About half-an-hour into a recent members’ forum, attended by 100 card-carrying Parramatta NRL fans, talk briefly turned to the biggest rugby league story of the summer, the plight of Zachary John Lomax.

“Obviously a very topical topic,” Eels chairman Matthew Beach told those assembled at the club’s Kellyville headquarters in western Sydney after being handed the microphone.

Zac Lomax celebrates a try for Parramatta.Credit: Getty Images

“I can’t say too much because it’s before the courts, but I........

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