Overview
- St George Illawarra are 0-4 and the NRL's only team without a competition point after an eight-game slide that began late last season.
- The club has moved into the $65 million Bruce Gordon Centre in Wollongong, a new base at the University of Wollongong designed to unite training, pathways, community programs and administration.
- Senior players defended the coaching staff and accepted blame for the slump, pointing to dropped balls, yardage penalties and second‑half lapses as fixable errors.
- Local reporting indicates Flanagan's position will be reviewed against results over the next four games, a stance shaped by Manly's early-season sacking of Anthony Seibold.
- The Dragons will face the Cowboys at Kogarah without five-eighth Kyle Flanagan, who the club says shows no lingering concussion signs after being knocked unconscious.