\u201cPlease be aware this event is not suitable for children. Unfortunately, we are unable to stream the event online for members who are unable to attend in person,\u201d an email sent around to members read.<\/p>\n
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Dragons CEO Tim Watsford has confirmed that children won\u2019t be able to attend the event at the Bruce Gordon Centre in Fairy Meadow.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou guys, particularly in the media, have been criticising our recruitment over the past couple of years so that will come up,\u201d Watsford told Code Sports. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy job is to fix it. Fans want answers, they want to win and I can\u2019t argue with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked by the publication if the sold-out event could get fiery, Watsford added, \u201cAbsolutely. Our fans are up and about and rightly so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe might get a few curly ones (questions), absolutely, but we wouldn\u2019t be doing our job if we didn\u2019t front up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there are bullets fired at us, some of it is probably misjudged, some of it judged. \u201cOur fan base is passionate and we haven\u2019t had success for a while. That\u2019s not a pass mark in anyone\u2019s books and I\u2019m not shying away from that.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘Weirder things have happened’ | 01:59<\/p>\n
FORMER NRL CENTRE ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT<\/p>\n
Konrad Hurrell, a former NRL centre for the Gold Coast Titans and New Zealand Warriors has announced that he has decided to hang up the boots on his rugby league.<\/p>\n
Last playing in the NRL, the 12-time Tonga international featured in 71 matches for the Warriors (2012-16) and 45 for the Titans (2016-18).<\/p>\n
Scoring 56 tries during this period, he most recently played for FC Lezignan in France and spent time in the Super League with multiple clubs, including Leeds Rhinos and St Helens.<\/p>\n
\u201cI appreciate your love and welcome for me and my little family in the Lezignan family and this great club,\u201d he posted on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cLoving French XIII rugby. To the boys and coaches, sorry my French sucks, I\u2019ll be better next time. Love you all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ex-Cowboys try-scoring winger Kyle Feldt added, \u201cEnjoy retirement toko! Much love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frustrated supporters of the St George Illawarra Dragons are preparing to front the club\u2019s bosses in a sold-out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-424797","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\/424797","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=424797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}