Recruitment and Retention for 2026

[Justadragon]

Yep its sort of how us fans think.. i.e. what I saw with my eyes last weekend week will happen every week from now on.. and thats why footy tipping comps are so hard.. because things never say the same...

We spoke about this next 4 week period a while back.. these 4 games are as soft as games can get in 2026...but every one of these sides on their day could run riot.... Mailroom I think said we needed to win 3 or 4 of them.. for me.. the minimum I would be OK with is to win 2 of them (which would put us @ 2 from 6, 1 short of a 50% win ratio)... anything less than that and we are in some real strife cause there are not many soft games in this comp... it will just get harder to pull off wins from there.

If we are 0 from 6, blow the joint up.

OK if we go 0 - 3 after this weekend, which I hope we dont, then we have Titans away, that could be anything, NQ at home that could be anything and Manly at home, that could be anything.
We are desperate and we are playing desperate sides, 2 of them with their coach's jobs on the line. Christ it used to be our season was done and dusted a few weeks from finals, then it was done and dusted mid season, now we may face the reality of the first 6 RD's being zip, surely not, please no. Lets just get a win this weekend and put all this nonsense to bed !!!

 

[puff]

Did you have an issue JBD playing for us?

Was he not acquitted?

 

[Xuiz]

Was he not acquitted?

Not for his actions off the field though

 

[Dragons Chris]

Not for his actions off the field though

Charges were dropped. Doesn't that = aquitted?

 

[Xuiz]

Charges were dropped. Doesn't that = aquitted?

Misread it haha

 

[RufusRex]

Charges were dropped. Doesn't that = aquitted?

nope ... aquitted means declared not guilty. That part never happened for all charges.
The prosecution after 2 x Hung juries decided it wasnt worth going to trial a 3rd time.
We know that some jurors across the two trials believed he was guilty and some jurors believed he was not guilty.
A sordid mess

 

[Dragon David]

Dragons players watch on in concern as a teammate is rushed to the hospital

Fears for Dragons forward after training drill ends with neck injury

www.illawarramercury.com.au

Hope it's not serious

Hey St George Tragic. I've posted this in the Injury and Suspension Update 2026 Thread. This Thread is for Recruitment and Retrenchment for 2026. Eric and Jo have been trying to get us to post things in the right Threads. Sorry to bring this to your attention.

 

[Dragons Chris]

nope ... aquitted means declared not guilty. That part never happened for all charges.
The prosecution after 2 x Hung juries decided it wasnt worth going to trial a 3rd time.
We know that some jurors across the two trials believed he was guilty and some jurors believed he was not guilty.
A sordid mess

Charges dropped = not guilty. Unless the presumption of innocence has been secretly repealed.

 

[RufusRex]

"declared" the key word not "presumed" ... just a technicality on the word rather than guity vs not guilty.
Also by not going to trial the prosecution reserves the right to take it to trial if other evidence were uncovered.
So technically not guilty via presumption of innocent but not acquitted as aquittal removes the ability to go to trial again etc ...