Shane Flanagan | May 22, 2024 | Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion

Dragons coach Shane Flanagan speaks on Jack de Belin's future. Video: Dragons Media

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00:00 I trust you that we are one of the leading clubs in players off contract, but me and

00:06 you coming into the club, I've challenged the playing group to challenge themselves

00:12 and live up to new standards. Some of the players have been here for a long period of

00:16 time and we haven't had success, so we've got to look at that and do I have to change

00:21 the people within the organisation? I'm giving them every opportunity to make sure that they

00:27 want to be here and the right people to be here and we're going to take this club forward

00:30 and win football games, play semifinals and so on. I won't be rushed into those things,

00:37 but a lot of those players are slowly, Tyrell Sloan, Jack DeBellin, we saw Jadon Sewer on

00:43 the weekend. I'd like to think in time they all get ticked off and we get a really good

00:47 squad and move forward as a club.

00:49 Would you like to see Jack here? The understanding was that he probably wanted a longer term

00:54 deal, where's that at?

00:56 I definitely want Jack here. That's a challenge as a club to keep him here. Whether he's

01:03 here for one year, two years, three years, four years, that's up to Jack. Obviously

01:09 the club's got a bit of part to do with that, but form always helps. Playing good

01:13 footy always helps.

01:14 With Tyrell as well, where's he at with things?

01:18 I'd like to think we're getting really close to that one.