WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT
The coaching saga at the St George Illawarra Dragons has today taken another strange turn.
After having their number one coaching target turn down their offer a few weeks ago, the south coast rugby league conglomerate had been keen to lock in another high profile NRL figure.
That looked to have been achieved yesterday, when the Dragons revealed they’d signed Shane Flanagan to the top job.
However, the media was shocked to learn this morning that the offer to Flanagan has been revoked, after club figures discovered that Flanagan has never been charged with a criminal offence.
“It was an oversight on our part,” sighed an official from one of the NRL’s flagship clubs.
“We didn’t realise that all the supplement stuff and coaching bans were just NRL related.”
The official said that they assumed that there was at-least one criminal charge in the middle of all that.
“We fucked up,” said the official.
Famous around rugby league circles for their misbehaviour, the Dragons have a policy that dictates that all players and coaching staff must have at least one criminal charge or conviction to hold a role at the club.
“Unfortunately we now have to explore other possibilities for our head coach role,” sighed the official.
As a result, Flanagan will now continue providing a voice of reason on Fox Sports for the foreseeable future.
More to come.
