2025 Pre-Season Challenge - Trials

[st george tragic]

Rava is a player who gets worse with experience.
How hard is it to mark your man? Makes you want to tear your hair out.

Flannos no fool rava was a fill in for a game that doesn't matter. He won't be seeing any first grade this year

 

[Gareth67]

Pre-season game or not , who gives a damn , it was just greeeat to see our boys take the smugness out of the Bondi jet - set !

Still it was a good overall performance from the team , more so when taking into account that it was the first occasion they have played together .

Well done lads and to the coaches for the effort they have all put in over the off season !

 

[R&WTILLIDIE]

Flannos no fool rava was a fill in for a game that doesn't matter. He won't be seeing any first grade this year

Yes mate. On that form he’d struggle to make reserve grade.

 

[getsmarty]

Match Highlights: Pre-Season Challenge v Roosters | Dragons

The St George Illawarra Dragons and the Sydney Roosters face off in the Week 2 of the 2025 Witzer Pre-Season Challenge

www.dragons.com.au

 

[getsmarty]

Dragons show promise in Kogarah trial victory

The Dragons opened their 2025 Pre-Season Challenge campaign with a 26-8 win over the Sydney Roosters at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium.

www.dragons.com.au

 

[possm]

Does anyone else get a Nightingale-esque sense about Lawson???

I do believe Lawson will occupy our left-wing spot, and Sloan will occupy the right-wing spot. I only wish Lawson was given some clean passes out wide. I just wanted to see how he performed running down the sideline.

Rumble impressed me and so did Emire our new prop. Now we just need to land one more first-grade prop and off-load the Molo brothers. Rava and Lawrie should be moved on as well.

 

[getsmarty]

Dragons see off Roosters in NRL trial win

Kyle Flanagan has helped lead St George Illawarra to a 26-8 NRL trial win over the Sydney Roosters.

au.news.yahoo.com

 

[getsmarty]

‘Terrific’ Dragons down Roosters as recruit’s shine and Sevens convert stuns with ‘heads up’ effort

‘Terrific’ Dragons down Roosters as recruit’s shine and Sevens convert stuns with ‘heads up’ effort

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[matPORTS]

Cautiously optimistic. Let's move onto next week and hopefully see more improvement.

It was great to see Gutho with hands on the footy in the opposing 20m, like a second #6 / third receiver. Haven't seen much of that since Darius Boyd (and to a lesser extent Dugan). This will help both halves who were also impressive in there own right. There was also a play coming out of our red zone where he bought both wingers into the play who then subsequently linked up, which got us out of some early trouble.

Suli looks jacked. He is in for a big year. Just needs to calm down and not be too erratic.
A lot of depth in the backs. Lawson needs a spot. Val Holmes silky skills (Lomax who).

Feel like we can do something with the troops we have at our disposal in the forwards. Albeit it will be some time before we are fully settled in terms of the props rotation.

Very solid Rumble, Glover, Egan, LPT, Reid... the senior players will be giving them all a huge pat on the back for not taking the foot off the gas when the team was rotated.

Defence has had a lot of work done and it's showing.

Hopefully we evolve on a positive trajectory all season long.

 

[True_Believer]

Rumble reminds me a little of Ramsey. Not flashy, but looks like he has a good footy head just wants to play the game. I reckon he'll be a good player in the future.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Very promising with Lidds still to come in.

Lawson is going to be a star.

Not a bad player out there apart from Rava.

 

[getsmarty]

St George Illawarra Dragons on Instagram: "A successful first outing for @nathannlawson. ☺️"

778 likes, 8 comments - nrl_dragons on February 16, 2025: "A successful first outing for @nathannlawson. ☺️".

www.instagram.com

 

[True_Believer]

St George Illawarra Dragons on Instagram: "A successful first outing for @nathannlawson. ☺️"

778 likes, 8 comments - nrl_dragons on February 16, 2025: "A successful first outing for @nathannlawson. ☺️".

www.instagram.com

Can't be sure, but I think he loved it.

Also, did he almost drop the F bomb there?

 

[KingFlanno7]

Can't be sure, but I think he loved it.

Also, did he almost drop the F bomb there?

Sure fn did

 

[NRLMad]

Lawson was awesome in defence. He made a mistake or 2 but offers much more than Faegai. Faegai tried hard but Lawson was good with very limited attaching options

 

[Spazer]

Lawson looked a lot smaller than he did in the highlights vid, but in saying that he played very well. I also thought Sione had some strong hitups. CT will definitely be on the left wing, the other spot is up for grabs between sloan, sione and lawson.

 

[Auntie.Gerald]

Hamish Stewart has that bit of Craig Fitzgibbon about him

surprisingly strong yet lanky and tall

his wrestle was very good in defence

 

[hewi]

I’m loving Lawson but isn’t he on the development list and so can’t play first grade till later in the year

 

[sammymills]

execution a bit clunky as was to be expected. That will be fixed. What really impressed me was our goal line defence across the 80min, and controlling the game. Guler looked good. Couchman looked good and has an offload in him.

 

[Hound of Dracula]

Unabashed Kyle fan who reckons he will have a stella year out from under the shadows of Voldemort "He who shall not be named"

I couldn't really see the extra 10 kilos?