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I'll say it again despite how unpopular it is. This is all the more reason to move everything to Wollongong, including playing all our home games there. The St.George area now has very little interest in rugby league, and moving the team to Wollongong on a permanent basis will give the locals a team they can resonate with more as their fully local team. Kids in the area will grow up to support the Dragons rather than looking elsewhere because the Dragons currently have no real clear identity.
No thanks, it can stay split and the kids of Wollongong have a team, cant see another NRL team in Wollongong bar the Dragons, kid support a winning team, it starts and ends with us winning kids get influenced by teams winning thats who they support, unless families brainwash them to support the Dragons..
Respectfully, can I ask what beneficiary reason, apart from nostalgia and St.George bias, does playing games out of Kogarah provide. No interest in the area, far lower crowd attendance, inability to get stadium upgrades there (and at Wollongong too because we can’t get a better stadium if we’re only going to play 6 games there), no juniors from st.George so young talent would rather play in Wollongong, all staff are being moved to Wollongong when COE is built, so no one will be running the club out of Kogarah and a clear identity as ONE club rather than two are all reasons I can think of to just play out of Wollongong. Everything is moving to Wollongong, and that’s where we’re seemingly heading.
Yep, you’re right. Things have been slowly moving down there over the last decade and it’s no surprise that we’re going like busted asses over that time period
For me a good depth prop who is still very young. He is not the prop I have been calling for with the following props at the club ahead of him.
Nick Lui-Toso
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I think you will find Kerr has been released to the warriors a year early.
For me, it should go the other way. We need to work very hard to re-establish ourselves in the St George District. Illawarra should be there for part of our pathway system and for our feeder club. Let them wear the scarlet number and be called Illawarra Dragons at the NSW Cup level. Under this, they could play all of their home games at the gong.
What a dickhead.
It’s not just kids plenty of adults jump ship then when there team starts winning they are back it’s not just our club either
I'd like to go on record here and say that I never used brainwashing to make my daughter a Dragons supporter. Bribery yes, brainwashing no.
Well no, that's a lazy argument. The St.George bias is very clear, and fair enough, there's so much passion in the traditional St.George fanbase. But realistically, the football department is being run in two seperate places 1.5 hours from each other and I'd argue that the St.George side running out of Kogarah are actually causing bigger issues than the Illawarra side currently. It is them who cannot accept the one club mentality, and it's hurting us. It will be much better when everyone moves down to wollongong. Until that happens, the club remains divided, so our shit performance has nothing to do with us "slowly moving down [to wollongong]". We won a premiership whilst slowly moving down there, poor performance is unrelated and comes down to division in the ranks.
Yep, worked for my son and one of my daughters too! My other daughter must have had too much personal integrity to succumb.
I agree with you Getsmarty, I’m sick and tried of the shit show that is the Dragons football club, it’s not one club it is 2. Paul Smith goes only 50% why not buy the whole club and make it your own like the Kings, that’s what I don’t get, don’t whinge that’s it’s a dumpster fire. If you put your hand up to spend 11.5 mill, why not take it all, I don’t get it. Jeez just buy the Dragons and have Win Corp run Illawarra what’s wrong with that. As always GetsmartyThank you @Gareth67 .
Unfortunately the club and the way the game is run has got me to a point where I just don't care that much anymore. The club is on a downward spiral....
“That’s a mess”: Kings owner not interested in buying Dragons
Paul Smith has brushed off the suggestion of buying the St George Illawarra Dragons.www.sen.com.au
The game in general is no longer the spectacle it used to be.
What an embarrassing finals series....if that's the product the NRL want to push, they can keep it.
So what's changed from all those years ago when Illawarra made the decision to merge because they were not successful?
I agree with you Getsmarty, I’m sick and tried of the shit show that is the Dragons football club, it’s not one club it is 2. Paul Smith goes only 50% why not buy the whole club and make it your own like the Kings, that’s what I don’t get, don’t whinge that’s it’s a dumpster fire. If you put your hand up to spend 11.5 mill, why not take it all, I don’t get it. Jeez just buy the Dragons and have Win Corp run Illawarra what’s wrong with that. As always Getsmarty
No I think every player is contracted to Oct 31 each year. So maybe ? There are some that don’t want it out until their previous deal finishes.
