VERY BAD NEWS…Parramatta Player will miss 2024 season

Arthur Miller-Stephen would miss the entire 2024 NRL season after suffering a serious knee injury at training.
The full-back – born in 2003 – made his NRL debut in Round 23 of the 2023 campaign, scoring the opening try in a 26-20 victory against St George Illawarra Dragons on home soil.
Having also featured nine times for the Eels’ New South Wales Cup side this year, scoring four tries, it had looked like 2024 could be another season of progression, but this injury has halted those ambitions in their tracks.
Brad Arthur’s men will look to improve on the 10th-place finish they achieved on the ladder this term come 2024. Earlier today, they released an injury update on their club website, with Miller-Stephen the worst-affected of the eight players named.
Co-captain Clint Gutherson is also recovering from a knee injury which he picked up in their final fixture of the 2023 season, with ‘aims’ to be fit for the start of the new campaign.
Elsewhere, both Daejarn Asi and Makahesi Makatoa picked up problems following their appearances in this autumn’s Pacific Championships for Samoa & the Cook Islands respectively.
Back Asi ruptured a tendon in his finger, while forward Makatoa tore a pectoral muscle. Both of that pair had surgery on those injuries, and will return to training in the New Year, but no return date has been set for either.
More positively for the Blue and Golds, a trio of their pack have freed up some space on the treatment table having all returned to training this week.
Half-back Mitchell Moses has recovered from a fractured eye socket, while Matt Doorey and Zac Cini – who each picked up a knock at the back end of the 2023 season, are back at full fitness now.