{"id":520558,"date":"2026-03-05T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520558\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:30:12","slug":"jason-ryles-press-conference-mitchell-moses-melbourne-storm-vs-parramatta-eels-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520558\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Ryles press conference, Mitchell Moses, Melbourne Storm vs Parramatta Eels, Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eels coach Jason Ryles said his team will \u201chave to have a big schooner of reality and move on\u201d after the NRL\u2019s pre-season challenge winners crashed to a 52-4 defeat<\/a> at the hands of Melbourne.<\/p>\n

There was plenty of optimism surrounding Parramatta entering this season, and that was even before they were crowned champions of the league\u2019s pre-season tournament.<\/p>\n

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Ryles seemed to have got the Eels to turn a corner late last season, which coincided with halfback Mitchell Moses\u2019 return from injury and the arrival of new recruit Jonah Pezet was only expected to add an extra element of unpredictability to Parramatta\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n

Pezet and Moses, however, were rendered near useless on Thursday night, given little ball to work with as the Eels struggled to complete their sets and instead gifted Melbourne prime field position. <\/p>\n

The Storm turned that into 52 points and Ryles admitted it was a \u201cvery disappointing\u201d start to the season, even if he could take some solace from the fact 2025 started in very similar fashion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s round one. Let\u2019s not lose sight of that fact. But on the back of what Mitchell said and what we mentioned earlier… we sort of evolved ourselves to a standard of play that didn\u2019t look like that tonight,\u201d Ryles said of the loss, which was the worst of his short coaching career.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome really good lessons and we\u2019ll just have to have a big schooner of reality and move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The biggest lesson, according to Ryles, was that if the Eels are serious about challenging for a top-eight spot they can\u2019t give a quality team like the Storm so many opportunities on their own try-line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got three of the Test spine there and if you give them that much opportunity and don\u2019t tackle well then you get what you deserve,\u201d Ryles said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you asked me before the game was it going to end up like that I would have definitely said no. I\u2019ve obviously got to go and reflect on our preparation and what went well and what we need to work on. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut the bottom line is we just didn\u2019t give ourselves a chance tonight and they\u2019re a quality opposition regardless of who they put out there. They\u2019ve still got three of the four Test spine, which takes advantage of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It was a similar message from Moses, who said the Eels entered Thursday\u2019s game \u201cconfident\u201d of becoming the first team to beat a Craig Bellamy-coached team in round one. <\/p>\n

Instead, self-inflicted wounds proved their undoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just didn\u2019t complete,\u201d Moses said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how much per cent possession we had, but it didn\u2019t feel like much. We didn\u2019t end the sets where we wanted to, and we didn\u2019t complete high at all. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou complete low against a team like that here in Melbourne, that\u2019s what happens. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you said that was what it was going to be at the start of the day, I would have told you you were crazy. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t feel like that was going to happen. We came in confident and got our pants pulled down. We\u2019ll have to go back to the drawing board so we can get better, and it doesn\u2019t get much easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moses is right. The Eels travel to Brisbane next week, while they also take on the gritty Dragons in Round 3 followed by Western Sydney rivals Penrith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eels coach Jason Ryles said his team will \u201chave to have a big schooner of reality and move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[8300,64,63,4466,22326,761,762,158,668,259708,85,259599],"class_list":["post-520558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-andrew-jackson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-melbourne-storm","tag-mitchell-moses","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-press-conference","tag-shock-end","tag-sports","tag-storm-concerns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520558","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=520558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}