Mike Rush

They are the Dragons, aren't they? He is too, yeah.

And the St. Helens boss has come over, Mike Rush, I think his name is, to run Parramatta.

I mean, what do you mean it's not a World Cup? It's a global game.

They're moving all over the country.

I can understand that.

So does the decision come from Matthew Beach, the chair, Mike Rush, now the CEO, Jason Riles, the coach, and Mark O'Neill, the general manager of football? Those four people.

Now, do they canvas people outside of that group and say, do they go to their major sponsor and say, Do you have a thought on...

Are they doing a temperature check on other people within their organisation? Just going...

So I don't think, you know, Josh Odekar will play for Parramatta again, but...

If he gets in front of them today, who knows? Who knows what could happen? But I'd be surprised if he does.

Is Mike Rush in the country, in the position yet? Has he started at Parramatta? He's definitely started, Jimmy.

He has definitely

I can understand that.

So does the decision come from Matthew Beach, the chair, Mike Rush, now the CEO, Jason Riles, the coach, and Mark O'Neill, the general manager of football? Those four people.

Now, do they canvas people outside of that group and say – do they go to their major sponsor and say – Do you have a thought on – are they doing a temperature check on other people within their organisation, just going – or do they just make their decision? They might already have

that information from major sponsors or major backers to say – Whatever.

So I don't think, you know, Josh Odekar will play for Parramatta again, but...

If he gets in front of them today, who knows? Who knows what could happen? But I'd be surprised if he does.

Is Mike Rush in the country, in the position yet? Has he started at Parramatta? He's definitely started, Jimmy.

He has definitely started.

If he gets in front of them today, who knows? Who knows what could happen? But I'd be surprised if he does.

Is Mike Rush in the country, in the position yet? Has he started at Parramatta? He's definitely started, Jimmy.

He has definitely started.

Last I heard, he hadn't obtained the suitable visa to travel to Australia yet.

You would, you would.

And, you know, that's always that consideration.

If Mike Rush is having trouble getting a visa to Australia, surely Josh Addo-Carr would have a problem getting one to England.

Well, yeah, I don't think he's having trouble.

I can understand that.

So does the decision come from Matthew Beach, the chair, Mike Rush, now the CEO, Jason Riles, the coach, and Mark O'Neill, the general manager of football? Those four people.

Now, do they canvas people outside of that group and say, do they go to their major sponsor and say, Do you have a thought on...

Are they doing a temperature check on other people within their organisation, just going...

We've got Parramatta Eels stuff to talk about, of course.

Mike Rush made official immediately after we did our Spencer Lenu podcast, but I think we covered enough ground in that one there to not be too upset about that one, Craig.

We did talk about Mike Rush as a near certainty for the Eagles last week, but now confirmed.

We will speak about that shortly.

But also the World Cup and a big fan Q&A to make a turn at the end of the podcast with.

on the side of brevity this week which means you know it's a packed docket so the sting is going to start pumping but yeah hello to everyone in chat thanks for coming in on another Tuesday night as the ABC sounds blur out for us and I'll forward over to you big fella what's on the docket today for Parramatta before we get into anything else

OK, so we're really going to steam through the news segment because the fan Q&A, we've just been inundated by questions that we'd really love to get through as many as we can, if not all of them.

So just first cab off the docket, as you mentioned, John, after we did the special Spencer Lenu announcement podcast, Hot on the heels of that was the Mike Rush confirmation.