Retire Ben Hunt

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Hunt perfectly personifies the mediocrity of the Dragons. Deterioriating into an outdated dump of a team with all the charm of Allawah train station.

Time to relocate to Taipei

This is entirely accurate.

 

[maestro1]

Why would he care he was kept here against his will.
Its the bloke that kept him here that needs to make all the running to avoid the inevitable

I see you still beating the same drum. You do know that we all know you hate Flanno. No need to keep repeating it. Talk about a broken record. Did you ever think that maybe he was told that he had to take the coaching job on the provisional he kept Hunt. You and I are not privy to these negotiations.

 

[BennyV]

Looking forward to the Red V Podcast's attempts to defend him again this week.

"He's having a career best year"
"He's your halfback as long as he wants to be here"
Lol please!

The guy is the living embodiment of the McGregor years - all the tools to succeed let down by a complete lack of direction and desire to blame everyone else. Our rebuild cannot really start until he f**ks right off.

 

[Scootsie]

When Hunt comes back from representing the Kangaroos in the Pacific Cup he’ll be back in training with the Dragons For his final season.
He‘ll likely start at half, but in season 2025 he might expect more bench time ‘IF‘ they can find a half to step up and into the role.
No Lomax means that Hunt’s kicking game will most likely be dramatically less effective.
Theres no pressure on Hunt. All the pressure is on Flanagan.

 

[Dragsters]

Hunt ran 6 meters today, just 6 FFS

Pussy

 

[matPORTS]

The defense of Hunt seems to be around the fact that Damien Cook is coming and this will take more pressure off him.

First of all, don't get me wrong, I think Cookie will add a lot to our squad both on and off the field in his leadership capacity.

But one could easily argue - why did we need to go and chase Cook when the answer was already available?

9. Liddle
14. Hunt

Use the $600k+ (or thereabouts) to entice Wishart back to the club? Or surely there is another young half back out there who could fit the bill with some negotiation to get them out of their current contracts (i.e. O'Sullivan).

Make no bones about it - the jury is well and truly out on Hunt now. The smart jury can and should reject the evidence of "number one for try assists".

Hunt needs to step up in the games like we've had the last three weeks and take full responsibility.

I don't know whether I've seen Hunt lead us out of a game where we have been up against it (whether it's closing out a tight one, a come back win or regaining some level of respectability on the scoreboard). At the very least we could probably count the occasions on one hand. Performances, like those of the last three weeks, aren't going to be acceptable in 2025 - we need to be putting in more respectable performances against the regular mainstay finals teams of the last 5-7 years AND those teams who end up being around or just below us on the table during any given season. This needs your leadership group to be on song every game, and the burden of making sure this happens is firmly on the captain.

One finals appearance in seven seasons. The last remanence of the McGregor-era. It really is time to seriously consider moving on.