Gerringong Lions forward Hamish Stewart suffered another concussion as the Dragons went down to the Warriors 14-10 in Auckland on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Stewart was taken from the field after 15 minutes following a sickening head clash with teammate Jack de Belin as they were trying to make a tackle.<\/p>\n
That double blow for the Dragons was compounded 15 minutes later when interchange forward Hame Sele was also concussed, leaving the team severely depleted as the match wore on.<\/p>\n
St George Illawarra led 10-4 at half-time and looked like they were going to hold on for a rousing victory but as their energy faded, the Warriors took advantage with two tries in the final 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
The levelling try came in controversial circumstances after the Dragons appealed for an obstruction penalty from a decoy runner in the lead-up to Adam Pompey touching down but the play was given the green light by referee Todd Smith and the Bunker.<\/p>\n
Dragons coach Shane Flanagan was furious.<\/p>\n
“It was really tough for us that what was an obstruction last week is not an obstruction this week.<\/p>\n
“I started playing footy when I was four years old, and I don’t know the rules anymore. I deadset do not know the rules.<\/p>\n
“So it is tough, but we are a tough club and this is a really connected unit and we will fight really hard for the next three weeks.”<\/p>\n
Another Gerringong product, centre Hayden Buchanan, turned in a solid performance in his second appearance in the NRL for the Dragons.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old made 18 runs for 135 metres with 18 tackles as well.<\/p>\n
St George Illawarra’s faint chances of making the finals are now over and they have to dust themselves off for next Thursday’s stoush with South Sydney at Accor Stadium.<\/p>\n
Stewart, who was knocked out last month and sat out a match in Canberra, will be ruled out of the rumble with the Rabbitohs due to the concussion protocols along with de Belin and Sele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerringong Lions forward Hamish Stewart suffered another concussion as the Dragons went down to the Warriors 14-10 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-71484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71484","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=71484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}