The Rumours Thread

[Gareth67]

gareth, when you use the term maestro im assuming your referring to a mere mortal such as our old mate mary or, im holding my breath as i type this are you yourself thinking about a comeback to save our once great club. ps please be true i know you have the time since you got the lawn problem worked out .

Jak that’s not too bad an idea you know . A few of us old hard heads - schooled in the days when rugby league was a game where only the strong survived - should offer our combined services to the club so as to give the Dragons some respectability .

Mind you , for a small fee and a couple of Crown Lagers in the Boardroom after training , we may even be able to straighten out the thinking of the club’s hierarchy - one way or the other .

But back to your original question , yes I was referring to Mr. ‘ D ‘ himself , however we may as well allow Griffin to try one last time and see if he can pull a rabbit - er I mean a Dragon out of his hat .

 

[Das Hassler]

This once proud club is now a total basket case.
Its management team are
totally incompetent.
Looks like the 2023
season will be another disaster. (No top quality recruits)
Until the Board is replaced nothing will change.
Just admitting to following the Dragons is a embarrassing.

Funny thing with your club and a couple of others...we never seem to hear the calls for accountability etc etc from the journos..I'm not baiting
..just can't help noticing there never seems to be too much outside pressure on your board and management apart from that coming from the supporters and that even includes any club culture issues to do with off field stuff...that just seems to stop at the players. Tigers front office get smashed by the media for everything apart from traffic on Parramatta Rd whether it's deserved or not..it's curious.

 

[jak]

Jak that’s not too bad an idea you know . A few of us old hard heads - schooled in the days when rugby league was a game where only the strong survived - should offer our combined services to the club so as to give the Dragons some respectability .

Mind you , for a small fee and a couple of Crown Lagers in the Boardroom after training , we may even be able to straighten out the thinking of the club’s hierarchy - one way or the other .

But back to your original question , yes I was referring to Mr. ‘ D ‘ himself , however we may as well allow Griffin to try one last time and see if he can pull a rabbit - er I mean a Dragon out of his hat .

a couple of Crown Lagers in the Boardroom is how we got into this mess in the first place.

 

[Qdf]

Funny thing with your club and a couple of others...we never seem to hear the calls for accountability etc etc from the journos..I'm not baiting
..just can't help noticing there never seems to be too much outside pressure on your board and management apart from that coming from the supporters and that even includes any club culture issues to do with off field stuff...that just seems to stop at the players. Tigers front office get smashed by the media for everything apart from traffic on Parramatta Rd whether it's deserved or not..it's curious.

Yes the no noise from News LIMITED journalists
is deafening. Thanks to previous STGI Boards reneging on Super League.

 

[Yow]

Yes the no noise from News LIMITED journalists
is deafening. Thanks to previous STGI Boards reneging on Super League.

You could be right i always wanted us to stay loyal to ARL but i think we might be in a better place if we went with Super League and the Scum would be gone.

 

[Qdf]

You could be right i always wanted us to stay loyal to ARL but i think we might be in a better place if we went with Super League and the Scum would be gone.

Yes, we were supposed to go to super league. But the CEO at the time, reneged on the deal. We have been paying ever since. Even cost us a GF against the News LIMITED team .Melbourne Storm.

 

[Gareth67]

Yes, we were supposed to go to super league. But the CEO at the time, reneged on the deal. We have been paying ever since. Even cost us a GF against the News LIMITED team .Melbourne Storm.

That idiot Mundine cost the Dragons that G.Final by not passing to his unmarked winger outside him just before the halftime siren .

That extra 4 , possibly 6 points would had been a gap that the Storm could not had closed . Of course Ainscough and his high tackle certainly did not help matters , however if only ‘ The Man ‘ had not hogged the ball and try to be a hero , then that would had been another premiership for St.George Illawarra .

 

[18to87]

That idiot Mundine cost the Dragons that G.Final by not passing to his unmarked winger outside him just before the halftime siren .

That extra 4 , possibly 6 points would had been a gap that the Storm could not had closed . Of course Ainscough and his high tackle certainly did not help matters , however if only ‘ The Man ‘ had not hogged the ball and try to be a hero , then that would had been another premiership for St.George Illawarra .

Not this again.

You may be right about Mundine. But, also acknowledge Harrigan, all of his leg ups and turning a blind eye to blatant forward passes.

 

[Budpower]

we wouldnt have been near the 99 GF to start with without legend Chock

 

[AyiosYiorgos]

That idiot Mundine cost the Dragons that G.Final by not passing to his unmarked winger outside him just before the halftime siren .

That extra 4 , possibly 6 points would had been a gap that the Storm could not had closed . Of course Ainscough and his high tackle certainly did not help matters , however if only ‘ The Man ‘ had not hogged the ball and try to be a hero , then that would had been another premiership for St.George Illawarra .

what happens if the winger dropped the ball, would it have been Mundine's fault for passing the ball and not going for the try, like @Budpower said we wouldnt have gotten to the GF without Choc's brilliance during the semi's.

 

[redv13]

what happens if the winger dropped the ball, would it have been Mundine's fault for passing the ball and not going for the try, like @Budpower said we wouldnt have gotten to the GF without Choc's brilliance during the semi's.

Love him or hate him, choc was a very big reason we made it to the gf. He was brilliant during the finals run but most people only remember the bombed try in the gf. I still get tingles watching highlights of the prelim vs Scumulla where he single handedly destroyed those muppets and their arrogant supporters who expected to clean us up in that game

 

[Gareth67]

Not this again.

