Recruitment and Retention for 2026

[Justadragon]

Tino will stay put is my take. Problem is this club is so on the nose that even if we offered him a cool million, another club would offer the same and he'd accept them. I am disgusted that we have fallen so low and can only blame poor management at the top. Oh for another Frank Facer type administrator to run this once great club.

I am willing to give this new management a go RVH they seem to be proactive in the juniors field to start off with. Its the board and how they can get over the top of them, lets hope so anyway. The crowd numbers should be a good indicator to the board that things need to change.

 

[RedVHeartbeat]

I am willing to give this new management a go RVH they seem to be proactive in the juniors field to start off with.

Precisely what I am saying Jd, that our Pathways recruiters have been very proactive in giving the club promising players on which to build our future. But a proviso Jd these kids will have to be developed and nurtured correctly for this to happen. Before Loko and Jake came along, our recent history of doing this had not been all that flash. Mate we are a club with a future not a present.

 

[Edward]

I am willing to give this new management a go RVH they seem to be proactive in the juniors field to start off with. Its the board and how they can get over the top of them, lets hope so anyway. The crowd numbers should be a good indicator to the board that things need to change.

It's early but really seems the new management, including DA, are being much more methodical. For a few years now it looked like the coach, Price, Mary, Hook, Flanno, was just throwing the hat in the ring for any player that became available not even caring about form or if the club needed anyone in that position.

 

[Dragon David]

It's early but really seems the new management, including DA, are being much more methodical. For a few years now it looked like the coach, Price, Mary, Hook, Flanno, was just throwing the hat in the ring for any player that became available not even caring about form or if the club needed anyone in that position.

In Daniel Anderson we trust is what we have and he has the wisdom of doing what is best for the Club. When a couple of years have passed, those still around and I hope that it will be all of us, will see the sweet fruits of success. We can expect lots of positives come about once the Bruce Gordon Centre is up and running. It will bring about improved attitudes and confidence through the pathways of development in both mens' and womens' grades of footy and this will result in much better outcomes of games.

 

[RedVHeartbeat]

In Daniel Anderson we trust is what we have and he has the wisdom of doing what is best for the Club. When a couple of years have passed, those still around and I hope that it will be all of us, will see the sweet fruits of success. We can expect lots of positives come about once the Bruce Gordon Centre is up and running. It will bring about improved attitudes and confidence through the pathways of development in both mens' and womens' grades of footy and this will result in much better outcomes of games.

Lets hope so DD. Gotta have the raw material first before you can become an elite sports man/woman.

 

[Dragon David]

Lets hope so DD. Gotta have the raw material first before you can become an elite sports man/woman.

Yes we do need to have the raw material before they can be elite. I am sure that we will have them RVH. We will prove to all our critics how great we are in the next few years.

 

[George Sancti]

It is sadly looking that way RVH. We have no chance of getting any marquee half. Top shelf players and their agents only use us as a bargaining tool when negotiating with other clubs they prefer to be signed by. We have to create our own marquees from our nursery of kids. They will become our future and hopefully love to be a Dragon for years.

I'm not fussed about guys like Tino, Pezet, Metcalf, Nelson. A second tier external prop with less to pay for but willing to help us out is what I want.

If we had a Frank Facer type for the past decade or so and up to including now, we would not be in this shit which is becoming very smelly to the nose to players and their agents. The real problem is that joint venture/merged clubs so far have not been successful - that is, they have not dominated the games week in and out since being combined as one and that includes the Wests Tigers and the Northern Eagles. Manly became the Sea Eagles and now the North Sydney Bears the Perth Bears. We might have to change our logo to be the South Coast Dragons or what not??

I agree 100% Dave with your comment regarding the late great Frank Facer. I was just thinking of some of the outstanding up and commers he identified and brough to the club including the immortal Johnny Raper. Regarding our logo, I don't believe the logo has been the cause of our decline as a successful club. The cause has been the lack of competence of the administrators behind the logo.

 

[Dragon David]

I agree 100% Dave with your comment regarding the late great Frank Facer. I was just thinking of some of the outstanding up and commers he identified and brough to the club including the immortal Johnny Raper. Regarding our logo, I don't believe the logo has been the cause of our decline as a successful club. The cause has been the lack of competence of the administrators behind the logo.

Agreed George. The incompetence of the Dragons administrators has been a big factor in our decline which many of us have expressed.

 

[Ryan]

Lets hope so DD. Gotta have the raw material first before you can become an elite sports man/woman.

We've had plenty of that all the way through this horror decade but the best of them have mostly packed their bags and joined other clubs.

Lets hope that is over now. I don't know what happened with Latu. Why he was so off the club he didn't even want to hear an offer. But other than that, doing a good job with both Couchmans, Halangahu, LPT, Egan, Tsugranis, LKT all signed. Hopefully Hamism Stewart gets done very soon.