Madge\u2019s big Haas question; Benji\u2019s nightmare as Tigers crisis deepens<\/a><\/p>\nFlanagan opened up on the club\u2019s spiral as the losses stacked up and why he felt he had no choice but to step aside.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been really difficult. Obviously I didn\u2019t plan on this happening at all,\u201d Flanagan said of his departure.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe seemed to get worse week-in, week-out and I think players lost a lot of confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel that something had to change and we can\u2019t get rid of five or six players. The something that had to change was probably me. There was a little bit more to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe group and the club are trying really hard and Dean will be trying really hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m their number one fan. I want them to win. I need them to win and when you\u2019re confidence is down, look what happens.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to get out of that confidence (slump) and changing belief. They\u2019re good enough. Last year, they beat Brisbane in Brisbane, beat the Sharks, the Warriors, the Storm. They beat some good teams and had big wins and except Daniel Atkinson, it\u2019s really the same team but when belief isn\u2019t there, this is what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyle and Shane Flanagan.Source: Supplied<\/p>\n
Flanagan was then asked about the criticism his son Kyle has copped over the past couple of seasons. <\/p>\n
He said it was a major factor in his decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m sitting here. Really, it is,\u201d Flanagan admitted. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a few reasons why I made my decision. Obviously results and the pressure and not winning footy games but Kyle came into it as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was tough but at the time when he came to the club, Ben Hunt was halfback. We had Junior Amone and Jayden Sullivan as well. We brought Kyle to be our No. 14 and wanted to eventually transition him into hooker.<\/p>\n
\u201cBen Hunt left, Junior Amone was suspended and Jayden went to the Tigers and we didn\u2019t envisage all those things happening. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, he\u2019s the best half at the club. He competes hard but he\u2019s not that creative, we know that. But next year with Drinkwater coming over, that\u2019ll help him. We just need that (creativity) out the back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Flanagan has revealed he isn\u2019t looking to revive his head coaching career in the NRL and said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[8082,64,63,689,21686,651,4437,11096,299749,338640,25165,327006,14872,761,762,2613,158,677,701,33195,4583,85,338639,777,45262,338638,113425],"class_list":["post-694421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-anthony-seibold","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-hunt","tag-brisbane","tag-daniel-atkinson","tag-daniel-nuttall","tag-dean-young","tag-dragons-exit","tag-four-game-losing-streak","tag-head-coaching-career","tag-jayden-sullivan","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-zealand-warriors","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-queensland","tag-season-opener","tag-shane-flanagan","tag-sports","tag-things-happening","tag-todd-payten","tag-triple-m","tag-unceremonious-exit","tag-wade-graham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694421","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=694421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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