Furious Dragons skipper hits out at 'mole' claims

Dragons skipper Ben Hunt has denied suggestions there's a leak successful the playing radical aft details of the incidental betwixt Mikaele Ravalawa and Zane Musgrove astatine the team's edifice successful Mudgee were released to members of the media.

The nine had a little than perfect commencement to the year, with some Talatau Amone and Francis Molo progressive successful off-field controversies, and present allegations the teammates had an altercation astatine the squad edifice aft an embarrassing nonaccomplishment to South Sydney successful the Charity Shield.

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Following details of the incidental popping up successful the media, nine fable James Graham blamed "snitches" successful the squad for stirring up much drama.

But Hunt pushed backmost against the claims.

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"Everything seems to get retired these days. It doesn't substance what happens – you can't support it quiet," helium said.

"I don't deliberation there's a mole successful the group. I don't deliberation there's anyone that's intentionally gone retired and ratted the nine out. It's conscionable thing that happens these days."

It's been a unsmooth mates of years for Dragons supporters arsenic the club's subject connected and disconnected the tract has fto them down.

Players were caught breaking COVID-19 enactment astatine location orders erstwhile they had a barbeque that resulted successful hefty fines and suspensions being handed down. Then reports emerged of lone a fistful of players attending past year's presumption nighttime aft missing the finals for the 4th consecutive year.

"I truly don't person a occupation with the civilization here," Hunt said.

"There's evidently thing that happened with a mates of individuals that the nine is moving connected and moving with those guys to assistance them out. On a whole, I don't deliberation there's a civilization problem.

"There's a large clump of fellas present and everyone is moving hard each time to beryllium better. Everyone wants to triumph truthful I don't person immoderate issues.

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"We had a treatment conscionable arsenic a playing radical astir the incidental and what had happened. We addressed it and said it's clip to determination connected and absorption connected rugby league. (We said) that worldly doesn't hap present anymore and that it's each astir the footy.

"The commencement of the play couldn't travel quicker for us. We request to get retired determination and play immoderate games. If we commencement playing games and winning games past that worldly doesn't matter.

"What we did retired successful Mudgee wasn't large for us, but we judge that's not what we're about. I decidedly deliberation we've got a batch much to connection than what we showed retired there," the halfback added.

"Through the pre-season, we've been gathering to thing truly well, truthful successful a way, I'm benignant of blessed that happened down there. We astir apt got that crippled retired of our strategy and cognize we request to beryllium amended now.

"It's a spot of a aftermath up telephone that games are present present and we request to beryllium amended than what we were retired there."

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