Kieran Foran once stepped away from league a broken man. Now he has to fix a broken club

March 30, 2026 — 4:33am

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It’s almost 10 years to the day.

Kieran Foran and his Parramatta teammates were doing an hour-long media session where all members of the NRL squad were available for interviews.

The sessions are mandatory for all clubs and take place pre-season, mid-season and on the eve of finals.

They’re an opportunity for television, newspaper and radio journalists to do one-on-one interviews. They are a kind of organised chaos.

At the Eels’ temporary training base on the site of the old Parramatta livestock sale yards in July 2016, Foran was hot property. He had left Manly, where he played in the 2011 premiership win, and joined the Eels as captain.

It’s a big job at a big club. While sitting with my colleague Danny Weidler from Nine News as the cameraman set up the lighting, the three of us made small talk and cracked a few jokes.

Foran was there, but he wasn’t there. He was polite, smiled and tried to be engaged in what was happening, but he looked pained. He was fidgety, couldn’t concentrate and looked like he wanted to........

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