Dragons statement: Player breach

[Gardenia]

We can fill a team with mostly reserve graders . But if any of them are injured we would need to forfeit

Will be interesting if all of them are suspended for a long period of time. The club will be lucky to field a team in the meantime which could but unlikely force the club to forfeit which would therefore cause the nrl to break their tv obligations.

 

[Gareth67]

So very disappointed to wake up to this news that the players have yet again let down their fans , club and sponsors with such an idiotic display of ‘ jack you - I will do what I want ‘ .

Their attitude is totally wrong , no common sense and certainly no concern about their own health and wellbeing in the middle of a pandemic which has all but brought the country to its knees .

Stupid , stupid behavior coupled with an absolute disrespect to the team itself .

 

[Ghostface Killah]

Thank goodness the NSW Police Force are investigating. They are very good at investigations.

 

[RedVforVendetta]

So that makes it fine then ?

Yes assuming they are all from the bubble and are already in contact with each other. If Harvey Norman is considered an essential service that anyone can enter unmasked then so should a birthday party celebration amongst bubbled people.

 

[blacksafake]

Full List of Players under investigation are

- Matt Dufty
- Gerard Beale
- Zac Lomax
- Jack Bird
- Corey Norman
- Blake Lawrie
- Paul Vaughan
- Josh Kerr
- Kaide Ellis
- Josh McGuire
- Tyrell Fuimaono
- Daniel Alvaro

So worst case if everyone is suspended our potential team would be

1. Tyrell Sloan
2. Cody Ramsey
3. Max Feagai
4. Brayden Williame
5. Jordan Periera
6. Junior Amone
7. Ben Hunt
8. Jayden Hunt
9. Andrew McCullough
10. Poasa Fa’amusili
11. Billy Burns
12. Tariq Sims
13. Jack De Belin
BENCH
14. Adam Clune
15. Jackson Ford
16. ????
17. ?????
Only other players in the squad are
- Matt Feagai
- Billy Brittain
- Hayden Lomax ?? - I don’t know if his in the bubble

Other players in the bubble but are unavailable are
- Jayden Sullivan
- Mikaele Ravalawa
- Cam McInnes

and I expect the NRL will suspend them as a way to show how tough their stance is on this matter

So tough tough times ahead and I am left scratching my head into how we can field a team against Manly

I wonder if we are allowed to use players from outside of the Squad e.g Shalom

Looking at that team we’re in trouble.

 

[Gardenia]

Full List of Players under investigation are

- Matt Dufty
- Gerard Beale
- Zac Lomax
- Jack Bird
- Corey Norman
- Blake Lawrie
- Paul Vaughan
- Josh Kerr
- Kaide Ellis
- Josh McGuire
- Tyrell Fuimaono
- Daniel Alvaro

So worst case if everyone is suspended our potential team would be

1. Tyrell Sloan
2. Cody Ramsey
3. Max Feagai
4. Brayden Williame
5. Jordan Periera
6. Junior Amone
7. Ben Hunt
8. Jayden Hunt
9. Andrew McCullough
10. Poasa Fa’amusili
11. Billy Burns
12. Tariq Sims
13. Jack De Belin
BENCH
14. Adam Clune
15. Jackson Ford
16. ????
17. ?????
Only other players in the squad are
- Matt Feagai
- Billy Brittain
- Hayden Lomax ?? - I don’t know if his in the bubble

Other players in the bubble but are unavailable are
- Jayden Sullivan
- Mikaele Ravalawa
- Cam McInnes

and I expect the NRL will suspend them as a way to show how tough their stance is on this matter

So tough tough times ahead and I am left scratching my head into how we can field a team against Manly

I wonder if we are allowed to use players from outside of the Squad e.g Shalom

Not looking good . If we scrape a team up and anyone gets injured it’s game over

 

[ozbuck]

The worst part of this is how many of them were involved.

Now to see if from another point of view: If everyone who was at Vaughn's house was part of the "bubble" then the risk or infection was basically zero....that is assuming no one from outside of the bubble had been at vaughns house earlier in the day or two before. It would be like they were sitting in a dressing room having the gathering -- I'm talking from the risk of infection point of view.

Looking at it that way, Dugan attending an Eastern suburbs restaurant (those suburbs a known hotspot last week) is 1000x more risky in terms of infection and then coming back into the playing group and passing it on and causing an absolute mess.

