Wayne\u2019s halves shake-up, shock axing… and Tigers backline overhaul<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cYou can\u2019t pull your socks up if you\u2019re not wearing any. They are such a limited squad and Dean Young didn\u2019t assemble it, Shane Flanagan did,\u201d Crawley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen enough of the Dragons this year to know there\u2019s not going to be a team they won\u2019t struggle against.<\/p>\n
\u201cI expect it to happen (lose the next five). I think it\u2019s going to be hard for them to win a game \u2026 It shouldn\u2019t be on wins and losses.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anasta agreed but says that the reality of the situation at the struggling joint venture club means that Young may be judged on wins and losses despite the state of the roster.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe point I\u2019m making is that you have a club board now under extreme pressure after the Flanagan situation, so how are they gonna justify to their fans watching if Dean Young goes out there loses the next five or six in a row since he\u2019s been in charge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow are they gonna justify signing him. It\u2019s going to make it hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t only Flanagan who lost his job. General manager of football Ben Haran handed in his resignation two days before Flanagan\u2019s departure last month.<\/p>\n
Haran was replaced by Ben Creagh, a club great who is good mates with Young with the pair winning a premiership together.<\/p>\n
Dragons great Ben Creagh has been appointed general manager of football at the club. Credit: Supplied.Source: Supplied Source Known<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope there\u2019s someone smart enough in the room to see what we\u2019re suggesting here that it may not be about results and I\u2019m pointing to Ben Creagh,\u201d The Daily Telegraph\u2019s Dave Riccio said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBen knows what success and defeat looks like and what winning dressing rooms look like so I hope Ben is a really critical role here in whether Dean actually gets this job or not \u2026 It\u2019ll be hard but it\u2019s not about being a mate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re good mates \u2026 That\u2019s a tough first assignment (for Creagh) to have,\u201d Anasta added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winless Dragons have a \u201chorror\u201d run of games upcoming in what will be a baptism of fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,303565,18194,30195,17343,11096,52527,315479,2105,5330,120387,81408,6086,83152,37556,761,762,673,158,677,11396,315480,85,315478,670,315477],"class_list":["post-652249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-creagh","tag-braith-anasta","tag-cameron-spencer","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-daniel-nuttall","tag-dave-riccio","tag-dressing-rooms-look","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-head-coach","tag-head-coach-role","tag-head-coaching-role","tag-interim-coach","tag-interim-head-coach","tag-joint-venture-club","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-south-wales","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-paul-crawley","tag-permanent-head-coaching","tag-sports","tag-struggling-joint-venture","tag-sydney","tag-venture-club-means"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652249","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=652249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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