The St George Illawarra Dragons became the NRL’s first joint venture club after a merger between the Illawarra Steelers and the St George Dragons in 1998. The merged club enjoyed early success, making two Grand Finals, winning a premiership and missing the finals only three times in their first 13 years. Since that period however they’ve featured in the finals just once.
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St George-Illawarra enjoyed a strong start to 2017, winning six of their first seven games. While the Dragons spluttered somewhat after that point, they still were on track for a finals berth before an unthinkable final-round loss to the Bulldogs saw them relegated to ninth.
Senior coach: Paul McGregor
Captain: Gareth Widdop
2017 finish: 9th
Premierships: 2010
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2018 Team List
Leeson Ah Mau, Euan Aitken, Mitchell Allgood, Jack de Belin, Matthew Dufty, Ben Hunt, Jai Field, Jackson Ford, Tyson Frizell, Reuben Garrick, James Graham, Patrick Herbert, Jacob Host, Josh Kerr, Timoteo Lafai, Jeremy Latimore, Blake Lawrie, Luciano Leilua, Zac Lomax, Nene Macdonald, Kurt Mann, Steven Marsters, Cameron McInnes, Darren Nicholls, Jason Nightingale, Jordan Pereira, Reece Robson, Tristan Sailor, Hame Sele, Tariq Sims, Joel Thompson, Paul Vaughan, Gareth Widdop
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