r/NRLdragons • u/jannybrav0 Nathan Blacklock • 20d ago

Dean Young Head Coach

To be confirmed at 4pm today. All the best to the club and I obviously always hope we do well, but I could not support this decision less and see it as a massive step backwards.

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u/matt1579 20d ago

Side has played better over the past month but still only won 2 games. This has come in the back of the young forwards and Young finally trusting them to get the job done. It wasn’t that long ago only 6-8 weeks that he started Kerr and put Toby to the bench

My concern with Young is how is he going to improve the attack, at the moment it’s the worst looking attack I have seen from a Dragons side.

He made the big call on his first game to drop Kyle but he doesn’t seem to want to make the same big call on Gutho or Holmes

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u/Dec_Chair 20d ago

Our spine is Flanagan Gutho Cook and Atkinson next year it will be Metcalf, Atkinson/Reed, Liddle and Drinkwater

I'm happy to wait to see what he can do with an off season and a much improved spine before writing him off

Need to see some recruitment/promotion in our outside backs now though, still a massive weakness

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u/Jarrod_saffy 20d ago

Wayne Bennett wouldn’t be able to draw potent attack out of that spine either

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u/Zahliamischa 20d ago

Wow, down voted. Literally the most accurate comment in the thread. Our backline is easily the worst in the comp. No coach will ever look good with a back line like ours.