It turns out there was another twist in the Jonah Pezet situation and it has resulted in a truly bizarre outcome with the Parramatta Eels set to house the Melbourne halfback for a sole season before he joins the Brisbane Broncos on a long term deal. It is…a singularly odd scenario and The Tip Sheet tries to rationalise it for the Blue & Gold as Sixties and Forty20 both give their honest thoughts on the topic.
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Ah Craig hows the batting average ?
3 years eh ?
Mate you need to get better sources!
And before your well known thin skin gets pierced, I’m only joking!
Personally I just don’t rate Pezet and i understand the thinking that the boys we have are a little young but I’d rather have Dean Hawkins than have Pezet for the year. We come out of it looking so bloody desperate.
Once Pezet rejected us, we should have just walked away.
I just don’t see the upside no matter how you spin it.
We tutor him for a year and the Broncos get the benefits.
What happened to Ryles saying that we need to get first grade games into our youngsters?
And that it’s all about culture and the badge ??
The league world is laughing at the Eels at the moment and I reckon they deserve it 100%. And it’s not just us lunatic emotional fans, there are plenty of respected league identities laughing and scratching their heads.
Whats the message to the youngsters already here? Look Pezet is no 6. Don’t worry about 2026, get yourselves ready to battle it out in 2027 ?
I’m sure Joash, Hawkins and twidle fancied themselves to get a big pre season in and then battle for the jersey once Dylan left but now what’s the use ?
It’s a dog of a deal and the sort of thing that the Tigers would have done.
So basically, Moses spends the next two years playing with rookie halves trying to find some sort of combination and hope that the 2027 5/8 actually performs and isnt just a flash in the pan.
I haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast yet but looking forward to it. Hope this is all just click bait.
Just when I was warming to Sarantinos, O’neil and Ryles. FMD, this is closest I’ve come in years to putting my hands up and saying I’m done with this shit show for a while.
Talk about being played, I thought the Grant situation was embarrassing for the Tigers, it was just cringe watching him develop his game only for Melbourne to reap the rewards.
The better Pezet goes the dumber we look, and Brisbane sit back with an established 7 this year while we develop their next replacement for next season.
Can it get any more embarrassing? We will the laughing stock of the NRL.
Will I be supporting Pezet? Crap no, I’ll be struggling to support the club to be honest.
The club better think long and hard while they have the chance, F Pezet and F Anasta, while I’m at it, stuff all involved with the dumbest decision this club could make since, well since the Dylan Brown contract. This club does not learn.
It’s clear Sarantinos and O’Neil cannot compete with players on the open market, they’ve fallen arse backwards with the signings we’ve made and nothing more.
We aren’t winning a comp with Pezet next season and if we do play semis then who cares. This club is well beyond just making the semis, we need a comp. And what do we do in 2027? Back to square one.
What a waste of Effing time.
Damn I’m pissed off right now.
Hahaha this one is very funny!
Pezet will play well next year and will be a better back if Mitch gets injured then Hawkins as he is a better player.
It gives Lorenzo a season in nsw cup and he sees a pathway to nrl so he will not leave like Blaze and Sanders.
If we locked up Pezet on $600k for 5 years and he did another acl or Lorenzo left I wonder what your reaction would be Joseph?
Good on you for not supporting the club because they signed Pezet for one season. How dare they sign a potentialy good player that can help the side next season and give time for some elite juniors to develop.
You are funny Joe
Tony you can look at it anyway you want. If the club was so hell bent on developing Lorenzo then they wouldn’t have gone so hard after Galvin. Further, they wanted Petez as a long term option.
Instead we end up being a surrogate mother for Brisbanes new halfback.
And by the way, how many elite halves have developed in the last 40 years? How’s Sanders going? Blaize is a loss but you can put that one down to same crew you put a clause in a players contract who was yet to debut while having clauses with a playing blocking his pathway. The club was left holding their D’s in the end.
And now this, I can tell the only ones going Hahaha if this eventuates is Brisbane.
You honestly think this a shrewd, calculated move to buy us time to develop Lorenzo? 🤣🤣 to you.
Pezet best option for 2026 simple we matched it with best teams and he makes us better Joash and Dean aint gonna cut it. They needed see Lorenzo compete against grown man in cup and didn’t get that luxury when Galvin in market
Tony I think Joseph has nailed it.
People have to stop this ..we are just treading water until Lorenzo plan. It’s rubbish.
We offered Galvin a 5 year deal and he laughed at us.
Went to the Bulldogs
We offered a LONG TERM deal to Pezet. I’m told we offered 4 years. Sixties says it was 3.
And he laughed at us but had nowhere to go next year and asked if we could help him out before he goes to the Broncos in 2027.
This just doesn’t line up with the assertion that we are looking at a stop gap until Lorenzo develops..
The club shpuld be saying ” We tried to get Galvin and Pezet but they told us no so we have no other choice but to look to our juniors and try and convince the RL World that it was our intention all along”
When did the club deny they offered Galvin a long term deal??
Everyone knows Galvin will end up a lock sooner than later.
Pezet will be good for a year hopefully and who knows who we might sign in the meantime.
Enjoy the ride, personally I’m glad we did not spend a crap load of cash on long year deals for Galvin or Pez.
Mate we can’t go in 2026 with Joash or Hawkins we were top 4 team form wise end of the year ,this gives us chance to develop Lorenzo who impressed in nsw cup or sign someone’s else but 2026
Well this is an interesting turn of events. No not the signing. That around a bunch of negative comments, I, usually the pesimistic one (though i prefer realist), am positive about this signing!
Ok, i am negative in the sense that typically O’Neil didn’t get him signed up long term. Another ‘Fail’ for him. But we have him for a year and now it is up to Ryles and the players to make Pezet not want to leave. I’d have more faityh in them getting that job done than O’Neil. And lets face it would he be the first player to renig on a contract?
At the end of the day I dont believe Joash showed anywhere near enough to say, he will definetly be the long term solution. He might, but he still needs development and improvement. Anyone further down the depth chart (please don’t compare Hawkins to Pezet) is also obviously untested and hence was never really likely to be ready for 2026 (if ever). If the Eels have aspirations of Finals footy in 2026, this was the only option. If we can’t keep him beyond 2026, then at least this gets us through to next year when we have a chance (all be it in a more competitive market) to potentially pick up another quality half on the open market next year..
Awesome move we get great bridge for 2026 as he is best option then after season in NSW Cup Lorenzo is our 6. Perfect outcome as Pezet long term not a 6 but best we can do for now.
Yeah it’s not ideal but I won’t be calling for heads over it. End of the day talataina is one of the biggest half prospects in the game but he’s only 19, give him a year in cup to develop and he can come in for 2027.
Overall I think it just makes it less awkward going into 2027 with players we already have signed for that year and going to them to say “we’re dropping you for this other guy we wanted to develop”.
I know other fans will want heads but Ryles has given us a good first year of coaching so worst case scenario he has his first ‘miss’ in the signings department.
And I understand the club statement is probably a cop out answer but it would be nice to keep a local junior with big potential on less money long term because I doubt he would’ve wanted to wait for 4 years until moses maybe retires unless he wants another year or 2 after that.
Personally if you wanted the 1 year option I would’ve like to give it to volkman so he could up his price again and go to a club like the bears in 27
Just watched the podcast. John, absolutely agree with you.
I can see you were totally unimpressed.
Your best observation – you want a bridge , go get DCE and it’s exactly what the Tigers would do.