RedV01
SGI NSW Cup
Bottom line is Flanno has been really bad so far. Worse than McGregor, worse than Griffin.
Round 26 v Manly
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RedV01
SGI NSW Cup
The injury excuse is wearing thin. Look at Souffs position on the table despite their very well documented injury problems.
Dragons4me
SGI Junior League
Yeah. Sums up our season doesn't it. This rule is a fucken blight on our game. This holding back or interfering with an attacking player scoring etc etc. You know that will disappear in the finals and certainly the GF don't you.
Mailroomsgi
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f*ck that was a tough watch, Manly are a poor side too with a bad forward pack
RedVHeartbeat
SGI NSW Cup
. But hey you cant criticize our coach here. Like hell you cant, I wont be stopped.
GCRV
SGI NSW Cup
He would have been dropped for sure if Sele, Couchmans, Egan weren't out for most of the season.
RedVHeartbeat
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He has ball skill, more than I can say for Sele, Egan and prob Ryan C.
Dragon David
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Just thinking, and a lot of you will laugh at me when I say that if Ben Hunt was playing with us this year, we would have finished 11th. Hahahaha!
RedV01
SGI NSW Cup
No way! 12th or 13th. Better than 15th.
Justadragon
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To Top things off , both our lower grades got blitzed by the dogs. Now then, there are no excuses, or at least no more than any other team has. So we just about finish this year so far with 2 hidings, and await Penrith. The Dragons fans are tired, we're tired of the same bullshit, no matter who the players are or who the coach is, we're tired. We have months now , AGAIN, of running around the recruitment train hoping for something to happen, another year gone, another year of frustration, another year of desperation. As far as positives go, hope our juniors that have been subjected to this shit show dont think that this is now the norm, who could blame them if they did. I wait for those famous words coming from our PC.
GCRV
SGI NSW Cup
It's been a hard season but iI think there are a number of positives to take from it. There are always positives but I think more this year than the last few years. Or last several years.
Justadragon
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When you get smacked by 40 pts 2 weeks in a row, those positives are looking pretty grim, there is always such a thing as pride and respect in the jumper, last week there was neither and today was definitely neither. Its fine to give out the accolades when they deserve it but its also fine to paste them after certain performances. That defense tonight was piss poor and embarrassing, no matter who you are, you put on a Dragons jumper with the big red V, then a certain level of commitment is expected, as a matter of fact its demanded. We are now 3rd last on the ladder heading towards a -150 pts differential. Until I see all these so called positives running around next year with us competing to a NRL level week in week out, there is no guarantee, I hope there is, but for the moment we are a shit show and we are embarrassing.
RedV01
SGI NSW Cup
I like glass half full people it's just I sometimes think they are deluding themselves. Call a spade a spade. Flanno has taken this team backward. I'm not in favour of dumping him and I understand though don't agree with the extension but DA has to put the foot down and Watsford needs to tell Flanno, DA makes the final decision regarding recruitment and retention.
Justadragon
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I think the game against the Sharks and Canberra was like a false dawn where people(myself included) thought we may have just started to turn a small corner and yet weeks later here we are, worse off than last year. It's a results driven sport and we are a shit show, work it out.
TheRev
SGI NSW Cup
The reason we had that good run against good opponents in recent months, is we cut out the dumb errors and started completing at 85-95%... and unfortunately we beat ourselves tonight like we were doing earlier in the year.. well.. that plus a few moments from guys like Koula.. what an absolute freak he is.. would pay him a mill to come be our fullback.. turns 23 next month.
Thought with 3 forward back it would be a real point of difference for us tonight, but Jack didnt seem quite himself, Sua didnt either (which tbf he has had a long injury), Jacob is doing really well.. but im not still quite sure he has the speed for 2nd row (offensively), I mean we easily could have won the game but need a lot of luck.. and Manly are very beatable... but just feels like the air went out last weekend, and not sure we will be able to get it back against a side like the panthers next week.
Cup feel like the air is out also, but tbf it could be a really different side that rolls out next week... and again the week after that.
Would love some news about recruitment soon.. dieing for a kill or 2.. something to spring some optimism about the year to come.
Thought with 3 forward back it would be a real point of difference for us tonight, but Jack didnt seem quite himself, Sua didnt either (which tbf he has had a long injury), Jacob is doing really well.. but im not still quite sure he has the speed for 2nd row (offensively), I mean we easily could have won the game but need a lot of luck.. and Manly are very beatable... but just feels like the air went out last weekend, and not sure we will be able to get it back against a side like the panthers next week.
Cup feel like the air is out also, but tbf it could be a really different side that rolls out next week... and again the week after that.
Would love some news about recruitment soon.. dieing for a kill or 2.. something to spring some optimism about the year to come.
Justadragon
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You know I see other teams that cant make finals play like they have some respect, Dolphins, Cowboys , Tigers and the Eels, wtf is going on at the Dragons ?
RedV01
SGI NSW Cup
It's true but your mistake is thinking these mistakes happen in a bubble. They more than often don't. Comes about as a result of the team this coach has mostly put together. Of today's team only Sloan and JDB weren't signed or extended under Flanno.
Dragon David
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Hey Justa. That small corner led to a dead end and like the years before, we ended up in that same cul-de-sac with nowhere to go. As far as I am concerned there are minimum positives when the results have been bad. Yes the experience gained by several juniors has been positive but overall when you lose, you just lose and by losing too many you end up down the bottom.
Time is ticking away and we are going into a new year soon. Will it be same old, same old or will the tide turn and that dead end becomes an open pasture on which our players reap the rewards that have been sown by the recruitment of Watsford, Anderson and the debuting of the young guys and the replacement of Kyle Flanno from the halves with a more astute player and our props are boosted by a couple of brutes.