{"id":935817,"date":"2026-10-21T05:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935817\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:58:10","slug":"tyrell-sloan-linked-with-another-nrl-club-in-possible-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935817\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrell Sloan linked with another NRL club in possible lifeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyrell Sloan<\/a>, who signed a deal to head to the Super League<\/a> in 2027, could potentially have an NRL<\/a> lifeline with the Parramatta Eels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dragons winger signed a multi-year deal to join the Castleford Tigers<\/a> and head to the UK with NRL<\/a> teammates Damien Cook<\/a> and Mat Feagai.<\/p>\n

The difference for Sloan signing with the Tigers was the head coach at the time, Ryan Carr<\/a>, a former Dragons assistant and interim head coach.<\/p>\n

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However, Carr left the club during the season for “personal reasons.”<\/p>\n

In August, Sloan said on Channel Nine after a game that he wants to stay in the NRL<\/a> despite agreeing to join Castleford.<\/p>\n

For Parramatta, Josh Addo-Carr<\/a> tested positive for the use of cocaine in September. He has since been to rehab as he waits for the second test’s results.<\/p>\n

If the B sample is positive, the NRL<\/a> will hand him a 12-match suspension, ruling him out for three months if he is at the Eels or another club.<\/p>\n

The Eels have identified the Super League-bound player as Addo-Carr’s replacement, according to Paul Kent.<\/p>\n

“Tyrell Sloan<\/a>, who was, for all intents we thought going to England<\/a>, might get a lifeline at the Eels,” the journalist said on The Paul Kent Podcast.<\/p>\n

Addo-Carr is reportedly on $400,000 in 2027 and is in the final year of the extension he signed with Parramatta after a solid outing in 2025.<\/p>\n

This is the second time he has tested positive for drug use, after testing positive for cocaine in 2024 when he was at the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs<\/a> before he was meant to play against the Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> in week 1 of the finals.<\/p>\n

Kent is confident that Addo-Carr will not be handed another chance after being randomly drug-tested and testing positive for the second time in two years.<\/p>\n

“Parramatta don’t have to pay him for those 12 games under the NRL<\/a> contracts, but what they do have to do is carry that on their cap,\u201d Kent explained.<\/p>\n

“So, from a player point of view, you’re not getting what Addo-Carr brought to your team, but you’re getting a pretty good facsimile. You’re also getting it for much less. Addo-Carr is on around $450,000 to $500,000 at Parramatta.<\/p>\n

“You’ll get Sloan for essentially minimum wage. You’ll get him for all the games, not half of them.”<\/p>\n

Sloan struggled with his form at the Dragons, but in the second half of the 2026 season, he found confidence and performed well, including hitting a two-point field goal to help the Dragons defeat the Eels in the final round of the season.<\/p>\n

The St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> were trying to offload Josh Kerr’s contract to keep Sloan.<\/p>\n

Given the Dragons’ salary cap, keeping Sloan is unlikely now.<\/p>\n

The Super League<\/a> club previously addressed the rumours that he wanted to stay in the NRL<\/a>, indicating he would still make the move.<\/p>\n

Castleford start their pre-season training next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrell Sloan, who signed a deal to head to the Super League in 2027, could potentially have an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-935817","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\/935817","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=935817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}