Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\nHeading into the ANZAC Day clash on Saturday afternoon against the Roosters, the Dragons enter with a 0-7 record in what has been the worst start to their season in club history.<\/p>\n
Still aiming to clinch their first victory, the Dragons decided to make multiple tough calls in the past two days.<\/p>\n
This included parting ways with head coach Shane Flanagan, assistant Michael Ennis and GM of Football Ben Haran.<\/p>\n
However, veteran Code Sports journalist David Riccio believes that the trio may not be the \u201conly heads to roll\u201d as they look to re-establish themselves as a premiership threat.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can ask me what went wrong with Shane, you can ask me what went wrong with Anthony Griffin, what happened with Paul McGregor. It\u2019s endemic in that football club,\u201d Riccio said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have failed for so many years now to nail their recruitment and promote their own within their own backyard and to hold on to those in their own backyard.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mere fact that we\u2019ve got this point in time and they\u2019re looking under the hood and looking at every person in that business.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think Shane Flanagan and Ben Haran will be the only heads to roll once the Dragons are finished.\u201d<\/p>\n
Young explains change for Kyle Flanagan | 01:33<\/p>\n
After Riccio revealed that more changes to the front office could occur sooner rather than later, NRL 360 co-host Braith Anasta pressed on about who could depart next.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho else is there? Who else is going to roll?\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n
To which Riccio replied, \u201cI think high performance, I think their football structure, as far as their pathways program. <\/p>\n
\u201cI honestly think this has to be a turning of the page moment for the club. <\/p>\n
\u201cShane Flanagan\u2019s only another Anthony Griffin (and) only another Paul McGregor. It just keeps happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
Young: “No one knows the club like me” | 07:08<\/p>\n
In stating that changes need to be made from the pathways program to the very top of the club, it is understood that success won\u2019t occur until these changes happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re saying all these people are all underneath the leadership at the club. You can\u2019t just keep getting rid of people underneath,\u201d Anasta continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd probably you\u2019re right Braith. It is about the dysfunction at the highest level,\u201d Riccio added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past 48 hours, the St George Illawarra Dragons have parted ways with three key figures of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-621089","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\/621089","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=621089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}