{"id":483437,"date":"2025-12-14T18:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=483437"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:20:53","slug":"eels-facing-bears-hiccup-with-post-lomax-plan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=483437","title":{"rendered":"Eels facing Bears hiccup with post-Lomax plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talented local junior Sean Russell looks set to take over Zac Lomax<\/a>'s right wing spot at Parramatta<\/a> next season – but there could be a hiccup.<\/p>\n

Russell comes off contract at the end of next season and is squarely in the sights of the Perth Bears for their maiden campaign in 2027.<\/p>\n

The Eels are keen to retain Russell, who suddenly is a key man due to Lomax's shock departure, but he stands to do better financially at the Bears, who are desperate for experienced players to fill their roster.<\/p>\n

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"There is interest there so Sean has some decisions to make," Russell's manager Gavin Orr told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

Russell played 20 games for the Eels this year – mainly in the centres, scoring five tries and kicking 15 goals.<\/p>\n

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The Bears are slowly but surely putting together their 30 man squad with six signings to date.<\/p>\n

Former Canterbury halfback Toby Sexton will steer the team around the park while Leeds Rhinos centre Harry Newman, ex-Bulldogs forward Luke Smith, former Cowboys forward Emarly Bitungane, Panthers premiership winner Liam Henry and former Titans prop Iszac Fa'asuamaleaui have also signed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talented local junior Sean Russell looks set to take over Zac Lomax's right wing spot at Parramatta next season – but there could be a […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":483442,"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\/483437"}],"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=483437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483448,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483437\/revisions\/483448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/483442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}