Overview

• Dylan Brown scored the opening try in his 142nd and final Parramatta game before joining Newcastle on a reported 10-year, multimillion-dollar contract.
• Mitchell Moses completed a first-half hat-trick and Josh Addo-Carr finished with three tries as Parramatta surged to a 34-4 halftime lead at CommBank Stadium.
• Newcastle recorded 58 missed tackles and lost Jack Cogger and Fletcher Hunt to failed head injury assessments, exposing season-long defensive frailties.
• The defeat confirmed the Knights’ first wooden spoon since 2017 and closed Adam O’Brien’s tenure, which he had already announced would end two years early.
• Parramatta logged their 10th win under rookie coach Jason Ryles to finish 11th, while Brown later said he had no regrets about committing to Newcastle despite the club’s last-place finish.