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Interim Coach Dean Young

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redv13

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I'm Hornby said:
Dean was interviewed on NRL 360 tonight, he spoke well. One thing I liked hearing him say was that in the 2010 premiership winning team, the majority of the team were young players brought through our system.

Debuting Kade Reed this week is a great start and it would be great to see a few other younger players get introduced to first grade/given more game time/starting positions.

In this position we find ourselves in with many of Flanagan's signings wasting our salary cap, the best way to get out of this will be from promoting the talent within the club, failing that, look for young talent from other clubs to sign.

The scatter gun signing approach to signing players that all of our last coaches have adopted, needs to stop.
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I think the focus needs to be on 1 to 5.

Not sure what happens with Gutho if we pick up Drinkwater.

Holmes to one wing. Sami on the other.
Suli at centre. Try and pick up Averillo or Xerri??

Atkinson and Reed as the halves.
Liddle starts at 9. Cook/LKT at 14.

Forwards led by KK.
Couchman boys
Re sign Leilua and move up front??
Stewart
Egan
Halangahu
LPT
Tsougranis
Hutchinson
Webster into the 30??

Buchanan, Feagai.

Sloan?? Tu?? Fale??

Goodbye Lawrie, Guler, Kerr, Sele?? Tuipolotu, Kyle.
 
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matPORTS said:
Listening to Dean Young speak both in his afternoon media conference and also on NRL 360 - a little spark came back which hasn't been there in quite some time... some pride in the fact that I am a supporter of this great club.

Recent games I've attended, I have shown up in plain clothes not wearing team gear. This week, I will proudly don a 2010 jersey in support of Dean Young.

Yes, the nepotism factor is something the supporter base is going to take some time to get over. We may never get over it having been scarred many times before...

But there is one thing we can't begrudge Dean, and his Dad, on... they bleed for this club. They will go to their death beds shouting "oh when the saints...". They would be hurting more than anyone in the fact that we haven't won the last 11 competition games.

For me, the biggest circuit breaker in the last couple of days has been Ben Haran. This guy has clearly wielded way too much power around the joint for too long with no accountability. I would also say this alone has allowed Dean to make the decisions he so far has. No shackles.

I got goosebumps when Dean revealed that he personally went over to the Reed household to tell Kade that he'd be making his debut on ANZAC Day. Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall there last night. The Reed family no doubt watched Dean crash over the line during the 2010 GF. They would have watched the emotional embrace between he and his father. It would have been a bloody proud moment for them ! ...

... and this ANZAC Day could shape up to be the most significant win in the clubs recent history, if not since that great day in 2010.

The other thing that was revealed on NRL 360, surprisingly our forward pack leads the comp for running metres. I'm pretty sure, without looking back at it, that we've held leads in 8 of our 11 losses on the bounce. I don't think we are that far off.

Throw the form book out the window for this game !
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This is a great post - best fan post I've read here in ages, you've got me excited!

We have all been feeling so bad for so long about the team we support so it is great to hear a fellow fan say something optimistic. I know there was a lot of angst about Dean getting handed the coaching job but he couldn't have started off on a better footing than he has on day one. Of course the proof will be in the pudding so to speak and to be honest I'm expecting a bit of a reality check on Anzac Day but to hear him lay out a coherent plan for the future based around players who grew up supporting the club and wanting to play for the club was music to my ears.
I've been so sick of watching imports come in to the club over the last decade who couldn't give a toss about the clubs history and in reality were just here for the pay cheque. To imagine a team that will be mostly made up of Dragons juniors sprinkled in with some classy finishing touches from the outside like our 2010 squad is something I can't wait to see.
I suspect that the rest of this year is going to be a bit of a bumpy ride and we should be preparing ourselves for probably more downs than ups but this is the first time in more than a decade that a Dragons coach has shown genuine signs of leadership and signs of truly sweeping a broom through the place.

Thanks for revving me up matPORTS!
 
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Tomrum2

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I'm Hornby said:
Dean was interviewed on NRL 360 tonight, he spoke well. One thing I liked hearing him say was that in the 2010 premiership winning team, the majority of the team were young players brought through our system.

Debuting Kade Reed this week is a great start and it would be great to see a few other younger players get introduced to first grade/given more game time/starting positions.

In this position we find ourselves in with many of Flanagan's signings wasting our salary cap, the best way to get out of this will be from promoting the talent within the club, failing that, look for young talent from other clubs to sign.