I'm not defending the players. The level of stupidity to do what they did does not need to be said and they deserve all punishment. However, taking the emotions out of it from the moral side of things, looking at it logically; if the only people who were there were in the "bubble" then what they did was a very very very low risk thing in terms of covid-19.

But they broke the law (both government and NRL), and that's what this is really being judged on..... As it should may I add.

 

[Forbes Creek Dragons]

You will not lose points but by standing down all players for 14 days you are indirectly losing points anyway by losing those ganes

That is fine, we can lose them the good old fashioned way. It was about half the squad, and none of the supporters that did it. The remaining players deserve to be able to have a dig for the remainder of the players suspension.

 

[Forbes Creek Dragons]

Will be interesting if all of them are suspended for a long period of time. The club will be lucky to field a team in the meantime which could but unlikely force the club to forfeit which would therefore cause the nrl to break their tv obligations.

This makes me think that the NRL also will try to sweep this under the rug somewhat. I did notice he mentioned there were no players outside the bubble which is a bonus. Lets hope they don't dock us points but have lengthy suspensions. I would rather just lose the players and let the remaining rag tag team we have scrap it out to try and get some wins. I think it is safe to say our season is over regardless, really feel for hook.

 

[Gardenia]

remember coach Bennett attended a restaurant, breaching the rules last year
and the house where the party held, could have been contaminated with corona. thats why the stay at home covid rules
and Bondi coogee walk is allowed its exercise
you said it was only the players who attended,
reports are different to that

So they have broken the bubble oh dear

 

[Dragon David]

Well it will be just another excuse why they didn't make the 8 ...... Anyway might unearth a younger player coming through ......

It might be a blessing in disguise if the younger replacements fire. If nothing else, will be good for the experience and Hook can see what we could have moving forward in 2022 sooner rather than later.

 

[JamesRustle]

If they were all there for the purpose of compassionate needs, there is no problem.

Maybe most of the team is living at the Vaughan residence, paying rent, hope they drew up a share house lease agreement last night...

 

[getsmarty]

Dragons stars punished after house party drama

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys has slammed the 12 St George Illawarra Dragons players who were fined for breaching the state government’s stay-at-home order in Shellharbour on Saturday evening.

www.news.com.au

 

[Gardenia]

Vaughan does want out I reckon, his form over the past 2 weeks was far superior to prior games and he is playing to impress someone. He will get his wish after this but he may not have anywhere to go now.
Well thats shit of him if that’s true

 

[Willow]

The bloke is a parasite.

He's doing his job. Think about it, all he had to do was ask Abdo the question about stripping points. Then fans suddenly go into a spiral. If we don't react, he has nothing.

People can talk about the players providing the ammo, but it's the fans who are lining up to pay for the shots.

Tabloid media = B Ark candidates.

As for players stuffing up, I really don't have a big opnion about that. Regardless of whatever took place, it seems like a minor event when compared to spreaders crossing borders and government mismanagement.

 

[Forbes Creek Dragons]

It might be a blessing in disguise if the younger replacements fire. If nothing else, will be good for the experience and Hook can see what we could have moving forward in 2022 sooner rather than later.

Or they could be torn new ones each week and completely destroy their confidence.

 

[BIG RIG]

Triple M just reported that the NRL will more than likely go down extremely hard on these players with murmurs of 6 week bans plus by all reports they have to quarantine for 2 weeks aswel cause Vaughan’s wife was there

Welp Ladies and Gentlemen our season is over see you all next year

 

[Gardenia]

He said nothing is off the table.

Are the bulldogs losing points too?

 

[Simon]

I don’t really “get” the bubble anyway.

Player A lives with wife. Wife works at local pub. Wife is in contact with 100 people a day.
Comes home and spreads pub covid germs throughout Player A’s house.

What am I missing?

Not sure about this year, but last years players had to leave their home if their household contacts were deemed to work in ‘high risk’ roles.
I think these level 4 levels are the same as last years.

 

[Gardenia]

Triple M just reported that the NRL will more than likely go down extremely hard on these players with murmurs of 6 week bans plus by all reports they have to quarantine for 2 weeks aswel cause Vaughan’s wife was there

Welp Ladies and Gentlemen our season is over see you all next year

If any of our replacements get injured we can’t field a team and we will have to forfeit