They went down 20-12 as the Dragons continued a horror four-game losing streak, still yet to win since the now-infamous barbecue at Paul Vaughan's house.<\/p>\n
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While Sterling understood that Griffin had been forced to experiment by the raft of suspensions handed down following the barbecue, he found it difficult to understand Bird's move to fullback.<\/p>\n
Yet even after an unsuccessful first showing, Griffin has stuck with the move, naming Bird at fullback again<\/a> for Friday's clash with the Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n "Jack Bird at fullback was an interesting one. I don't see that being a long-term one," Sterling told Wide World of Sports' Sterlo's Wrap<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n "I have great respect for Anthony Griffin as a coach and I know that he's gone through a difficult period as to who he's had and who he hasn't, but he needs to either come up with Matt Dufty or Tyrell Sloan at fullback, and players in positions that they're going to play for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n "There's been a lot \u2013 and I know he hasn't had a choice (because of BBQ-gate) \u2013 but there's been some unusual selections, I suppose."<\/p>\n Bird's shift to fullback comes at the cost of promising youngster Tyrell Sloan who got an opportunity in recent weeks ahead of Bulldogs-bound speedster Matt Dufty<\/a>.<\/p>\n A horror run home will only cause more headaches for Griffin and his Dragons with the likes of the Panthers, Roosters, Cowboys and Rabbitohs all standing between them and a fading finals berth.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rugby league legend Peter Sterling is unconvinced by St George Illawarra coach Anthony Griffin's fullback experiment with Jack Bird, urging the veteran coach to look […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114648,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114646\/revisions\/114648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NRL](\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/08\/373575\/pickerimage.jpg\")
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