The scatter gun signing approach to signing players that all of our last coaches have adopted, needs to stop.
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I agree, everybody wants a quick fix and that is the reason we are in this mess.

We've wasted money buying other teams rejects when we have this huge nursery around us. Why would you hang around when you've got no chance of a look in. Your only opportunity is another club.

Look at how many good juniors are coming through the grades and the ones we have in FG now they are quality players with great futures.

We need to be patient and develop them by introducing them to FG and build a team with these juniors just as Penrith have done with great success. Remember not every player is successful the first time they play FG some take a bit longer

With the right people around them I believe they can turn this around within a few years and have a very competitive team and make this proud club great again.
 
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Tomrum2 said:
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I agree, everybody wants a quick fix and that is the reason we are in this mess.

We've wasted money buying other teams rejects when we have this huge nursery around us. Why would you hang around when you've got no chance of a look in. Your only opportunity is another club.

Look at how many good juniors are coming through the grades and the ones we have in FG now they are quality players with great futures.

We need to be patient and develop them by introducing them to FG and build a team with these juniors just as Penrith have done with great success. Remember not every player is successful the first time they play FG some take a bit longer

With the right people around them I believe they can turn this around within a few years and have a very competitive team and make this proud club great again.
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Great post and I agree 1000%

If you look back at the 00s when we introduced many a promising junior and the majority were around for the 2010 premiership, at the time it was obvious we had such a great nursery, Penrith weren't even on the map then.

Since that time, as you've rightly said, it's always been about a quick fix, we disregard many of our juniors who are now doing good things elsewhere and we sign has beens to block pathways. It is definitely not a recipe for success, we need to reclaim the ground of being the best development club.
 
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Tomrum2

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I'm Hornby said:
Great post and I agree 1000%

If you look back at the 00s when we introduced many a promising junior and the majority were around for the 2010 premiership, at the time it was obvious we had such a great nursery, Penrith weren't even on the map then.

Since that time, as you've rightly said, it's always been about a quick fix, we disregard many of our juniors who are now doing good things elsewhere and we sign has beens to block pathways. It is definitely not a recipe for success, we need to reclaim the ground of being the best development club..
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I believe this is the rock bottom we had to have and hopefully the BOD have been humiliated enough to make the change needed by staying out of the football programs way. Maybe at the end of the day unwittingly Flano did us a favour.
Yes, we are lucky to have so much talent pushing through that can't be ignored any longer, I think hopefully good times ahead.
 
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I'm Hornby

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Tomrum2 said:
I believe this is the rock bottom we had to have and hopefully the BOD have been humiliated enough to make the change needed by staying out of the football programs way. Maybe at the end of the day unwittingly Flano did us a favour.
Yes, we are lucky to have so much talent pushing through that can't be ignored any longer, I think hopefully good times ahead.
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Yes I agree.

The position we're in now with Haran sacked/a new GM of football and a new school coach who knows the inner workings of the club, was the position we could've been in, had we appointed Ryles before Flanagan.

Flanagan thought (wrongly) he could carry the world on his shoulders and fix the entire club by himself. The BOD were happy as they thought they had their yes man in charge, it appeased most members and supporters for a few more years and meant that they didn't need to make any other changes or rock the boat. It was a marriage of convenience.

Us as fans, endured three more years of pain to arrive at this point that we were so close to getting to, three years ago.

Hopefully the only way is up from here, mate.
 
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All I hope for this game is that we go at the Chooks. Let them know they are in a game. Be competitive - by this I mean compete in every play, in attack & defence, in scramble and on yo loos balls.
And for heavens sake Play To The Whistle.
 
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RedVee said:
All I hope for this game is that we go at the Chooks. Let them know they are in a game. Be competitive - by this I mean compete in every play, in attack & defence, in scramble and on yo loos balls.
And for heavens sake Play To The Whistle.
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Yep show some commitment, good attitude and enterprise. Put bodies on the line and be gutsy.

If the Chooks win, make them work hard for it, not like the past few Anzac Day games where we have made them to look like the Harland Globe Trotters!
 
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Captain Damien Cook is among the list of players to have had the rug pulled from under him after he was reportedly close to agreeing to an extension to remain with the Red V, Code Sports reported.

Now all bets are off.

Once a highly-touted recruit, Luciano Leilua is among the group that don’t have a contract for 2027.

Blake Lawrie, Emre Guler, Hame Sele, Christian Tuipulotu, Nathan Lawson and Tyrell Sloan are the other players who have been given the cold shoulder.

 
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