{"id":66691,"date":"2025-08-14T03:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66691\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:52:07","slug":"off-season-central-shaun-lane-announces-retirement-effective-immediately-parramatta-eels-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66691\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-season central, Shaun Lane announces retirement effective immediately, Parramatta Eels, news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eels forward Shaun Lane has announced his retirement from the NRL effective immediately, the club has announced. <\/p>\n<p>Lane hasn\u2019t played since taking an indefinite break from the game back in April to weigh up his future. <\/p>\n<p>FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every game of every round in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership, LIVE with no ad-breaks during play. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He only played in five games this season and will pull the curtain on his career after 186 NRL games.<\/p>\n<p>Lane joined the Eels in 2019, and played in 138 games for the club, including a grand final against Penrith in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old will remain at the club in another capacity, accepting a role in the Elite Pathways program. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve absolutely loved my time playing for the Eels,\u201d Lane said via a club-issued statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis club means a lot to me, and I\u2019m incredibly grateful for the experiences I\u2019ve had and the relationships I\u2019ve built here. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m really thankful to the fans for their unwavering support throughout my career. It\u2019s meant the world to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eels forward Shaun Lane has announced his retirement from the NRL effective immediately, the club has announced. Lane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,18198,763,11288,52947,52950,52949,22326,673,677,52948,52946,85],"class_list":["post-66691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-club-means","tag-fox-league","tag-grand-final","tag-indefinite-break","tag-kellyville","tag-magic-moses","tag-mitchell-moses","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-off-season-central","tag-shaun-lane","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66691","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=66691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}