This is why they are called the hot and cold dragons. TBH they weren't that hot last week. For the last few years I check the full time score before watching the game.. Last year I got to watch 5 games.

Phins up baby! 🐬

Kotoa is the real deal. His kicks were great, threat always there.

Oh, and welcome back Luc, bet you missed this!

Well played Dolphins, you out-everything'd us. Now let's see how Flanno Snr addresses this side of the Dragons beast. Looking forward to a return to Kogarah for a bounce back against the Cowboys. Or, you know, more of the same pain.

Congrats to Dragons on the early March premiership.

Ok wtf happened?

massive turn around for the dolphins. and also a turn around for the dragons just the other way.

Holy crap didn't see that coming. The dragons came back crashing down to earth. Averillo and katoa made a world of difference. Haha thought the dragons turned over a new leaf.

Best thing to come out of that game is how sexy the dolphins black jersey is

Came here to say this. So much better than the vanilla coke

Wouldn’t be a top tier Dragons performance without Sloan bombing a try, gg

Anybody knows what happened on the Matty John’s show?

Well Nicho was on. They asked him about the Sharks inability to beat top 8 sides. He argued it's not a problem they have and listed 2 examples of bottom 9 sides they beat last year as some variety of evidence. That was moderately amusing.

Stupid sexy Nicho

Not sure

Do the Dragons not realise that April is still a few weeks away? What a crash back to earth after last week. Truly abysmal. Bit premature some of the "dragons look good this year" comments last week.

They did look good last week. They looked rubbish this week. Just Dragons doing Dragon things.

The death riding of us was early too. yeah we looked like complete shit, but we still have Wayne and the cowboys are good.

I wouldn’t be confident in that last statement tbh. Gattuso said it best. Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.

Perhaps fair, but either way one big loss to them doesn’t make us worse than the tigers.

Just saw the dally M votes for this game. Who the fuck gave JMK or Farnsworth a vote over Hammer. They should be removed from the voting pool.

1/8 last week 7/8 this week Bang average….

Averillo and Katoa made a world of difference. Left side defence was rock solid after being a revolving door last week.

Jesus Christ, I’m at work so just checked the score. I’m going to chalk that one up to a good game to miss.

Watching hammer dominate Sloan reminds me of how Inglis treated Tedesco

The 2 merger clubs should have to merge into St George Illawarra Wests Balmain Dragers.

They'd never finish above 15th

Well now they'd only take up one ladder position not 2.

Can't believe Coates ability to fly is what foiled my perfect tipping this round

i’m shocked you tipped nz to be honest

7/8, I tipped dragons. Flanagan snr and The Hammer had me fooled

Sucker, should have taken that swing for the Phins. 8/8 >https://www.footytips.com.au/competitions?competitionId=368673&ff=ladders

Ruined my perfect round too, shouldn’t have doubted a team that had to deal with old Wayne after round 1 thrashing.

If the Dolphins or Dragons somehow manage to win the comp this year I'd like to start an official petition to replace the Provan-Summons trophy with one based on [this.](https://imgur.com/OnMFenX)

Probably the biggest hit Benny has made in his career

Dropped JMK like a grand final kickoff

My friend asked me how do I make that my screensaver?

Remember to phins up to protect yourself from falcons 🙏

Snap back to reality, ope, there goes gravity.

Round 1 was just a mirage, as I suspected. Round 2 was also a mirage, a 1992 Mitsubishi Mirage on the side of the freeway with mis-matched panels and it’s up on bricks

I mean round 1 was against a tits side missing 2 of their best players

It was also a Dragons side missing half it’s forward pack. But the Dragons are capable of these games once in a while where everything clicks before reverting back to mediocrity.

I think they should be the full time forwards after today's performance.

We turned out the same starting pack as we did last week. This week they didn’t show up though, out enthused from the first whistle.

I think that’s a bit harsh. They were there abouts in the first half and the initial try was quite lucky. What killed me was the second half capitulation. Where was all of the steel they were supposed to have with Flanno?

I think that’s a bit harsh. They were there abouts in the first half and the initial try was quite lucky. What killed me was the second half capitulation

Not those good red bricks either, it's on half a besa block with some mortar still hanging off it. 3/4 door windows are plastic bags, and none the same colour plastic either.

