Ryles stopped short of confirming the club\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n
WHAT’S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n However, he admitted that the Eels would discuss the situation internally as speculation surrounding Luai\u2019s future continues to intensify with reports emerging that the Perth Bears are set to make an eleventh-hour bid.<\/p>\n \u201cI will go back and talk to the people that I need to at the club and we\u2019ll make a decision going forward,\u201d Ryles said following the side\u2019s loss to the Roosters on Saturday night.<\/p>\n \u201cBut for me, tonight\u2019s about the game and not so much about recruitment, so I\u2019ll address that if and when we need to.\u201d<\/p>\n It was at that point that Australian Associated Press journalist Scott Bailey proposed that the potential pairing of Luai and Mitchell Moses – who have partnered together in the halves for the NSW Blues – could significantly strengthen Parramatta\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n \u201cYou talk about how much your defence has improved,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, there are two sides to the game, but your defence has improved so much.<\/p>\n \u201cThen you put together two guys who played together for NSW in the halves, it would help your attack a fair bit, I dare say, wouldn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n Chooks celebrate Tupou 300 in style | 02:48<\/p>\n Ryles conceded the combination would have appeal, but emphasised it was purely hypothetical.<\/p>\n \u201cI reckon,\u201d Ryles responded.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m only talking about it (with the) scenario. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n \u201cI said it the other day. When elite players become available, we are always interested and we are in a position to execute on stuff.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether it\u2019s one of the next ones or whoever it is, we\u2019ll work that out as we go. <\/p>\n \u201cBut we have a really clear strategy that we\u2019re working towards and obviously we\u2019ve got a lot of young players here at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n Tupou marks 300th with a try | 00:30<\/p>\n He then pointed out the club\u2019s recent contract extensions and recruitment strategy as evidence that any decision would need to align with their long-term vision rather than the short-term.<\/p>\n \u201cIzzy\u2019s signed for five years. Mitchell\u2019s signed for five years. Tallyn\u2019s signed for four years,\u201d the head coach continued.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve extended Ryley (and) we\u2019ve extended a number of players (and) we\u2019re looking to extend more. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a long-term view and anyone who\u2019s an elite player that becomes available that we think\u2019s going to help us going forward into the future, we are very interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parramatta Eels coach Jason Ryles has remained coy over reports linking the club with star five-eighth Jarome Luai,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-793722","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\/793722","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=793722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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