{"id":368446,"date":"2024-02-17T10:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T11:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=368446"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:02:28","slug":"hunt-reveals-key-to-solving-dragons-halves-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=368446","title":{"rendered":"Hunt reveals key to solving Dragons halves issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"St George Illawarra Dragons\">St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> halfback <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/ben-hunt\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Ben Hunt\">Ben Hunt<\/a> has revealed the adjustments he has to make if his partnership with five-eighth <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/kyle-flanagan\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Kyle Flanagan\">Kyle Flanagan<\/a> is going to work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/trials-live-scores-2024-pre-season-week-1-knights-sharks-roosters-sea-eagles-eels-raiders-rabbitohs-dragons-results-updates-latest-news\/5df90266-cc06-4b09-bf6b-67d83b28bc67\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Hunt featured against the Rabbitohs for 40 minutes in a dire opening half of the Charity Shield\">Hunt featured against the Rabbitohs for 40 minutes in a dire opening half of the Charity Shield<\/a> \ufeffwith the score 6-6 at the break thanks to late tries from Jacob Host and Mikaele Ravalawa.<\/p>\n<p>The opening stanza was the first chance Dragons fans had to see the new-look combination for the club, after <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-talatau-junior-amone-assault-court-case-st-george-illawarra-dragons-deregistered\/57361a5f-7309-4d8e-b8a3-f325af3dd972\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"former five-eighth Junior Amone was deregistered over an off-field incident\">former five-eighth Junior Amone was deregistered over an off-field incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/games-paris-2024-sailing-windsurfing-iqfoil-grae-morris-rugby-all-blacks-exclusive\/ed824c4e-ec9c-4fda-acbb-ebea310335d1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"How All Blacks dream made way for Aussie&#x27;s rise to Olympics\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>How All Blacks dream made way for Aussie&#x27;s rise to Olympics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2024-dominic-young-injury-sydney-roosters-manly-sea-eagles\/5c6f75f1-6195-448b-9ace-eb9d4b09ebe9\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Dominic Young sent to hospital with neck injury\"><strong>Dominic Young sent to hospital with neck injury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\ufeff<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/the-mole-2024-news-canterbury-bulldogs-best-17-team-round-one\/3da11a84-fc0f-46c9-b8d1-c4c839a2ebe0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>&#x27;Sharper and faster&#x27;: Positive signs as Doggies chase &#x27;mojo&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without setting the world on fire, the Dragons showed promise in the first half and Hunt believes it&#x27;s on him to ensure his new partnership grows.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"deb7923d-8713-4019-805e-0d17ffda7665\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/deb7923d-8713-4019-805e-0d17ffda7665\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I\ufeff think for me, I&#x27;ve probably got to learn to trust him a bit more to get us around, he&#x27;s a bit more of a halfback, Kyle, and he can call direction and get us around,&quot; he told Fox League.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;So I&#x27;ve got to, not take a back seat, but have faith he can do that as well and I can play off that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>After the first half, and the interchange of a number of players, the Rabbitohs managed to take control over the Dragons with Braidon Burns scoring a second-half double.<\/p>\n<p>Davvy Moale and Richard Kennar also earned themselves four-pointers to deliver the Rabbitohs a 28-6 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The win makes it two <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/charity-shield\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Charity Shield\">Charity Shield<\/a> victories in a row for Souths, having defeated the Dragons 42-24 last year. \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>St George Illawarra Dragons halfback Ben Hunt has revealed the adjustments he has to make if his partnership with five-eighth Kyle Flanagan is going to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=368446\" title=\"Hunt reveals key to solving Dragons halves issue\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368448,"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\/368446"}],"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=368446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368449,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368446\/revisions\/368449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/368448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}