Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nIf Pasifiki Tonga ends up leaving the club early, The Daily Telegraph\u2019s Dave Riccio says it\u2019ll be another player added to the long list of recruitment faux pas from the Dragons.<\/p>\n
Riccio says the club have struggled to retain some excellent juniors in the past decade.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a good look at all,\u201d Riccio said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis situation of him asking for permission to negotiate with rival clubs illustrates almost a decade worth of similar situations where they are losing way too many of their own talent.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m talking about Tryan Wishart, Reuben Garrick, Reece Robson, Cam McInnes. Here is another example of something that shouldn\u2019t be happening at the Dragons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a problem for the entire club. You can\u2019t have a kid like that asking to leave.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The under-fire Dragons have been dealt another blow with talented young gun Loko Pasifiki Tonga requesting to negotiate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,17343,52527,763,126091,761,762,673,158,677,11396,145893,40694,11739,2528,4583,145890,85,295387,295388,670,295390,295389,145892,9020,46862],"class_list":{"0":"post-607144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","11":"tag-daily-telegraph","12":"tag-dave-riccio","13":"tag-fox-league","14":"tag-mat-rogers","15":"tag-national-rugby-league","16":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","17":"tag-new-south-wales","18":"tag-nrl","19":"tag-oceania","20":"tag-paul-crawley","21":"tag-picture-warren","22":"tag-recruitment-blunders","23":"tag-reece-robson","24":"tag-rival-clubs","25":"tag-shane-flanagan","26":"tag-south-sydney-v","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-sports-management-company","29":"tag-stunning-contract-call","30":"tag-sydney","31":"tag-talented-young-gun","32":"tag-tremendous-young-man","33":"tag-warren-gannon","34":"tag-young-gun","35":"tag-young-man"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607144","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=607144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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