{"id":84900,"date":"2021-06-14T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=84900"},"modified":"2021-06-14T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:56:59","slug":"norman-shown-the-door-by-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=84900","title":{"rendered":"Norman shown the door by Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Norman has been told by the St George Illawarra Dragons he is not wanted in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time as kick-off for the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/canterbury-bankstown-bulldogs-v-st-george-illawarra-dragons-nrl-telstra-premiership-2021\/321148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Bulldogs v Dragons \">Bulldogs v Dragons<\/a> game today &#8211; Norman&#x27;s 50th NRL game for the club &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/dragons-inform-corey-norman-he-won-t-be-at-club-next-season-20210614-p580xh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sydney Morning Herald\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> reported that he was informed last week he would not have a spot in the team next year.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Dragons Jayden Sullivan and Junior Amone are two players possibly next in line to be five-eighth, set to duel it out in pre-season next year to claim the starting role alongside halfback Ben Hunt. The Dragons also have the option of Jack Bird who has played in the position at past clubs.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"94469039-9adf-4dfe-ad3e-c9119726ee3a\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/94469039-9adf-4dfe-ad3e-c9119726ee3a\" alt=\"Corey Norman\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Herald<\/em> report claims that even though coach Anthony Griffin was open to Norman staying at the club, &quot;there was little support from others at the Dragons for the 219-game veteran to stick around&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragons no.6 has had a strong season in 2021, but over his three years with the Rev V, league legend Greg Alexander believes the the 30-year-old had not done enough to convince club bosses he was worth retaining.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That is big news. For Corey Norman, you can&#x27;t leave it till the last year of your contract to start showing some good form,&quot; Alexander said on Fox Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s played well this year but consistently over the term of his contract, I can understand why the Dragons want to look elsewhere.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Corey Norman has been told by the St George Illawarra Dragons he is not wanted in 2022. At the same time as kick-off for the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=84900\" title=\"Norman shown the door by Dragons\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/84900"}],"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=84900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84902,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84900\/revisions\/84902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}