{"id":306298,"date":"2023-06-09T22:05:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T22:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=306298"},"modified":"2023-06-10T02:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T02:58:33","slug":"joey-torches-dragons-over-ryles-road-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=306298","title":{"rendered":"Joey torches Dragons over Ryles road block"},"content":{"rendered":"

League icon Andrew Johns<\/a> says "questions need to be asked" over what led to Jason Ryles<\/a>' 11th-hour backflip on joining the Dragons<\/a> as their new head coach.<\/p>\n

Ryles was widely expected to be the full-time successor to Anthony Griffin, but backflipped at the last minute, instead joining the Melbourne Storm<\/a> as an assistant.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Wide World of Sports' Freddy and The Eighth<\/em><\/a>, Johns was highly critical of the Dragons for losing out on Ryles, suggesting he should've been given whatever he required in order to sign as the club's next coach.<\/p>\n

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"\ufeffHe was going to sign, something is wrong there," he said.<\/p>\n

\"Sydney<\/p>\n

"He wanted something in the clause … He's the boss, whatever he asked (for) he should've been given, whether it was about his staff or his recruitment or whatever.<\/p>\n

"Questions have got to be asked from within the Dragons how they buggered this one up.<\/p>\n

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"Jason Ryles played for the Dragons, he lives down there, he wanted to do it. How they stuffed up this one, questions need to be asked.<\/p>\n

"I think he pretty much agreed; that's what it looks like from the outside. He's then gone in and said to them, 'Well, I want this', and they've said, 'You're not getting that'."<\/p>\n

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To make matters worse for the Dragons, talisman Ben Hunt could leave the club if he's forced to play the No.9 role full-time.<\/p>\n

Johns said he understood where the 33-year-old was coming from.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffBen Hunt is 32. Does he want to play the last two years of his career playing hooker? No chance," he said.<\/p>\n

"At this stage of his career, you look at Origin footy and his rep career, hooker is his spot, (but) at clubland playing 26 rounds week-in, week-out at 32, that's a big, big challenge."<\/p>\n

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