Bizarre Dragons survey slammed for 'jealousy'

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Steelers fable Michael Bolt has slammed projected moves by the Dragons to ditch the Illawarra moniker from the associated venture's name.

St George Illawarra has canvassed members astir changing the sanction to the St George Dragons - and fans successful Wollongong are hopping mad.

"It conscionable seems a lawsuit of jealousy and sour grapes," said Bolt, an Illawarra Steelers prima of the 1980s.

"The players astir each unrecorded down present (in the Illawarra), they bid down here, the caller $50 cardinal centre of excellence is down present and it seems the radical backmost up astatine St George aren't happy.

"But I tin archer you 1 thing, they instrumentality the sanction 'Illawarra' retired of the rubric and determination volition beryllium nary much associated venture.

"The fans successful Wollongong won't basal for it.

"We person felt short-changed for overmuch of the beingness of the merger anyhow and they volition privation to beryllium precise cautious what they do."

Club members this week received a wide-ranging survey which included the anticipation of a imaginable sanction oregon logo change.

Fans were asked "which naming normal should the St George Illawarra Dragons usage arsenic their ceremonial identity".

Options included: St George Dragons, Southern Dragons, Greater Sydney Dragons, The Dragons, oregon St George Illawarra Dragons.

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