Dragons awards night no-show rings alarm bells

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Twenty-seven of St George Illawarra's apical 30 NRL players missed Tuesday night's end-of-season nine presentation, successful increasing signs of discontent astatine the associated task club.

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, galore of the players were astatine location and chose not to be the event, which is simply a request of employment astatine astir clubs successful the NRL.

Winner of the club's subordinate of the twelvemonth award, Ben Hunt, Zac Lomax and fringe first-grader Michael Molo were the lone players present. The nine confirmed attendance was not compulsory adjacent though astir of the club's NRLW squad was there.

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The Dragons responded to the claims, saying it was a scheduling mishap.

"We had to hold until the completion of the NRLW play to marque definite everyone had the accidental to observe their seasons," Dragons main enforcement Ryan Webb said.

"When you bash this it meant our men's squad were 3 to 4 weeks into their permission play truthful galore had gone connected their holidays. It's a tricky concern for a batch of clubs with some NRL and NRLW teams volition person to enactment retired a solution for."

It's understood manager Anthony Griffin's occupation is harmless amid rumblings wrong the playing squad, which has seen Jayden Sullivan and Tyrell Sloan calling for releases to their deals with the club.

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Griffin was signed astatine the commencement of 2020 arsenic Paul McGregor's replacement due to the fact that of his absorption connected defence and discipline.

This twelvemonth alone his squad missed much tackles than immoderate different nine (938) and averaged 4 much missed tackles per crippled than past placed Wests Tigers.

In presumption of discipline, the Dragons finished the twelvemonth with the astir misdeed bins and send-offs successful the NRL with 12 players spending clip connected the sideline mid-game.

The unit is gathering connected Griffin after his adjunct coaches Mat Head and Peter Gentle were fto spell and amid reports the nine sounded retired the availability of Cameron Ciraldo successful August.

If the Dragons get disconnected to a atrocious commencement successful 2023, the sound volition lone turn louder implicit the embattled coach.

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