Slip slidin' away: Eels lose another star with Mahoney set to join Dogs

By The Roar / Editor

Reed Mahoney has reportedly informed the Eels he will leave at the end of next season, paving the way for the hooker to join the Bulldogs.

After dining with Canterbury officials including general manager Phil Gould and coach Trent Barrett earlier this month, Mahoney will reportedly take up a four-year deal at Belmore from 2023.

It will be a full-circle move for the 23-year-old, who played for the Bulldogs’ SG Ball and under-20s teams before being told he wasn’t in the club’s NRL plans.

Debuting for Parramatta in 2018, the tough dummy-half has played 73 NRL games and was on the verge of a maiden Queensland Origin appearance this year until a shoulder issue intervened.

Without the injured Mahoney’s influence, the Eels valiantly made it to week two of the 2021 finals but just lacked the firepower to challenge for the title.

His departure would be another gut punch to Parramatta after second-rower Isaiah Papali’i last week announced he will switch to the Wests Tigers in 2023.

The Eels have since locked up captain Clint Gutherson until the end of 2025, but NSW Origin prop Junior Paulo remains unsigned beyond next year.

More to come…

The Crowd Says:

2021-11-29T04:54:46+00:00

mushi

Roar Guru


Not sure that a guy who posts 1000 comments a month should be too proud of getting 13 things right in the past five years.

2021-11-26T23:12:55+00:00

Adam Bagnall

Roar Guru


How many games did he play in the halves? Not enough to make such a big call I'd say. Give him an extended run in the halves and we will see what he's made of

2021-11-26T19:28:43+00:00

Mr Right

Roar Rookie


Nil??

2021-11-26T15:04:26+00:00

Dandragon

Guest


:laughing:

2021-11-26T14:48:51+00:00

Dandragon

Roar Rookie


You are such a bl00dy drama queen & so self absorbed! Let’s go with your lunacy. I gave the innocent u such a hard time that ZT evicted you. For good. After the multiple new IDs you created, after multiple bans. Those multiple bans didn’t have anything at all to do with their final f%£k off to you, eh? And, coz they evicted you, the whole site then went down? That’s effectively what you are saying.

2021-11-26T14:38:49+00:00

Dandragon

Roar Rookie


Does he also remember when i responded to an article on kids’ league & described my RELEVANT experiences as a single mum of 3? Does he remember how I was 100% on topic when you launched into the most misogynistic “attack” I’ve ever experienced based solely & entirely on one word: SINGLE. Had I omitted that one word, you would’ve have ZERO stimulus for your apparent humour attacking my single status. I know you’d like to think that I have 3 kids to 27 fathers & have chased each of them all away. And good luck to you. You are welcome to that thought. It’s not your right to share your prejudices so readily online…& do so anticipating the applause you’d receive from your loser bogan socially conservative mates. Let’s face it. I wind u up coz I’m female. FULL STOP. Tell me, what else do you know that Eels remembers? What a stupid threat to dish up. I very much hopes he remembers it ALL. You are the one traumatised by your unceremonious booting…made clear my your chronic reference to ZT.

2021-11-26T14:26:03+00:00

Dandragon

Roar Rookie


And a gorilla “so hairy down there” blah blah blah. Your fanclub loved you for that too. Tell me again how I brought that website down (?) You are beyond ignorant. You are one malicious individual. I struggle to say person.

2021-11-26T14:23:27+00:00

Dandragon

Roar Rookie


Oh, excellent. So happy he remembers! We can have a good laugh about how you called me a dog on four legs searching for a bone. That earned you so much applause, sadly.

2021-11-26T14:15:56+00:00

Dandragon

Roar Rookie


Have you not noticed? No, you wouldn’t have coz you truly are mentally deficient. When you post on topic…guess what! I leave you alone. It doesn’t take a genius. But you are very very far from that so I shouldn’t be surprised. Problem is your emotions habitually get the better of you in every article & off you go…on some stupid unrelated tangent. Every time. You stop. I stop. Easy.

2021-11-26T14:02:32+00:00

Glory Bound

Roar Rookie


Are you unhappy about the updates or that the evil FOX empire is getting the credit? Mushi and I buried the hatchet after our original "Giggity Giggity" argument and agreed to a truce and to stay off each other's posts. I kept my side of the bargain. Mushi didn't. Not that any of that is any of your business in any case. And don't talk to me about manipulating forums when you got Zero Tackle shut down for a month to remove your comments a few years back, and you are trying the same tricks here on this forum. You forget, Eelsalmighty knows everything that happened on both sides and that the site was down for that period. He needn't get involved, it's best that he doesn't. But just know there is still at least one other person left here on this site who knows the truth about you and your dark and inglorious past on Zero Tackle.

