Dragons Predicted Wooden Spooners

[Old Kogarah Boy 1]

Don't know if l buy into the line of thought that we don't have the cattle, I'm thinking more along the lines that an average coach won't do any good with a team of stars but a decent coach, one that the team will play for, will over achieved and become a star team.

 

[BrissyRedV]

average coach

You sir, are too kind.

 

[Gareth67]

[QUOTE="Old Kogarah Boy 1, post: 11999971, member: 47524one that the team will play for.[/QUOTE]

You have pretty much summed it up OKB1 - " one that the team will play for "
That coach will inspire his players to greater efforts , be admired as one who can turn the teams fortunes around .

A rare trait these days , only a few clubs have those coaches , the others , they are at the very least capable and command respect from their players .

We here at the Dragons are in limbo and shall continue to be so , until our own ' Maestro'
exits the club .

 

[Qdf]

Geez a depressing thread.

When was the last time the dragons even got the wooden spoon?

I would take a guess it was in the 1930s?

I recall my dad saying they were one of the lowest (if not the lowest) of the clubs and they certainly never got the spoon while he was involved in the club and his involvement went back to the early 1940's. I know they have never got the spoon while I have been a supporter and I also go back aways....

Dragons wooden spoons 1922,1926 & 1938.

 

[Walpole]

How is it that a team with four current internationals - Dugan, Frizell, Widdop, Nightingale - (five if you want to include Scotland's Euan Aitken), seasoned first graders like Sims, Thompson, DeBelin and some of the best young talent in the game is now the favourite for the wooden spoon?

If Peter Doust and Paul McGregor were in any other business they would have been held accountable long ago and be trying to explain to potential new employers how they took a famous sporting brand and systematically ran it into the ground. We have a captain without any fire or passion for the team, a coach who simply does not have (and will never have) the skills to get the best out of his players and a CEO who must know, deep down, that with his horrendous track record no other sporting body would ever employ him in a position of responsibility. It's embarrassing.

 

[umina panther]

Shit forwards, shit backs, shit halves, shit juniors and shit fans. Enjoy the spoon @God-King Dean

 

[SBD82]

Shit forwards, shit backs, shit halves, shit juniors and shit fans. Enjoy the spoon @God-King Dean

Yeah. It would really suck if we won the spoon. I reckon it would be the worst feeling.

What's it like?

 

[Eatons Hill Dragon]

Shit forwards, shit backs, shit halves, shit juniors and shit fans. Enjoy the spoon @God-King Dean

P!ss off, shit head.

 

[FlameThrower]

...oh look another negative thread about the same thing....
How about we hold off burning jerseys until at least 4 -5 games into the actual season..

 

[dragonssamy61]

Don't know if l buy into the line of thought that we don't have the cattle, I'm thinking more along the lines that an average coach won't do any good with a team of stars but a decent coach, one that the team will play for, will over achieved and become a star team.

I agree.
Imagine what a coach like bellyake would do with this team.

 

[dragonssamy61]

Shit forwards, shit backs, shit halves, shit juniors and shit fans. Enjoy the spoon @God-King Dean

Piss off umina pussy cat.

 

[Sheridan Stand]

Dragons wooden spoons 1922,1926 & 1938.

Thanks Q

That was a long long time ago and just as we were joining the NSWRL.

We are becoming the modern day North Sydney and......we all know what happened to them.

 

[Sheridan Stand]

...oh look another negative thread about the same thing....
How about we hold off burning jerseys until at least 4 -5 games into the actual season..

Flame thrower

It's not about the next 5 games - it is about how far the club has fallen and how we are leaderless from the Board down.

I worry far more about whether we will even exist in the long term than if 2017 is a write off - I can handle a bad year but cmon - this will be the 7th in a row.

 

[Belta]

I think with Mann, Nona, field around the halves, Dufty to play fullback when he returns mose to have an impact from mid season, we will slip into the top 8, at least that's what I told my therapist

 

[Old Timer]

Shit forwards, shit backs, shit halves, shit juniors and shit fans. Enjoy the spoon @God-King Dean

Look in the mirror shit head.

 

[SGMax]

Since77 said:
[/QUOTE] Way too much is made of the GI Field goal attempt - apart from the comedy value of it. People go on like it cost Souths the game - where it was actually their final play of the game, they were behind on the scoreboard and they had to score a try off that play to win. While possible, its highly unlikely they would have scored a try off that play. To say we were lucky to win that game because GI went for a field goal is stretching it.

And while we got off the hook in the Canberra game with an intercept, again people forget we were ahead most of that game as well. So were we gifted that game or had we played JUST well enough so that scores were even at full time and we jagged an intercept?

Don't get me wrong, we were abysmal last year - the most abysmal I've ever seen us and I am actually astounded teams finished below us on the ladder - but every team in the NRL jags lucky wins and also loses games due to an unlucky error near the end of the game. Both of last years grand finalists had lucky escapes against Canberra in the semi finals - particularly Melbourne.[/QUOTE]


Totally agree, and I'm fed up with people bringing up the games in Origin time against the Cowboys and Storm.
The Origin period lasts almost 2 months and you would think the dragons were the only team that got to play these two teams in that time.
These clubs are taking every advantage possible with filling their playing roster "under" the cap and are full of representative players.
The Dragons have to play with a weakened roster the whole year round.

Not making excuses for the Dragons, but the salary cap and third party rules need to be fixed to ensure that the talent is more fairly distributed.

 

[inside_pass]

The management of this club is why we are where we are.Until that is fixed we will continue to fail and contend for the bottom four.
Big signings like Ben Hunt will win us a few more games but it won't be enough and is only so Doust and co. can try and save their asses and give themselves a bit more breathing room.
The club is in a massive hole that current management have put us in and they are too inept and useless to dig us out!

 

[Old Timer]

Max
"Not making excuses for the Dragons, but the salary cap and third party rules need to be fixed to ensure that the talent is more fairly distributed."

Even on a fair playing field "talent" would be waisted within our current systems.
It is very depressing watching good quality players become average.

We keep making excuses of "why it is so" rather than finding constructive ways to change our philosophy and methodology to achieve better outcomes which is what pro-active management is all about.

 

[Lethal25]

Since77 said:

I applaud your half glass full view here but the club has had 5 years to sort themselves out and it just hasn't happened. No value IMO being fed up about people pointing to particular games and saying they were lucky or unlucky, the holistic view is they're a benign attacking laughing stock of the league.

 

[God-King Dean]

Piss off umina pussy cat.

Boom!

You just got rekt @umina panther !