The Rumours Thread

[TheRev]

I've been saying:
Hasler for Coach
Brown for recruitment / pathways

If we get both, I feel like you are in-line for some sort of forum promotion!

 

[RedVDave]

I've always found it strange that Flanno hasn't been offered another gig (as a head coach) he did what everyone thought was impossible with Cronulla but he's been legally available by the NRL since 2020 I believe there's been about 10 coaches sacked since then and he hasn't got a start. I think his behind the scenes dramas may be worse than reported not even Cronulla wanted him back am I overthinking it or does something seriously not add up?

 

[justadragon]

There definitely seemed like a shift in Hunts responses to the media a few weeks back.. could be coincidence.. but timing would be about right that we were negotiating and he wasn't too happy with the outcome.. Des prob made it clear about playing hooker also..

Would love to know if that deal is closed though or still being negotiated.. I think the club really want to know their interim policy also, but they don't know how to handle it... if they back Griffin to continue as interim.. and things get even worse.. they look pretty silly.

How much worse can it get, we are just about equal last on the ladder !!!

 

[justadragon]

I've always found it strange that Flanno hasn't been offered another gig (as a head coach) he did what everyone thought was impossible with Cronulla but he's been legally available by the NRL since 2020 I believe there's been about 10 coaches sacked since then and he hasn't got a start. I think his behind the scenes dramas may be worse than reported not even Cronulla wanted him back am I overthinking it or does something seriously not add up?

How many coaches do you know that have been through something like that and have come back to be successful, James Hird went through a similar thing and look what happened to him. Even if Flanno I suppose took over a club and got that team to some significant point, there would always be just a little question mark of hmmm I wonder. I think its a case of " Forgive but Never Forget".

 

[Mojo]

How many coaches do you know that have been through something like that and have come back to be successful, James Hird went through a similar thing and look what happened to him. Even if Flanno I suppose took over a club and got that team to some significant point, there would always be just a little question mark of hmmm I wonder. I think its a case of " Forgive but Never Forget".

What if, god forbid, he actually hasn't learned from his mistakes? Just imagine the worst case scenario - after all we've been through, Saints appoint a coach with his background and someone get's busted again! His actions during his suspension also demonstrated that he's an inherently loose cannon. Yes, he served his time etc. but it's simply a permanent stain on his CV.

 

[baggygreen man]

So any club that wants to pay over a $1 million a season for a 35 year old halfback that cant game manage

Our FO should be shot at dawn for signing this bloke back in 2018. I saw it then as a knee jerk reaction to the looming loss of Gareth Widdop and still do. Widdop would game manage Hunt under the table. In his Dragons debut in 2014 against the Wests Tigers, Widdop had four assists of seven tries and potted eight from eight in the Dragons 44-24 win. Ben Hunt could only dream of a game impact like that.
Wasn't Hunt signed for six years at $1.2m a yr, so more like $7m. Just ponder the top tierers we could have had playing for us now for that kind of coin.

 

[KogarahWarrior]

I think 2-6 is pretty bad. Lose to the tigers and surely this clown is gone. I’m still shocked that he’s still here after the doggies debacle. This circus is on par as the end of the peanut dark days

Even more, yeah some of those losses were close. But let's say we won them, and we're 6 and 2, I'd still be a bit pissed. Know why? Cos we've had a pretty damn easy draw and the second we came up against half decent opposition we got flogged.

 

[KogarahWarrior]

Our FO should be shot at dawn for signing this bloke back in 2018. I saw it then as a knee jerk reaction to the looming loss of Gareth Widdop and still do. Widdop would game manage Hunt under the table. In his Dragons debut in 2014 against the Wests Tigers, Widdop had four assists of seven tries and potted eight from eight in the Dragons 44-24 win. Ben Hunt could only dream of a game impact like that.
Wasn't Hunt signed for six years at $1.2m a yr, so more like $7m. Just ponder the top tierers we could have had playing for us now for that kind of coin.

Still have so much respect for Gaz as one of my favourite Dragons of the last 15-20 years. Even through the Mary era he pretty much carried our team, although Benji had a good season or two. McCrone as halfback, however...

 

[baggygreen man]

Still have so much respect for Gaz as one of my favourite Dragons of the last 15-20 years.

Ditto. FO should have done everything possible to keep him a Dragon beyond 2019. The season prior he took us to our first finals since 2015 and two years earlier was named Dally M 5/8 of the year. In his last year or so with us he did, tho, have a series of shoulder injuries which kept him off the field for lengthy periods. Perhaps that is the reason FO did not dig deep to keep him.

 

[baggygreen man]

If Des Hasler is our next coach do you think he may bring some Manly players with him. You know guys that he probably had a lot to do with during their development. One may be Josh Schuster who is a bit on the outer over there at present. Still young, good ball skills. Hearing he is currently on 600k.

 

[Wolfgang90]

Hasler just gives my Griffin vibes. Control freak who is too stubborn to change his ways if it doesn't work. No thank you.

 

[slippery5]

I've been saying:
Hasler for Coach
Brown for recruitment / pathways

For a long time. I really hope this comes true because I feel this would turn around the direction we have been going in.

You also got your wish with Fifita......

 

[Crush]

I heard today it ain’t going to be Hasler…

 

[BLM01]

I heard today it ain’t going to be Hasler…

Lets hope it is Flanno, Hornby and thats it. Otherwise unless Bellamy comes.
If none of the above then it is cave time. I am still going with Des

 

[BIG RIG]

I think we can agree that no one knows who it is going to be

So many names have been thrown around but one time or another all those names have also been ruled out

Club has no clue

 

[Murfy]

Would love it if we got Shane Richardson for GM of football

 

[slippery5]

Do not count out one from left field, Shaun Wane.

 

[redv13]

I heard today it ain’t going to be Hasler…

McGregor coming back with Price as his assistant

 

[jak]

McGregor coming back with Price as his assistant

please take that back, what if one of our board members reads it

 

[Draginzaaar]

Even more, yeah some of those losses were close. But let's say we won them, and we're 6 and 2, I'd still be a bit pissed. Know why? Cos we've had a pretty damn easy draw and the second we came up against half decent opposition we got flogged.

Roosters?