Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nIs Drinkwater worth big Dragons offer? | 02:13<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s been an issue that\u2019s come up in the past and it causes a lot of drama and we get a lot of phone calls from Flanno and other people saying, it\u2019s unfair, but that is the perception. There\u2019s no doubt that\u2019s a perception.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cTallis interjected: \u201cYou\u2019re talking about his son.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWell yes,\u201d Read replied. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we\u2019re seeing a guy like Pasifika-Tonga is now considering his future, and that\u2019s not related to Kyle by the looks of it. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut the other guys who are considering their future, it\u2019s not directly related to that situation, but that contributes to it. And it builds up and builds up, and it all becomes one massive issue, and that\u2019s what they\u2019ve got at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Daily Telegraph\u2019s Michael Carayannis feels that now the club is losing and players are not getting opportunities, they feel more comfortable speaking out. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been elements in the background hinting at this there\u2019s no doubt,\u201d Carayannis said.<\/p>\n
Payten addresses Drinkwater’s future | 02:01<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now that they\u2019re losing their circling and probably have a sense to come forward and say some of those things that they think have been festering. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now the pressure\u2019s on and things are happening and Jaydn Su\u2019A\u2019s situation is not ideal and now one of their best young talents wants out.\u201d <\/p>\n
Anasta, who manages Lachlan Ilias, who had similar experiences in his one and only season at the Dragons before joining the Titans, feels there is a communication problem at the club. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an obvious communication problem there and a development problem,\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem isn\u2019t that, you\u2019ve got to work your ass off to get back into that spot. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the communication of where am I at, what am I going to do, am I doing it, how close am I, how far away am I? <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s just what you want to hear if you\u2019re on the verge of playing first grade or you\u2019re hungry and you\u2019re a young gun who wants to play for his club.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are suggestions Shane Flanagan has lost the St George Illawarra Dragons playing group after reports young gun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,18194,295834,254747,295835,1119,130147,4746,761,762,158,295836,26492,125389,128946,10185,294968,295833,4583,85,4563,294969,777,9020],"class_list":{"0":"post-608322","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-braith-anasta","11":"tag-communication-problem","12":"tag-crew-look","13":"tag-development-problem","14":"tag-football-club","15":"tag-lachlan-ilias","16":"tag-mark-st-john","17":"tag-national-rugby-league","18":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","19":"tag-nrl","20":"tag-obvious-communication-problem","21":"tag-phone-calls","22":"tag-player-movements","23":"tag-players-ready","24":"tag-playing-group","25":"tag-roster-admission","26":"tag-scott-drinkwaters","27":"tag-shane-flanagan","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-st-george-illawarra-dragons","30":"tag-star-inks-extension","31":"tag-todd-payten","32":"tag-young-gun"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608322","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=608322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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