2021-11-26T13:52:35+00:00

Dandragon

Roar Rookie


Deal! I’ll do that after you’ve gone back to Mushi’s post and answered his reply, instead of resorting to pathetically puerile responses. This is not YOUR forum to manipulate. Your post is particularly entertaining given how many times contributors have criticised you for posting ad nauseum without reading a word of the article. You’ve routinely laughed it off like: Oh, did you really think I’d bother with that? You just can’t wait to shoot your mouth off…& the way you interrupt threads to announce what you believe is super-scoop Fox ‘news’ is downright disrespectful. Oh, look what I just saw on Fox! Like that makes you somehow on the ball. It’s rude! Post your own damn article & then interrupt the thread it generates with your own Fox breaking stories. Rude!

2021-11-26T13:49:25+00:00

Glory Bound

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I have posted plenty of comments making these predictions or assessments of players either not suited to a position or to the NRL etc. I have listed my past profiles often enough. Feel free to browse through them. On Zero Tackle, I posted most of my comments as SSTID_1970 and briefly as Nero. I predicted the top 3 finish and GF this year, but I tipped the Raiders to finish 4th and the Eels to finish behind them, on top of the Eels. So, yes. I was... wrong! I can live with that. I don't claim that I am never wrong... just seldom wrong. Understand, when I make these claims, there is a certain amount of tongue in cheek about it. In your rush to be right, Mr Right, I think you overlook that.

2021-11-26T13:26:35+00:00

Glory Bound

Roar Rookie


Do you really have nothing better to do or anything more interesting in your life than obsessing over me and seeking to gain my attention at every opportunity? It must be so depressing to be you. How about you try to make a relevant comment to the actual story for once. Surprise us all if you have that much in you.

2021-11-26T13:01:48+00:00

Dandragon

Roar Rookie


Or it was accidental. How many times have you persistently, routinely, repetitively, habitually, painfully referenced your own “FTS” in your own errors? Ya know, that “FTS” thing - once was enough…seven times was beyond pushing it…57532 times was enough to send us all into the downward spiral that is your mind. Lousy retort, needless to say, in the event you missed that.

2021-11-26T10:27:55+00:00

Mr Right

Roar Rookie


GB, you seem to have an infinite of knowledge of the NRL game. Just querying how many articles you have posted stating these predictions in the spotlight of an article for all to review & comment upon?

2021-11-26T09:06:41+00:00

Short Memory

Roar Rookie


No insult taken. You may be right. I hope for your sake (and TB's) that you are. But I think reports of Eels death have been greatly exaggerated. They have lost only one of the four members of their spine (arguably the least important and easiest to replace). The other three are established, experienced and still have their best years ahead of them - and took Eels to within a whisker of the GF. Yes the Eels gave up two hard running back rowers to clubs who were willing to pay more. Again, not the hardest position in the NRL to replace. And BA has shown he can get a good game out of a back rower that wasn't rated elsewhere. They've still got Mahoney for 23, and have kept some change in the piggy bank. Doggies meanwhile still don't have a genuine number 7 and have the exciting but one dimensional Dufty at FB. And have already blow all their salary cap cookies for 23 - so will be looking to offload rather than recruit. On balance, the Eels are looking a shade more comfortable.

2021-11-26T02:23:20+00:00

Glory Bound

Roar Rookie


Unlimited TPA's only benefit the richer NRL clubs at the detriment of clubs that are struggling financially and to attract corporate sponsors. Clubs don't really need to cheat the salary cap anymore. Let's see how that impacts the NRL and increases the great divide between the Haves and the Have Nots.

2021-11-26T01:59:01+00:00

Censored Often

Roar Rookie


Have you not heard? After not winning the premiership in 2021 Uncle Nick has upgraded to a salary circus tent. Threepeat on it's way....

2021-11-26T01:56:09+00:00

Censored Often

Roar Rookie


I wonder if Cotric digs his heel in the house of salary cap card falls to bits.

2021-11-26T01:06:07+00:00

Phil

Roar Rookie


Terry, in my post I said they should aim for a top 8 spot in 2022, then in my next post on the same topic, should aim for a top 4 in 2023.

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