Flanagan bristles at Dragons interview prospect

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Premiership-winning NRL manager Shane Flanagan has revealed his manager is successful talks astir a instrumentality to the St George Illawarra Dragons arsenic the club's caput coach.

Currently astatine Manly arsenic an assistant, Flanagan has agelong been touted for a fig of caput coaching roles and appears to beryllium 1 of the beforehand runners for the Dragons occupation aft Jason Ryles rejected the position.

"I'll conscionable fto it unfold, that's what you person managers for and hopefully thing happens and gets done but astatine this signifier I haven't had immoderate connection with the Dragons, my manager has and that's the mode I'll permission it," helium told 2GB's Wide World of Sports Radio.

When asked if he'd spell done an interrogation process, Flanagan stated "I don't deliberation I request to", but admitted he'd person to sermon matters with the nine aft Ryles' decision.

"I deliberation I'd request to speech to their committee and CEO (Ryan Webb) and they'd person a batch of questions for maine and I'd person a batch of questions of them, and we request to spell done that process decidedly for sure," helium said.

"Obviously Jason had immoderate concerns erstwhile helium went determination and pulled retired past infinitesimal ... arsenic I said there's a batch of h2o to spell nether the bridge, hopefully it doesn't instrumentality excessively agelong if it's going to hap but I'll permission it to my manager ... but I don't deliberation I request to spell done an interrogation process.

"Obviously the nine would cognize what I've done successful the game, I've coached astatine NRL level for 8 years, won a competition, evidently everyone talks astir I've had a suspension but I learnt truthful overmuch from that play and I'm a amended person, amended manager ... if the Dragons are interested, we'll chat."

After winning the contention successful 2016 with Cronulla, Flanagan was de-registered by the NRL successful 2019 for failing to adhere to the conditions of a suspension successful 2014 aft the Sharks' supplements saga.

The erstwhile Dragons subordinate was eligible to beryllium a caput manager past twelvemonth and could present marque his instrumentality with the associated venture.

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Flanagan opened up connected the suspensions helium served during his clip astatine Cronulla, and revealed his relation successful trying to stamp retired the show enhancing drugs situation.

"It was a truly acheronian time successful rugby league, I'm not making immoderate excuses for it ... evidently we got a rogue idiosyncratic successful the nine and erstwhile I recovered retired astir it I got escaped of him 2 weeks later," helium explained.

Shane Flanagan. (Cameron Spencer via Getty Images)

"Then 2 years aboriginal they came knocking connected our doorway saying the players mightiness person had thing fixed to them by a trainer and I was arsenic shocked arsenic anyone. I was the caput coach, backmost past I didn't judge it, but what americium I expected to know? Players fixed supplements and worldly is not my country but if I'm their manager I request to instrumentality power of that.

"I was young, I was bullish and each I wanted to bash was triumph and astir apt made immoderate atrocious decisions, evidently I did.

"The full happening successful that period, a batch of radical were suspended, determination was shot managers, determination was trainers and each that benignant of worldly and the nine re-signed maine for 3 years, the nine had religion successful what I was doing.

"I sat retired six months successful 2014 and 2015, we won each (junior) competition, SG Ball, Harold Matthews - we won each contention due to the fact that during that play I acceptable up a operation that I wanted to person successful spot and it reaped its rewards.

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"Obviously we won successful 2016, went adjacent successful 2015 ... I cognize I tin coach, I cognize I tin acceptable a nine up for agelong word success."

Whoever does instrumentality implicit the Dragons volition look to rescue the NRL nine from a bid of seasons without finals appearances, having not made the apical 8 since 2018.

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Phil Gould believes it's not conscionable the coaching relation that the Dragons request to address.

"There are different aspects of the Dragons to get retired of wherever they are and backmost successful to being consistently competitory and consistently successful," helium said connected Nine's 100% Footy.

"There's a full scope of things that merged nine request to code and it's arsenic elemental arsenic that, it's not a coaching issue, a manager can't lick each the issues they request to enactment on."

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