Parramatta Eels confirm Zac Lomax signing for 2025 NRL season

April 16, 2024 11:23 am.by Jack Hudson

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The Parramatta Eels have announced the signing of Dragons outside back Zac Lomax on a four-year deal for the beginning of the 2025 NRL Premiership season.

The signing follows weeks of speculation surrounding Lomax’s future at the club, with his request to be released from his current contract being approved at the beginning of April.

Lomax will play his 100th game for St George Illawarra this weekend having entered the league as a player of great promise with the potential to play for New South Wales in State of Origin.

The former Australian Schoolboy has had only three seasons in first grade — including the current campaign — where the club’s winning rate was above 50%.

Lomax’s best season to date at the Dragons was in 2020, when he scored 13 tries and kicked 63 goals.

Since then, he has failed to score more than 10 tries in a season, and only in 2022 did he kick more goals (71).

Issues with Lomax’s performances have mounted with his tendency to throw low-percentage flick passes that often result in errors or turnovers.

Former Dragons coach Anthony Griffin attempted to remedy the issue through positional changes without success.

Current St George coach Shane Flanagan opted to start Lomax on the right wing for the 2024 NRL season — a move that has been widely reported as the catalyst for his release request.

Lomax is expected to return to his favoured left-centre position at the Eels, who have struggled for depth in that spot since Tom Opacic departed the club in 2022.

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