{"id":623504,"date":"2026-04-22T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623504\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:25:12","slug":"dean-young-tipped-to-win-full-time-job-at-the-dragons-shane-flanagan-nrl360-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623504\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Young tipped to win full time job at the Dragons, Shane Flanagan, NRL360, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interim coach Dean Young will face a baptism of fire this weekend when the Dragons take on the Roosters on Anzac Day, but he\u2019s being tipped to keep the job full-time. <\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of every round of the NRL Premiership LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There was reportedly some consternation among some factions of the joint venture club to name Young as the interim coach, but ultimately, the Dragons handed the club legend the gig.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph\u2019s Brent Read believes the Dragons\u2019 gig is \u201chis to lose\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is his chance to show he\u2019s the right man for the job,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he puts up a good showing in the next few weeks, it\u2019s got to be his job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Michael Carayannis says Young\u2019s promotion was a no-brainer for now. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the right guy for the right time,\u201d Carayannis said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether or not he\u2019s the right guy for the long-term head coaching job, that\u2019s something that remains to be seen. But for right now, what the club needs, Dean Young was the perfect (hire).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young hasn\u2019t wasted anytime shaking up the side in the wake of Shane Flanagan\u2019s exit.<\/p>\n<p>Promising playmaker Kade Reed will start at halfback in what will be his NRL debut with Kyle Flanagan demoted to the bench. <\/p>\n<p>Given the swath of young talent on the roster such as Reed, Dylan Egan, Lhykan King-Togia and Loko Pasifiki-Tonga, being able to develop the unproven guys will be key in whether Young keeps the job. <\/p>\n<p>Carayannis touched on this when he revealed what the Dragons could potentially be looking for when they hire their next full-time coach. <\/p>\n<p>Could the Roosters chase Cleary? | 04:22<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at their last couple of coaches, Anthony Griffin and Shane Flanagan. Experienced coaches, right? So I feel like now they\u2019re going to go for a younger guy,\u201d Carayannis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDean Young is obviously a candidate. Ben Hornby is the other one, right? And then you look around the league and you look at some of those young coaches. Is it a John Morris? Is it a Matt King if they go outside the box.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I feel like it\u2019s going to be a younger guy who can produce junior talent. That\u2019s going to be the number one criteria around getting that emerging talent at the club. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA development-style coach and someone who\u2019s got some gravitas in the player market because that\u2019s where they\u2019ve struggled at as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interim coach Dean Young will face a baptism of fire this weekend when the Dragons take on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,6173,31208,302054,302053,763,197910,15902,6086,7664,280325,279281,12412,289631,761,762,673,158,677,69375,302052,85,4563,302055,4526,67665],"class_list":{"0":"post-623504","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-club-legend","12":"tag-club-needs","13":"tag-daily-telegraph-april-21","14":"tag-development-style-coach","15":"tag-fox-league","16":"tag-glen-campbell","17":"tag-head-coaching-job","18":"tag-interim-coach","19":"tag-kyle-flanagan","20":"tag-long-term-head-coaching","21":"tag-lord-morris-of-aberavon","22":"tag-matt-king","23":"tag-michael-carayannis","24":"tag-national-rugby-league","25":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","26":"tag-new-south-wales","27":"tag-nrl","28":"tag-oceania","29":"tag-player-market","30":"tag-right-guy","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-st-george-illawarra-dragons","33":"tag-time-job","34":"tag-wollongong","35":"tag-young-coaches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623504","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=623504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}