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Interim Coach Dean Young

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I'm Hornby said:
Yes and a backline reshuffle would be nice, get rid of Tu, either Sloan to wing/Val to fullback or Buchanan to centre/Val to Wing.

Still not the perfect backline but from what I've seen of Tu, he was a dud signing.
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I'm a bit forgiving re Tu, we all least for the moment anyway.

Some simple errors in him which if you can get out of his game would make him a fairly good option as he is very capable of doing some good things.

I am of the opinion that he has probably received very little individual / personalised training and if Matt Cooper was to work with him for a few sessions he would improve significantly.

Our entire backline has looked clunky for obvious reasons maybe with an injection of speed and guile in the 7 jumper just maybe our backline finds some cohesion.

Very hard for outside backs to function efficiently especially running onto the ball at pace when all you have is a slow crabbing half.
 
Ronnie Dobbs

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Old Timer said:
I'm a bit forgiving re Tu, we all least for the moment anyway.

Some simple errors in him which if you can get out of his game would make him a fairly good option as he is very capable of doing some good things.

I am of the opinion that he has probably received very little individual / personalised training and if Matt Cooper was to work with him for a few sessions he would improve significantly.

Our entire backline has looked clunky for obvious reasons maybe with an injection of speed and guile in the 7 jumper just maybe our backline finds some cohesion.

Very hard for outside backs to function efficiently especially running onto the ball at pace when all you have is a slow crabbing half.
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Fair enough and good on you fir giving him
grace, but he’s not an NRL player.

He’s 28 and made his debut for us. Finau is way beater and he was stuck in cup last year too.

This is the shit that has to stop.
 
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Young is a great Dragons man but with the current roster he has an impossible task to get the club off the bottom of the ladder. His biggest problem is clearing out the roster because why would any of the old players in their twilight of their careers walk away from the very lucrative contracts they’re on. To add he will need to get rid of the wood duck players that no other team would want. Then he will need to compete with other clubs for quality players other teams also want and apart from Keon Koloamatangi we have failed to sign star players other clubs are chasing. I hope Keon will become the catalyst to attract some big names to the club.
Go the Dragons!
 
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I'm Hornby

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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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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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