{"id":619597,"date":"2026-04-20T17:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:27:18","slug":"anasta-uses-nrl-360-platform-to-lash-weak-as-p-ss-dragons-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619597\/","title":{"rendered":"Anasta uses NRL 360 platform to lash \u2018weak as p-ss\u2018 Dragons chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dragons<\/a> chairman Andrew Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p>The outburst followed pointed comments by Lancaster towards certain sections of the media who he said had been motivated by \u2018personal agendas\u2019 in the way the Dragons and its former coach Shane Flanagan had been portrayed in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>While Lancaster, who is also chief executive of WIN Corporation, chose not to name any journalists or media outlets in Monday\u2019s press conference, it\u2019s clear Anasta took very personal exception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a big boy,\u201d Anasta declared on NRL 360.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/flanagan-sacked-dragons-ceo-chairman-press-conference-monday\/c10bcc23f9cea10ea8564e10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Flanagan removed as Dragons head coach by \u2018mutual agreement\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a convenient narrative Andrew Lancaster is pushing to try and smother his own poor leadership and decisions that he has made,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo try and point his finger at the media, and me indirectly, I thought was weak as p-ss, just like his press conference was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anasta wasn\u2019t finished either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Lancaster) took no accountability today, he had an opportunity to have some backbone, to have some balls and sit there and say \u2018I\u2019ve made some poor decisions, we\u2019ve made some poor decisions, we\u2019ve got it wrong at times\u2019\u2026 and reiterate to the St George Illawarra fans that we\u2019re not going to stand for it any longer,\u201d Anasta added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, he tried to blame it on everyone else bar himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anasta\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Media personality and player agent Braith Anasta has used his platform as host of NRL 360 to launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-619597","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-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619597","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=619597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}