Media personality and player agent Braith Anasta has used his platform as host of NRL 360 to launch an eye-opening tirade at St. George Illawarra Dragons chairman Andrew Lancaster.
The outburst followed pointed comments by Lancaster towards certain sections of the media who he said had been motivated by ‘personal agendas’ in the way the Dragons and its former coach Shane Flanagan had been portrayed in recent weeks.
While Lancaster, who is also chief executive of WIN Corporation, chose not to name any journalists or media outlets in Monday’s press conference, it’s clear Anasta took very personal exception.
“I’m a big boy,” Anasta declared on NRL 360.
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“I think it’s a convenient narrative Andrew Lancaster is pushing to try and smother his own poor leadership and decisions that he has made,” he continued.
“To try and point his finger at the media, and me indirectly, I thought was weak as p-ss, just like his press conference was.”
Anasta wasn’t finished either.
“He (Lancaster) took no accountability today, he had an opportunity to have some backbone, to have some balls and sit there and say ‘I’ve made some poor decisions, we’ve made some poor decisions, we’ve got it wrong at times’… and reiterate to the St George Illawarra fans that we’re not going to stand for it any longer,” Anasta added.
“Instead, he tried to blame it on everyone else bar himself.”
Anasta’s issues with the Dragons in recent times are well documented, with the NRL 360 host publicly questioning the selection policies at the joint venture club during the 2025 season when one of his clients, Lachlan Ilias, was consistently overlooked for first-grade by Shane Flanagan.