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48471\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:29:28","slug":"pezet-eyes-week-to-week-nrl-in-storm-spine-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48471\/","title":{"rendered":"Pezet eyes week-to-week NRL in Storm spine squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonah Pezet says he wants to chase the opportunity to play in the NRL every week, but insists a loan deal away from Melbourne is not yet at the front of his mind.<\/p>\n

Melbourne’s half-in-waiting for several years, Pezet has been named to come off the bench against Brisbane on Thursday night with Jahrome Hughes injured.<\/p>\n

Pezet is signed with the Storm until the end of 2029, but is believed to have a clause in his contract that allowed him to speak to rivals if Hughes re-signed.<\/p>\n

Hughes did so last week, extending his time in purple until 2030.<\/p>\n

The other factor is the future of Cameron Munster, who is contracted until the end of 2027 but been linked to potential Perth interest.<\/p>\n

Both Pezet and Munster share a manager in Braith Anasta, while a loan deal could potentially buy time for Munster to decide his future beyond his current deal.<\/p>\n

\"Jonah<\/p>\n

Jonah Pezet scores against the Titans during his debut NRL season. (Dave Hunt\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to play NRL every week,” Pezet said.<\/p>\n

“As a kid you grow up and that’s what you want to do. So of course I want to chase those opportunities.<\/p>\n

“But I’m just focused on putting my best foot forward every week, so that’s when Belza (coach Craig Bellamy) picks me in the team.”<\/p>\n

Melbourne hooker Harry Grant this week backed the idea of loans, speaking of the good it did him at Wests Tigers while stuck behind Cameron Smith in 2020.<\/p>\n

Asked whether a loan deal could be an option for him, Pezet said it was not something he wanted to be considering.<\/p>\n

\"Harry<\/p>\n

Harry Grant runs out of dummy-half during his season in Tigers colours. (Brendon Thorne\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

“I think I’ll leave that up to Braith and everyone at the club … they’ll sort it all out,” Pezet said.<\/p>\n

“With Hughesy going down there’s an opportunity there, and I’ll keep putting my best foot forward so that when the time comes I’m ready for that wherever it might be.<\/p>\n

“Obviously the best footy I play, the more NRL I’m going to get, so that’s what I’m focused on.”<\/p>\n

The Storm have stuck with Tyran Wishart as Hughes’ replacement at No.7, after the reigning Dally M Medallist dislocated his shoulder last month.<\/p>\n

Bellamy on Wednesday left the door open for Hughes to return before finals, with the 22-year-old avoiding surgery and back training away from the main squad.<\/p>\n

Melbourne have not got a specific plan for Pezet off the bench, who has had limited football in the past 16 months with an ACL rupture and subsequent setback.<\/p>\n

Pezet was brought on at halfback late in last week’s win over Parramatta, with Wishart shifting to lock.<\/p>\n

“I’m definitely confident in my own ability to go out there and play 80 minutes of footy in the halfback position,” Pezet said.<\/p>\n

“But that’s not what’s best for the team at the moment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonah Pezet says he wants to chase the opportunity to play in the NRL every week, but insists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,4567,8095,4575,27285,647,761,762,158,85,4515],"class_list":["post-48471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cameron-munster","tag-harry-grant","tag-jahrome-hughes","tag-jonah-pezet","tag-melbourne","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports","tag-wests-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48471","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=48471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}