You may be right about Mundine. But, also acknowledge Harrigan, all of his leg ups and turning a blind eye to blatant forward passes.

I would had mentioned that show pony as well , however I could not recall his name , but you are certainly correct about his input that influenced the final result .

 

[Gareth67]

we wouldnt have been near the 99 GF to start with without legend Chock

what happens if the winger dropped the ball, would it have been Mundine's fault for passing the ball and not going for the try, like @Budpower said we wouldnt have gotten to the GF without Choc's brilliance during the semi's.

Love him or hate him, choc was a very big reason we made it to the gf. He was brilliant during the finals run but most people only remember the bombed try in the gf. I still get tingles watching highlights of the prelim vs Scumulla where he single handedly destroyed those muppets and their arrogant supporters who expected to clean us up in that game

Gents there is no doubt that Mr. Mundine was a magical player and yes his contribution to the Dragons getting to the big game was indeed tremendous - I wholeheartedly agree with each of you .

However the Dragons did make the ‘99 G.Final thanks to the efforts from each of the members of a very talented squad . Hell even McGregor played excellent footy throughout the season and his defence ( ! ) was instrumental in negating many opponents attacking raids.

As said , it was a combined effort from a team that was truly St.George and Illawarra for the first occasion to get to the trophy game , you only need to look at the players the Dragons had in that their initial season of the amalgamation .

Pardon the long winded summary , however I am sure that one could look at many reasons why a team failed at the last hurdle in any Grand Final , I have stated mine , which is merely my opinion , I am sure that there are many others which vary from mine also .

 

[Dorothy the Winowhore]

This once proud club is now a total basket case.
Its management team are
totally incompetent.
Looks like the 2023
season will be another disaster. (No top quality recruits)
Until the Board is replaced nothing will change.
Just admitting to following the Dragons is a embarrassing.

Not embarrassing to me. Always have been proud to be a Dragons fan, wear my Dragons polos when out and about. Nothing is ever going to change that.

If it is such an issue for you to openly admit you support them, there is a way to fix that.

 

[Yow]

Not embarrassing to me. Always have been proud to be a Dragons fan, wear my Dragons polos when out and about. Nothing is ever going to change that.

If it is such an issue for you to openly admit you support them, there is a way to fix that.

With you Dorothy even if we get beaten early on the weekend i still put my dragons shirt on when i go out knowing that i will cop crap i just tell them i follow my all the time not just when we win.But i give it to them with both barrels when we beat their team.

 

[thebigredv]

Not embarrassing to me. Always have been proud to be a Dragons fan, wear my Dragons polos when out and about. Nothing is ever going to change that.

If it is such an issue for you to openly admit you support them, there is a way to fix that.

I think it's easy not to be embarrassed when the club is irrelevant in the eyes of the rugby league community. Each year is a step further to vanishing the Dragons rugby league club going by what I have seen from the administration of the game. The ineptness of the board and out-of-his-depth CEO only compounds it.

Nor am I embarrassed about parading the Dragons jersey around the place but the losing culture very much diminishes its value. Very hard to get excited about the joint or the prospects of the team.

Get some fight, fortitude and brains back at the club and all this can change. Essentially it is about winning and I can't see how we string two wins together this year. I mean, for starters, we have a coach who is just hanging around and all in sundry know it. What club in their right mind think this is acceptable in professional sport?

 

[jak]

That idiot Mundine cost the Dragons that G.Final by not passing to his unmarked winger outside him just before the halftime siren .

That extra 4 , possibly 6 points would had been a gap that the Storm could not had closed . Of course Ainscough and his high tackle certainly did not help matters , however if only ‘ The Man ‘ had not hogged the ball and try to be a hero , then that would had been another premiership for St.George Illawarra .

Harrigan would have disallowed it anyway.

 

[Qdf]

I think it's easy not to be embarrassed when the club is irrelevant in the eyes of the rugby league community. Each year is a step further to vanishing the Dragons rugby league club going by what I have seen from the administration of the game. The ineptness of the board and out-of-his-depth CEO only compounds it.

Nor am I embarrassed about parading the Dragons jersey around the place but the losing culture very much diminishes its value. Very hard to get excited about the joint or the prospects of the team.

Get some fight, fortitude and brains back at the club and all this can change. Essentially it is about winning and I can't see how we string two wins together this year. I mean, for starters, we have a coach who is just hanging around and all in sundry know it. What club in their right mind think this is acceptable in professional sport?

Well said BigredV. Bravo.

 

[Gareth67]

I think it's easy not to be embarrassed when the club is irrelevant in the eyes of the rugby league community. Each year is a step further to vanishing the Dragons rugby league club going by what I have seen from the administration of the game. The ineptness of the board and out-of-his-depth CEO only compounds it.

Nor am I embarrassed about parading the Dragons jersey around the place but the losing culture very much diminishes its value. Very hard to get excited about the joint or the prospects of the team.

Get some fight, fortitude and brains back at the club and all this can change. Essentially it is about winning and I can't see how we string two wins together this year. I mean, for starters, we have a coach who is just hanging around and all in sundry know it. What club in their right mind think this is acceptable in professional sport?

There have been times when I believe that the board are simply preparing the way for the end .

I realize that in itself is a sad way to look our current situation , however there just does not appear to be anyone within the St.George Illawarra hierarchy that truly has a vision of a successful future for the Dragons .

Or perhaps more so , how to implement that vision to a successful outcome .

 

[Nanadragon]

You guys make me feel so sad, but I agree with your sentiments.