{"id":304251,"date":"2023-06-05T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=304251"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:00:16","slug":"flanagan-bristles-at-dragons-interview-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=304251","title":{"rendered":"Flanagan bristles at Dragons interview prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Premiership-winning NRL coach Shane Flanagan<\/a> has revealed his manager is in talks about a return to the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> as the club's head coach.<\/p>\n

Currently at Manly as an assistant, Flanagan has long been touted for a number of head coaching roles and appears to be one of the front runners for the Dragons job after Jason Ryles rejected the position<\/a>.<\/p>\n

"I\ufeff'll just let it unfold, that's what you have managers for and hopefully something happens and gets done but at this stage I haven't had any communication with the Dragons, my manager has and that's the way I'll leave it," he told 2GB's Wide World of Sports Radio.<\/p>\n

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When asked if he'd go through an interview process, Flanagan stated "I don't think I need to", but admitted he'd have to discuss matters with the club after Ryles' decision. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"I think I'd need to talk to their board and CEO (Ryan Webb) and they'd have a lot of questions for me and I'd have a lot of questions of them, and we need to go through that process definitely for sure," he said.<\/p>\n

"Obviously Jason had some concerns when he went there and pulled out last minute … as I said there's a lot of water to go under the bridge, hopefully it doesn't take too long if it's going to happen but I'll leave it to my manager … but I don't think I need to go through an interview process.<\/p>\n

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"Obviously the club would know what I've done in the game, I've coached at NRL level for eight years, won a competition, obviously everyone talks about I've had a suspension but I learnt so much from that period and I'm a better person, better coach … if the Dragons are interested, we'll chat."<\/p>\n

After winning the competition in 2016 with Cronulla, Flanagan was de-registered by the NRL in 2019<\/a> for failing to adhere to the conditions of a suspension in 2014\ufeff after the Sharks' supplements saga.<\/p>\n

The former Dragons player was eligible to be a head coach last year and could now make his return with the joint venture. \ufeff<\/p>\n

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Flanagan opened up on the suspensions he served during his time at Cronulla, and revealed his role in trying to stamp out the performance enhancing drugs situation. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"It was a really dark day in rugby league, I'm not making any excuses for it … obviously we got a rogue person in the club and when I found out about it I got rid of him two weeks later," he explained.<\/p>\n

\"SYDNEY,<\/p>\n

"Then two years later they came knocking on our door saying the players might have had something given to them by a trainer and I was as shocked as anyone. I was the head coach, back then I didn't accept it, but what am I supposed to know? Players given supplements and stuff is not my area but if I'm their coach I need to take control of that.<\/p>\n

"I was young, I was bullish and all I wanted to do was win and probably made some bad decisions, obviously I did.<\/p>\n

"The whole thing in that period, a lot of people were suspended, there was football managers, there was trainers and all that sort of stuff and the club re-signed me for three years, the club had faith in what I was doing.<\/p>\n

"I sat out six months in 2014 and 2015, we won every (junior) competition, SG Ball, Harold Matthews – we won every competition because during that period I set up a structure that I wanted to have in place and it reaped its rewards.<\/p>\n

\"Gus<\/p>\n

"Obviously we won in 2016, went close in 2015 … I know I can coach, I know I can set a club up for long term success."<\/p>\n

Whoever does take over the Dragons will look to rescue the NRL club from a series of seasons without finals appearances, having not made the top eight since 2018.<\/p>\n

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Phil Gould believes it's not just the coaching role that the Dragons need to address. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"There are other aspects of the Dragons to get out of where they are and back in to being consistently competitive and consistently successful," he said on Nine's 100% Footy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"There's a whole range of things that merged club need to address and it's as simple as that, it's not a coaching issue, a coach can't solve all the issues they need to work on\ufeff."<\/p>\n

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