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Parramatta faces a monolithic conflict soon aft Sunday's expansive last to bent connected to prima halfback Mitchell Moses.
Sources person told Wide World of Sports that Moses' absorption has already sounded retired the Storm and Roosters for 2024, with respective different clubs besides apt to to beryllium invited to articulation the hunt for the classy No.7.
Moses is contracted to the Eels until the extremity of adjacent play and and has an enactment successful his favour for 2024 that helium is yet to instrumentality up.
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Parramatta needs to fastener the prima halfback up earlier November 1, different helium volition beryllium escaped to negociate with rival clubs for the 2024 season.
Moses has enactment negotiations connected clasp passim the finals and his asking terms has lone accrued pursuing immoderate match-winning performances successful caller weeks.
Star halfbacks are successful abbreviated proviso and connected existent form, positive the wage headdress owed to rise, Moses has moved into the uncommon $1 million-a-season subordinate bracket.
COACH'S 'SLY' CALL ON EVEN OF DECIDER
What are the likelihood that Brad Arthur volition enactment successful a sly telephone telephone to erstwhile Panthers adjunct manager Trent Barrett this week?
Barrett is joining the Eels' coaching unit successful 2023 - but whitethorn find his enactment starts a small spot aboriginal successful the countdown to the large one.
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Just 2 years ago, Barrett was Ivan Cleary's close manus antheral astatine the Panthers earlier taking connected his ill-fated caput coaching relation astatine the Bulldogs.
But Barrett remains adjacent to galore of Penrith's weapon players and has an intimate moving cognition of their strengths and weaknesses.
In a crippled wherever 1 tiny extremity tin mean the quality betwixt winning and losing, Arthur is definite to person a chat to Barrett and spot what they tin travel up with.
DOGS SNAP UP RISING ROOSTER
The Bulldogs person continued their awesome build-up for 2023 by signing promising Sydney Roosters backrower Jack Stringer for adjacent season.
A 20-year-old forward, Stringer was a standout for the Roosters successful the Jersey Flegg Cup this season.
The kid has the close bloodlines excessively - his dada Paul was a useful prop who played astir 150 apical people games for North Sydney, the Northern Eagles, South Sydney and Parramatta from 1997 to 2006.
"Jack is simply a large kid and we are precise excited astir him," Bulldogs supremo Phil Gould told Wide World of Sports.
"We truly similar his vigor and toughness and his pathway astatine the Roosters was astir apt much constricted than what we tin connection him."
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PANTHERS TO LOSE GRAND FINAL STAR
The Panthers realise they can't bent onto their full powerhouse squad for 2023 and 1 antheral they whitethorn reluctantly chopped escaped is in-form guardant Spencer Leniu.
The Dragons, who person mislaid respective experienced forwards including Josh McGuire and Tariq Sims for adjacent season, are starring the hunt for Leniu.
The 22-year-old Kiwi has been a large improver passim 2022 and has the quality to marque the hard yards and crook the antiaircraft enactment back.
Several different nine person expressed involvement successful Leniu but astatine this aboriginal stage, the Dragons look the champion acceptable for the Samoan international.
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