{"id":308981,"date":"2023-06-17T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T06:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=308981"},"modified":"2023-06-17T06:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T06:58:39","slug":"hunt-set-to-defy-flanagan-with-massive-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=308981","title":{"rendered":"Hunt set to defy Flanagan with massive call"},"content":{"rendered":"

D\ufeffragons<\/a> star Ben Hunt<\/a> is set to request a release from the club despite the signing of Shane Flanagan<\/a> as the new head coach. <\/p>\n

Rumours of a Hunt exit had been rife in the weeks leading up to Flanagan's appointment as the full-time replacement for the sacked Anthony Griffin. Flanagan, the 2016 premiership winning coach, met with Hunt prior to his appointment<\/a> being made official.<\/p>\n

According to 9News Sydney's Danny Weidler<\/a>, Hunt, 32, remains unsettled and has "confided in his inner circle" about his desire to leave the club. <\/p>\n

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The shock report came just hours after Flanagan \ufeffsaid he would not let his captain break his contract early to join a rival club.<\/p>\n

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"Well, from a club's perspective Ben Hunt will be there," Flanagan told 2GB's The Continuous Call Team <\/em>on Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n

"He's got a contract, I spoke to Ben before I actually signed because I didn't want to obviously become the Dragons coach and then our halfback wanting out of the club, and he was fine with all that if I was to get the job.<\/p>\n

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"He's in Origin camp at the moment obviously, and I'm not going to worry him while he's in there, I'll get to him next week and I'm sure that's okay.<\/p>\n

"But from the club's perspective, he's our captain, he's our halfback and we need him, I won't be letting him go anywhere."<\/p>\n

Hunt has played 116 games for the Dragons since joining the club from the Broncos for the start of the 2018 season.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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D\ufeffragons star Ben Hunt is set to request a release from the club despite the signing of Shane Flanagan as the new head coach. Rumours […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305005,"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\/308981"}],"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=308981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308983,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308981\/revisions\/308983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/305005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}