{"id":306942,"date":"2026-02-28T19:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306942\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:53:19","slug":"matty-johns-interviews-dylan-brown-face-to-face-13m-deal-handling-pressure-eels-las-vegas-knights-v-cowboys-news-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306942\/","title":{"rendered":"Matty Johns interviews Dylan Brown, Face to Face, $13m deal, handling pressure, Eels, Las Vegas, Knights v Cowboys news, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watch Matty Johns go face-to-face with Knights star Dylan Brown on Fox League at 7:30pm AEDT on Friday.<\/p>\n

Knights recruit Dylan Brown has opened up on his $13 million switch from the Parramatta Eels, revealing the hilarious reaction his parents had to the eyewatering contract.<\/p>\n

Appearing on Face to Face with Matty Johns, Brown said his father laughed when he told him what the Knights had offered.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe goes, \u2018what, really?\u2019 My mum was sort of the same she thought I was lying,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

And his parents weren\u2019t the only ones stunned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had the same reaction as my dad. It was a bit of a shock,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The monster price tag shone the spotlight on Brown during his final season with the Eels as the playmaker came in for heavy criticism as Parramatta missed out on finals,<\/p>\n

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His play for the Eels suffered and later in the season, he was dropped from first grade.<\/p>\n

Despite all of this, Brown remained the ultimate teammate throughout a tricky ordeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to congratulate you on last year. I spoke to (Eels coach) Jason Ryles and he said you were outstanding with the young blokes. You showed a lot of class,\u201d Johns told Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good challenge \u2026 It was hard but I learnt a lot,\u201d Brown replied.<\/p>\n

Brown will step out for his Knights debut this Sunday when Newcastle open the 2026 NRL season against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Matty Johns go face-to-face with Knights star Dylan Brown on Fox League at 7:30pm AEDT on Friday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12587,39969,166546,167763,167761,167760,167757,2647,167758,121184,62755,13891,167762,167728,13893,111,139,64,13902,69,167759,45603,213,13883],"class_list":["post-306942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-america","tag-brandon-mychal-smith","tag-brown-embracing-pressure","tag-contract-offer","tag-details-hilarious-reaction","tag-disappointing-news","tag-exorbitant-price-tag","tag-fox-league","tag-hilarious-reaction","tag-injury-update","tag-jason-ryles","tag-las-vegas","tag-league-plot","tag-matty-johns","tag-nevada","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-nz","tag-playmaker-admits","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}