{"id":415988,"date":"2026-05-07T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415988\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:24:09","slug":"dragons-make-call-on-immediate-future-for-jaydn-sua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415988\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons make call on immediate future for Jaydn Su’A"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> have decided star second-rower Jaydn Su’A<\/a> will not be leaving the club early.<\/p>\n

The Queensland State of Origin<\/a> representative who could well miss out on that arena this year owing to his and the Dragons’ awful form over the first third of the season, is currently out suspended.<\/p>\n

He has signed a deal with the Parramatta Eels<\/a> from the start of 2027, and will leave the Red V at the end of this season.<\/p>\n

Despite being under contract with the joint-venture through to the end of the campaign, the Eels had inquired about the possibility of grabbing Su’A before this year’s trade deadline on June 30.<\/p>\n

That comes with the blue and gold battling plenty of injuries, including season enders for both second-rower Matt Doorey<\/a> and middle forward J’maine Hopgood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dragons could well have been weighing up the benefits of letting Su’A go, with 2026 all but consigned to the rubbish dump already, and the club having a host of young forwards they are attempting to find minutes for including second-rowers Ryan Couchman<\/a>, Dylan Egan<\/a> (who returns from injury this weekend) and Ryan Couchman<\/a>, with Luciano Leilua<\/a> also in the system and off-contract at season’s end.<\/p>\n

But The Sydney Morning Herald has now revealed that the door for Su’A to leave early has been slammed shut and he will remain with the Red V through to the end of the year.<\/p>\n

It has been revealed that the Dragons are still hoping to salvage something from the campaign, although what exactly is up in the air – avoiding the wooden spoon from where they are could be regarded as a success for interim coach Dean Young<\/a>, who inherited a zero and seven side from Shane Flanagan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Su’A has been one of the Dragons best since arriving from the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a>, but is currently sidelined with a suspension, and will only be eligible to return after Magic Round<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St George Illawarra Dragons have decided star second-rower Jaydn Su’A will not be leaving the club early.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-415988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}