{"id":328997,"date":"2023-09-07T00:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T00:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=328997"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T04:04:03","slug":"maligned-bulldog-on-the-move-as-fathers-wish-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=328997","title":{"rendered":"Maligned Bulldog on the move as father&#039;s wish revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/kyle-flanagan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Kyle Flanagan\">Kyle Flanagan<\/a> is set to join his father and coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/shane-flanagan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Shane\">Shane<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Dragons\">Dragons<\/a> after St George Illawarra tabled him a two-year deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/kyle-flanagan-poised-to-join-father-shane-at-dragons-20230907-p5e2o1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"reports The Sydney Morning Herald\">reports The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old played his last game for <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/canterbury-bulldogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Canterbury\">Canterbury<\/a> against the Gold Coast Titans on Sunday and is among a raft of players departing the Bulldogs after their awful season.<\/p>\n<p>The signing will give the Dragons more back-up at halfback and hooker and help Shane, who&#x27;s set to begin a three-year deal with St George Illawarra.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIVE UPDATES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/us-open-2023-live-results-scores-day-ten-zheng-sabalenka-medvedev-rublev-vondrousova-keys-alcaraz-zverev\/44477fa6-3227-42ed-b7db-10e2ba5d6e63\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>US Open 2023 day ten scores and results<\/strong><\/a><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/paralympics-paris-games-2024-nine-network-expert-commentators-ian-thorpe-steve-hooker-cadel-evans\/2e2cfd37-b164-468a-ad05-8dc372a1866a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Nine unveils bumper commentary team for Paris 2024<\/strong><\/a><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: \ufeff<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/world-cup-2023-all-rugby-world-cup-squads-full-list\/6759cb2c-0b40-446f-832a-7faba526071c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Fiji&#x27;s World Cup rocked by &#x27;devastating&#x27; news<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dragons have already let go young playmaker Jayden Sullivan, who inked a four-year deal with Wests Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle\ufeff is about to take up a stint with his fourth NRL club, having already played at the Roosters, Bulldogs and Sharks, where he made his NRL debut under his father.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle played nine NRL games with the Sharks across 2018 and 2019\ufeff, before leaving for the Roosters because he was stuck behind Shaun Johnson and Chad Townsend.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"17df9a78-8afb-4067-a64f-86758643284f\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/17df9a78-8afb-4067-a64f-86758643284f\" alt=\"Kyle Flanagan.\" data-width=\"3102\" data-height=\"1745\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He had a solid season with the Tricolours in 2020,\ufeff scoring the third-highest number of points in the competition and helping the Roosters to a top-four berth while filling the massive boots of Cooper Cronk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stream the NRL premiership 2023 live and free on<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.app.link\/NGHBKQkVweb\"><strong>9Now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But he was offloaded from the Roosters to the Bulldogs because of the emergence of the prodigious Sam Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan&#x27;s time at the Bulldogs then proved patchy with the \ufeffplaymaker being dropped from the first-grade side and being shifted between halfback, hooker and the bench.<\/p>\n<p>In his time at Canterbury, the Bulldogs finished last in 2021, 12th in 2022 and 15th in 2023.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>He&#x27;s now set to join a club that hasn&#x27;t played finals footy since 2018.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Kyle Flanagan is set to join his father and coach Shane at the Dragons after St George Illawarra tabled him a two-year deal, reports The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=328997\" title=\"Maligned Bulldog on the move as father&#039;s wish revealed\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291932,"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\/328997"}],"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=328997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328999,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328997\/revisions\/328999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}