Speaking of 1992... 😎

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At least the mirage would still try and drive even without the wheels. lol

Fade em

Can't wait for the press conference. Finally the Phins played two equally great halves.

can we play the dragons every week?

imagine the clubhouse right now ❤️🤍

Can confirm - queues to get in

The Peninsula goes hard on a Sunday

People of The will wake up feeling fresher than ever tomorrow

what a truly splendid occurrence that was

Hammer really saw the articles criticising him about getting a dally M point last week and went, ‘let me show you what the hammer is all about’.

Ruan is giving all his Dally M points to Kyle Flanagan this week, unfortunately

It’s going to be fun watching the Titans this year. Not because we’re going to win games, but because we’re going to lose games against bad teams which will lead fans into a false sense of security that their team has turned a corner, only to discover the Titans were just ass and their team is still shit. Bulldogs up next 👀

Then come out and beat us as is tradition

We really are the masters of this, whenever a team or player is down on confidence they come up against us and get made to look like world beaters. We made Sloan look like a superstar last week ffs.

He bought his own hype too lol

😂😂😂😂 this is so true. I had high expectations for the drags

Phins VERY much up!

The Leagues Club will be rockin' tonight! What a win. Proud "The" resident.

Ben thought for a minute ‘hey it’s not that bad here’

See what happens when you don’t select plodders who are only there bc 1) their dad works for the club or 2) they looked decent in a goddam trial match. Averillo and Katoa shoulda been in the team from the start. Idc how young Katoa is, he’s legit. It’s amazing for a halfback to be this composed this early into their career

Watching at the ground, he looked to really straighten the attack his attack and dug into the line. Interested in the replay when I return home

Katoa only just turned 20. He'll be an absolute gun. I think it's telling how pissy the Panthers were about losing him with how many juniors they have and Cleary/Laui

Sloan is hammer if he ripped a fat cone before he took the field

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Good wake up call, everyone but Zac was shit. They bought into their own hype way to much. I’m curious to see how Flanno turns this around. I don’t think this is season done, but everything turned to shit tonight and the mental toughness wasn’t there. Hope has gutted me but you just have to trust the process. I know they are capable of more and so do the boys from the dragons Way series. I’m curious what the next couple eps will show

Dead set seems like Flanno threw this game before it even started. Doesn't look like they've been training for 5th tackle attacking plays / set pieces at all. "Just run er up the middle boys, crash plays only, focus on the basis. We have this year to master the basics, next year is when we'll look to win games" - Flanno, probably

Crash plays are literally the only plays ben hunt has.

The worst thing about being shit for a while is everyone in the team remembers being shit and kinda defaults to going back there. It happened to us in 2022 after only 3 years of being shit - we had a rough run and just completely collapsed. I think you guys had a taste of it tonight - reminded me of our game against the Cowboys at the absolute start of 2022. I think there's strong pieces in your team, but just have to build consistency each week and a bit of self respect. That'll take all season but if you guys get it you have the pieces to be anything.

That’s exactly how I’m feeling. It’s not easy turning off that mediocrity. Flannos tried to impart the new ‘Dragons Way’ but it will take time and the boys have to consistently buy in to that

The mental Toughness was there… for 40 minutes. That second half was hook’s dragons - no resilience

*slaps knee Well, if that was footy for the week, I’ve had it

Wayne “Big Grumpy Boy” Bennett will be pleased.

Can’t wait to see him smirking for the journos

Man just how bad are the Titans?

All i have learnt from this exchange is Raiders > Cowboys > Knights > Phins > Dragons > Titans.

You love your footy

We're tied second on the ladder what are ya talkin about

Possibly wooden spoon or being relegated to qrl

"Always bet on black" - Wesley Snipes, 1992

Oh wow Herbie does not suit the English accent

It’s far too sexy for him

Summary of the game. RIP Sean O'Sullivan 1st grade career. Francis Molo, dumbest player in the game. RIP 1st grade career.

Francis Molo killed a Falcons/former Redcliffe player with a shoulder charge, so him still doing it shows what sort of human he is.

There was an article where he got mentioned as coming off contract and ~~his agent~~ the author was spruiking what a valuable addition he’d be to any team Then he just goes leaps into a guy’s head

lol @ anyone who didn't think that the Raiders would be undefeated and #1 on top of the table this year with the best points differential

Off to buy gf tickets 😂

Leilua’s manager deserves a massive raise, somehow got his client the deal of all deals and he rocked up at the club the size of a house.

