Broncos star eyes recall after 287-day layoff; Dog pushes for debut<\/a><\/p>\nThere will be clubs around the league who see Burton as a five-eighth, meaning he\u2019ll all but certainly command more money from rival teams than the Bulldogs will be able to offer.<\/p>\n
One of those teams could be Parramatta, who are looking for a five-eighth to partner Mitch Moses.<\/p>\n
Read believes Burton and the Eels would be a perfect fit. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019ll be the ideal partner for Mitch Moses. You look at when Dylan Brown was there, that combination worked and I think Matt Burton is the running six that will work well alongside Moses,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n
NRL360 host Braith Anasta agreed, noting that Burton will be suited playing alongside a natural No. 7 like Moses.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoses wants to run the team. That\u2019s his style. Burton is quiet, he has a simple game plan running the ball and he\u2019s a great kicker. You\u2019d think that would be a really good combination,\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I\u2019m the Eels, I\u2019m going for Burton if he wants to play six and not willing to stay at the Bulldogs in the centres.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s playing at the Dogs with someone who isn\u2019t a seven. If he had a dominant seven inside of him, he wouldn\u2019t have to worry about game plans and leading a team around as much. He can just focus on his running and kicking game. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you can get a Matt Burton who is running and his long kicks and bombs, then that\u2019s what Parramatta can do well with.\u201d<\/p>\n
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So what sort of coin could Burton earn if he links up with the Eels?<\/p>\n
Mitch Moses is one of the highest paid playmakers in the game at around $1.3 million. Could Burton fetch seven figures too?<\/p>\n
Read says that even with Moses\u2019 price tag on the books, the Eels should offer Burton at least $1 million.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you go big for him. These are your halves,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cLook at their spine, three of their four spine positions are in place. Isaiah Iongi isn\u2019t ong monster money, Tallyn Da Silva and Mitch Moses. Two of those they don\u2019t have on monster money so you can throw big money (at a five-eighth).<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I\u2019m the Eels, it\u2019s the logical move for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is anything over $1 million, you\u2019re probably going to get him because the Dogs won\u2019t be offering Burton that for a centre. If the Dogs are offering him $800,000, if you go $1.1 million, you can get him at that,\u201d Anasta added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Parramatta Eels have been tipped as a club who could make a serious play at Matt Burton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-771931","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\/771931","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=771931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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