Dave03
SGI NSW Cup
Who can find us some outside backs?
Pathways Players
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jodragon40
Staff
Mug Fan this is what was said in relation to pathways. Do you agreeRED V MEMBERS FORUM SUMMARY
Red V Members Forum: Club leaders h
St George Illawarra Dragons members were given the opportunity to hear directly from club leaders at the latest Red V Members Forum, with Chairman Andrew Lancaster, CEO Tim Watsford, Interim Head Coach Dean Young and COO Ben Creagh answering questions on the club’s football program, recruitment, pathways, governance, facilities and long-term direction.
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RED V MEMBERS FORUM SUMMARY
Red V Members Forum: Club leaders hear directly from
Pathways and local talent
A major theme of the night was the importance of retaining and developing elite juniors from across the St George, Illawarra and Group 7 regions.
The club has invested further in its pathways and academy systems, with more resources now dedicated to coaching, strength and conditioning, wellbeing and player development.
While the club acknowledged it would not be able to keep every player, it said the goal was to provide young players with strong coaching, clear development plans and a genuine pathway into the NRL and NRLW programs.
“Five or six years ago, we were pretty under-resourced in the Academy or Pathways area, but we're a lot better resourced now,” Creagh said.
“Pathways is a combination of our Under 19's and Under 17's teams at both St George and Illawarra, and we directly employ the coaches of both those teams, so we’ve got a bit of control over how our kids are coached and how they play week to week, which essentially feeds down from the NRL team.
“That's how you get kids in our pathway developing to be ready for NRL or NRLW at 18, 19, 20. Have good coaches in place, good resources, managers, physios and strength conditioners to ensure our kids are ready and are establishing good habits early.
“The most successful players out there, have good habits in the gym, on the field, at home, when they're away from footy, and being able to educate the players in these areas from a Dragons point of view, with Dragons resources, is really important.”
Mug Fan
SGI NSW Cup
Strongly disagree with about 90% of that.
Just because they have increased spending and improved Pathways it doesn’t mean much when we have really only gone from piss poor to poor.
Just because they have increased spending and improved Pathways it doesn’t mean much when we have really only gone from piss poor to poor.
jodragon40
Staff
Cheers just thought you would like to know what they were spinning to the members
Mug Fan
SGI NSW Cup
Hunter Berghuis has signed a 2 year pathways deal after a good Harold Matts season.
RufusRex
SGI Jersey Flegg
Ugh tartak ..: each step forward it’s one back
TheRev
SGI NSW Cup
Berghuis had a rly strong season, didn't recognise him without the white headgear which I would sometimes get confused with Ollie... hard to predict the future but glad he is staying around!
AyiosYiorgos
SGI NSW Cup
Is he playing for StGeorge Dragons?
BekB
SGI Junior League
Steelers
TheRev
SGI NSW Cup
that had me thinking also... but yeah assume hes staying in the Steelers system but its the dragons club that does the pathways contracts...... assume he will do preseasons with the other young pathways kids? But its only 2yrs... so he will still be in that Steelers system in 2 years time...