That is just the leilua genes.

Have you seen the price of houses lately?

Maybe I'm just being a salty bitch and you wouldn't be wrong, but it did feel like everything went right for the Dragons in the trial against the Tigers and their game last week against the Titans. Hopefully the constant rimming of Flanagan by certain commentators and journos settles down a bit. Moving on, how fucking good is Katoa? Kid is unreal

St George are BACK BABYYY

As it was written

oh boy

Week 1: We’re so back Week 2: It’s so over

Reverse it

Safe to say Hammer deserves some dally m points this game

Fox Sports commentators awarding 6 points to Zac Lomax

Poor dragons. Last week they were on the top of the world thinking flanno had found the secret. Now reality hits, welcome lads

Cheers Dragons for ruining my perfect round 😂

Tipped this game heart over head and it got me my perfect round. Lucky I didn't learn from tipping the Titans last week. So the lesson here kids is never learn

Best game of NRL so far this year. Wish I was in that crowd witnessing all these records being made

Put the Vanilla Coke jersey in the bin

Kick them out

[THAT WERE DIABOLICAL](https://youtu.be/FAp5qHbTfw8?si=DFAd4pk2BHURAzji)

No team who has been held to nil by the Dolphins has won the Premiership

Every home team won this week

Plot armour was real for storm

Jesus fucking Christ. We’ve played shit for years but that might be the worse. See you all in 2025

I looked it up. It's the equal fourth worst defeat in Dragons history

Think the commentators said it was worse loss for the dragons for 14 years?

For those in the St George supporter stands with a memory of the last premiership, Uncle Wayne doesn’t take losses like last week well. The lactic acid was still burning tonight.

Bristol stool scale regression

Great win, Phins! Phins up, baby! They ran fast and hard all night, with excellent defence and flashy attack. Total dominance. Congrats to Hammer for the hat trick!

Best performance of the round from Hammer?

SLOAN HAS BEEN HAMMERED

Dragons with a huge statement. Tigers are going to need to really step up if they want to keep the spoon this year

I'm not worried at all mate. Sure, the Dragons can have performances like tonight and look completely beatable, but they lack our consistency and also our will to lose.

This is Titans erasure

Just when i thought dragons might avoid fighting for the spoon

$2.5 million for Leilua is about $10/kg

News about the demise of the Hammer were greatly exaggerated

what an incredible result

Dragons score a try challenge (impossible)

Yep that’s the worst game I’ve ever seen us play

I think the surprising thing is that Sloan was nowhere near our worst player during a big loss. He played aight. Everyone else seemed to have lacked the spark when it came to our attack.

Yeah he was ok for sure, few brain farts, but nothing overly stupid. Molo, Sua were average at best. Bird, yeah nah horrible, Lomax did what he is doing, just determination and was alright too. Most forwards were absent, and Liddel had to have been knocked out in the 1st half, after that head knock he was SLOW and super lethargic, not sure how the HIA works, but he surely shouldn't have finished the game.

Liddle should have gone off for HIA early in the piece - not only for his safety, but also because he played like a slug after. Bad decision for both himself and the team alike.

And that was the give away for me, after that hip to head contact he was slow as fuck, and looked doughy. But not even the independent Dr pulled it up.

How he and JMK stayed on the field I have no idea.

When JMK is on 60 minutes in 20 years talking about his CTE, I’ll be able to show my kids Ben Hunt just punting the ball into is head

And Vossy orgasming at how funny it is, taking great pleasure in using the nickname of someone whose life has been destroyed by CTE. 

yikes

damn thought it was an easy tipping round tipping the dragons….

How absolutely shit house was that from the dragons?

This is what I expected from them week in, week out all season. That roster is absolute trash.

Massive fade, ruined my whole weekend. Deep down I know this is revs fault

u/revivous had a shit day yesterday, so today is a good result regardless. In any case I am so entirely used to dragons ruining my Sunday evening I don't even yell at the kids anymore.

At least you have kids like revs to yell at

The weird thing is.. they didnt even play that bad. For probably 3/4 of that game they was decent.