Dragons make bombshell captaincy call

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Jack de Belin has been named Dragons skipper for the club's circular 13 clash with the Dolphins, with regular skipper Ben Hunt connected State of Origin duties.

The quality comes aft de Belin's beardown show successful St George-Illawarra's past gasp triumph implicit the Roosters reportedly enactment him successful calculations for NSW for the State of Origin opener.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that NSW aesculapian unit asked for an update connected de Belin aft helium starred for the Dragons against the Roosters. They were told helium was acceptable and would beryllium disposable if selected.

De Belin is portion of the Dragons enactment radical and is the club's astir experienced subordinate successful Hunt's absence.

It's understood the Dragons besides considered teammates Blake Lawrie and Jaydn Su'A for the captaincy relation but some volition beryllium missing for Thursday's game.

Jack de Belin jumps connected Mathew Feagai arsenic the Dragons observe the lucifer winning effort against the Roosters. (Getty)

Lawrie is expected to miss up to a period with a breached manus portion Su'A has a hamstring problem.

The Dragons guardant played successful the 2018 bid but has not played Origin since spending much than 2 years retired of the crippled nether the NRL's no-fault stand-down argumentation arsenic helium fought intersexual battle charges successful the aforesaid year.

De Belin was allowed to instrumentality to the crippled aft helium was recovered not guilty of 1 intersexual battle charge, portion the assemblage could not determine connected 5 different charges, with the DPP choosing to retreat the charges and not prosecute a 3rd trial.

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