St. George Illawarra\u2019s 24-16 win over the Sharks<\/a>, scoring a spectacular try, setting another up and making 41 tackles.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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Stewart and the Dragons\u2019 young forwards have been a rare bright spot in a tough season for the Red V. <\/p>\n
Asked about Stewart\u2019s performance post-game, Young said the back rower wouldn\u2019t look out of place in the green and gold this early in his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a special talent and it wouldn\u2019t shock me if Kevvie Walters picks him in the Australian tour at the end of the year, he\u2019s that good,\u201d Young said of Stewart.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Stewart) is a bloke that can play edge backrow and middle just as good with his skill set\u2026 he\u2019s got a big future and it\u2019s going to be at the Dragons.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Dragons had their backs against the wall early when Cronulla crossed inside the first five minutes.<\/p>\n
Against a quality side like the Sharks, warning bells would\u2019ve been going off for Dragons fans that it was about to be a long afternoon, but as this side has shown in recent weeks, this isn\u2019t the same Dragons team we saw across the first half of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI reckon the resilience we showed was probably what stood out for me,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Sharks have got threats all over the field and I think they ended up having 35 play the balls inside our 20 and we only had 15 so to win the game against a team like that with that much ball, you need to be resilient and the boys are certainly that at the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been playing good footy the last three months, and we\u2019ve just been losing just by sort of a try or a silly mistake, and we didn\u2019t have that tonight,\u201d skipper Clint Gutherson added.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgainst a team that\u2019s put (big scores) on a couple of teams, it\u2019s really pleasing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese young kids, they deserve it. The fans deserve it and Deano (Young) deserved it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dragons coach Dean Young has made a huge representative call on young back rower Hamish Stewart, stating it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-849142","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\/849142","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=849142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}