Why are the St. George-Illawarra Dragons chokers?

[Life's Good]

Appears his is bigger than yours LG

Salary cap?

 

[Meapro Ham]

Worst late season collapse that I can remember.

In terms of how good they were early on and how bad they are now I would have to agree.

I went to the Anzac Day game, they were awesome. They didn’t get a lot of possession but it didn’t bother them, their defence was rock solid and on the few occasions they got good field position they scored and won easily.

The following week they towelled up the storm and were competition favourites.

Since then it’s been steadily downhill and they’re now pretty much a rabble.

I get that they are probably burnt out and carrying injuries but I still don’t understand how they can detoriate to that level. Once their early season aura starts to wear off they just seem to lose all confidence.

 

[Mick Benson]

Worst late season collapse that I can remember.

This is worse than last year IMO. Last year I didn't think the Dragons were really contenders even when they were winning early. This year I thought they were the real deal.

 

[Meapro Ham]

So what happens to McGregor? He has another year on his contract right?

But what’s the point of another year of the same? I think he and the team are so scarred by the annual slide that it’s inevitable now. As soon as they start to lose a few games they start to think “look out here we go again” and lose all confidence and there’s no way to avoid it.

They really need a change and a fresh start.

 

[Tommy Smith]

How about the Dragons fan burning the Red V jersey?

Talk about over the top. That sort of behaviour is normally reserved for the streets of Lahore when Inzy runs out Shahid Afridi for 0.

What a feral, disrespectful set of fans!

 

[carcharias]

Did Aitken??? ( centre) do his hammy yesterday?
I saw him grabbing it and laying on the ground as some dogs player cruised past him on the way to the try line.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Did Aitken??? ( centre) do his hammy yesterday?
I saw him grabbing it and laying on the ground as some dogs player cruised past him on the way to the try line.

Yep, Aitken injured his hamstring and had to come off. That's why Dufty was sent on as early in the game as he was.

 

[carcharias]

Yep, Aitken injured his hamstring and had to come off. That's why Dufty was sent on as early in the game as he was.

Geezuz
When it hits the fan it really splatters everywhere.

 

[_Johnsy]

They certainly do manage to fall off a cliff year after year with McGregor.

Rounds 1 to 9 they were 8 from 9 with a +142 points differential
Since then they've been 7 from 15 with a -105 differential

Seems pretty obvious McGregor just puts too much emphasis on starting the season strongly. Its the same thing every year with him. They get off to a flyer by playing with more intensity than everyone else but inevitably they can't maintain it and the wheels start to fall off after about 10 rounds.

This is what I don’t get.Brilliant early season form, you would expect professional athletes to improve with the same structures & combinations in place over the remainder of they year. For the last 3 years our side has worsened with said structures over the back end of the regular competition. It honestly defies logic.

 

[Cogburn]

How does the maths work when you expand the search to include all finals matches rather than Grand Finals?

I reckon we're dead set f**king even tbh

But as we have 19 Minor Premierships and 13 Premierships whilst you have a mere 16 Minor Premierships to your 16 Premierships, I reckon our record of shitting our dacks historically can't be touched. Forever under our dung heap!

But then I look at your 29 Grand Final appearances to your 16 Premierships and I realise you've shat your dacks on the big day 13 times. That's a big day shit yerself rate of 45%
Whereas the Roosters have had 22 Grand Final appearances for 13 Premierships, so our tally of 9 big day failures means we have a shit yerself rate of 41%, so we are under your dung heap

So in summary, we should be growing roses.

Mate get it right. St George Illawarra Sox have 1 premiership.

 

[Hutty1986]

Mate get it right. St George Illawarra Sox have 1 premiership.

And your tears in that grand final thread sustain me to this very day

 

[Cogburn]

And your tears in that grand final thread sustain me to this very day

No tears from me. The Roosters were rubbish in 2010.

 

[blaza88z]

It's hard to imagine they've faded again just because of how good they were early in the season, they've fallen off in past seasons but this year they seemingly had as good a side as there is going around

Mary will be doing well to keep his job next season

 

[King hit]

It’s their thing

 

[Spade]

Ben Hunt getting selected in origin has killed there season

 

[Joeboy]

Dufty is the biggest ball hog in the comp, runs across field and cramps everyone.

Guy murders overlaps on the reg.

 

[ragzouken]

Forwards no longer making any meters no one is making post contact metres or tackle breaks, really shines the light on that backline no one does the hard yards coming out of trouble, nightingale was the only one who could now he is dead.

 

[AJB1102]

Yeah...they buried that tag 8 years ago but keep trying bottomfeeders

There has been an exhumation.

 

[zombiebloodlust]

It's happened several times now over a few years and the key common ingredient seems to be the coach.

You know, the Dragons were chokers when McGregor was an assistant coach too. Come to think of it, we were kinda chokers when he was playing as well. In fact - I believe the only period we didn't choke was when Uncle Wayne finally booted the loser from the club entirely. Hmm... coincidence?

 

[Lambretta]

Mate get it right. St George Illawarra Sox have 1 premiership.

Nah, 16
If anyone thinks that St George aren't St George needs their heads read (I know people like to wind up Dragons fans but meh) Yes they merged, but that merger was nothing more than an expansion of St George

Same colours, same badge, same people, same fans.