{"id":282680,"date":"2023-04-02T07:23:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=282680"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T15:59:32","slug":"storm-beast-meets-jones-to-discuss-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=282680","title":{"rendered":"Storm beast meets Jones to discuss switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hulking Melbourne<\/a> prop Nelson Asofa-Solomona<\/a> has met with Wallabies<\/a> coach Eddie Jones<\/a> about a potential code switch.<\/p>\n

Sydney Morning Herald journalist Michael Chammas broke the news during Nine's NRL broadcast on Sunday.<\/p>\n

"He is off-contract at the end of this year, he has a history of rugby, he was brought up playing rugby union, and he's exploring his options at the moment," Chammas said.<\/p>\n

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"I spoke to the Melbourne Storm, they are not surprised by Nelson speaking to rugby union.<\/p>\n

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"But they say they are closing in on a three-year extension to keep Nelson in the game until 2026.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

The news comes a week after teenage Roosters superstar Joseph Suaalii signed a three-year deal with Rugby Australia<\/a> worth $1.6 million a year, starting in 2024.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Jones has spent weeks now signalling a poaching raid on rugby league, and he has several NRL stars in his sights.<\/p>\n

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Asofa-Solomona, 27, \ufeffhas played 166 NRL games for Melbourne since making his first grade debut in 2015.<\/p>\n

He has also played 12 Tests for New Zealand.<\/p>\n

He is one of the biggest bodies in the competition, standing at two metres tall.<\/p>\n

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Hulking Melbourne prop Nelson Asofa-Solomona has met with Wallabies coach Eddie Jones about a potential code switch. Sydney Morning Herald journalist Michael Chammas broke the […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282682,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282680\/revisions\/282682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}