The 17-season history of the NRL’s struggling St George Illawarra Dragons shows the gaping chasm between hype and realityFor a while there you wondered if the beleaguered St George Illawarra Dragons should forgo bananas and ban pineapple on their burgers and pizzas. Queensland had not been kind to them,and it seemed that forgoing tropical fruit was the only way the Dragons could strike back: choose that, Queensland!But in Saturday’s twilight game the sun set on their woes and, or after consecutive away losses to Brisbane and North Queensland (by 36-0 and 26-0 respectively),Paul McGregor’s team managed to rack up 18 first-half points before holding off the Gold Coast Titans, 19-14. You wouldn’t say that the Dragons had emphatically fixed their attacking problems – like their baffling inclination to rush one out and their predilection (preference or preferred way of doing something) to drift sideways in attack – but for the club and its fans it was a welcome respite from a fortnight of being compared to vasectomy survivors.
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Source: theguardian.com