{"id":359571,"date":"2025-12-20T02:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359571\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T02:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:45:10","slug":"dragons-land-historic-new-partnership-ahead-of-2026-season-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359571\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons land historic new partnership ahead of 2026 season &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> have entered into a new historic partnership with JAC Motors that will see their branding appear on the club&#8217;s playing shorts and match-day assets in both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrlw\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRLW<\/a> competitions.<\/p>\n<p>In a multi-year agreement, the brand will also be the Dragons&#8217; official car partner and marks a powerful alliance and partnership between the two organisations built on toughness, performance and community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re thrilled to welcome JAC Motors into the Dragons family. JAC Motors is a forward-thinking organisation whose values closely align with our strategic direction as a club,&#8221; CEO Tim Watsford said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking ahead to Vegas and our move to the Bruce Gordon Centre in early 2026, partnering with JAC Motors signals our commitment to a powerful new era of growth across all areas of the club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JAC Motors Managing Director Ahmed Mahmoud added, &#8220;The Dragons represent everything we value at JAC Motors \u2013 commitment, resilience, and deep community roots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we grow our Australian presence with vehicles engineered for real-world performance, partnering with a club that shares our fighting spirit and drive for excellence was an easy decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Red V Army&#8217;s passion is legendary, and we&#8217;re committed to delivering value that matches it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting with sending two proud club members to Vegas for Round One is just the first play in what we see as a long-term partnership built on mutual respect and shared ambition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The St George Illawarra Dragons have entered into a new historic partnership with JAC Motors that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-359571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}