St George Illawarra Dragons odds

The 2020 NRL season was another rough one for the St George Illawarra Dragons, who finished 12th on the ladder and missed the finals for the seventh time in nine years.

With Anthony Griffin now at the helm, can the Red V put together a complete campaign this time around? Let’s see where they stand in the latest NRL betting markets.

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Updated Dragons futures odds

Best St George Illawarra bets for NRL 2021

There are dozens of NRL futures markets for the Dragons, but where are they likely to return some real value?

Click on the tabs below to get more analysis on these markets:

• Dragons 2021 premiership betting
  Depending on your perspective, the Dragons are either the hardest or the easiest team to gauge. With a new coach at the helm after another disappointing season, who knows what the Red V will deliver in 2021? That said, we can just about rule out any realistic tilt at the premiership.
  
• Top 8 betting
  A premiership might be beyond St George Illawarra’s reach this season, but can Anthony Griffin lift this team into finals contention? The Dragons possess plenty of star power, but do they have a winning mentality? There needs to be a massive culture shift within the club, and we might not see the fruits of that labour for another season or two.
  
• Top pointscorer betting
  While the likes of Nathan Cleary and Adam Reynolds are obvious frontrunners in the NRL 2021 top pointscorer market, St George Illawarra’s Zac Lomax is a promising outside chance. He converted at 79 percent last season, which wasn’t far off big names like Cleary (80%) and Mitchell Moses (81%).
  

2021 St George Illawarra draw

Dragons players to watch in 2021

Paul Vaughan
Born: 23/4/1991
Games: 165
Tries: 28
Position: Prop

There were a few disappointments for Paul Vaughan last season, but perhaps the most striking is that he went the entire campaign without scoring a single try. The NSW prop is usually a dangerous outlet on the front row, and he will hope to rediscover his scoring touch in 2021.

Ben Hunt
Born: 27/3/1990
Games: 252
Tries: 61
Position: Halfback, hooker

Is this guy worth $1.2 million a year? Now entering his fourth season in the red and white, Ben Hunt still has a few critics to silence. Whether he plays hooker or halfback, St George Illawarra’s new captain needs to deliver a lot more than he has done so far.

Corey Norman
Born: 3/2/1991
Games: 208
Tries: 34
Position: Five-eighth

A talented trouble-magnet, Corey Norman made a decent fist of his first two seasons at St George Illawarra. After another incident-filled preseason, the Queenslander will have to keep delivering on the field in 2021 if he is to secure a new contract.

St George Illawarra records and stats

• Player records
  Most games: 273 – Ben Hornby and Ben Creagh
  Most career points: 977 – Jamie Soward
  Most points in a season: 234 – Jamie Soward (2009)
  Most career tries: 124 – Matt Cooper
  Most tries in a season: 27 – Nathan Blacklock (2001)
  Most points in a match: 22 – Gareth Widdop, Jamie Soward, Amos Roberts
  
• Team records
  Most consecutive wins: Nine (2011)
  Most consecutive losses: Six (2013)
  Biggest winning margin: 54-0 (vs. Warriors, 2000)
  Biggest losing margin: 10-70 (vs. Storm, 2000)
  
• Dragons NRL history
  Founded in 1998 and playing their first season the following year, the St George Illawarra Dragons are a joint venture between two clubs with very different legacies.

  St George were a powerhouse of the NSWRL. They won 15 premierships between 1924 and 1998, including a record 11 in a row during the ’50s and ’60s. By the time the National Rugby League was formed, only South Sydney had won more first-grade flags than the Dragons.

  The Illawarra Steelers were rugby league’s whipping boys. They won the wooden spoon three times in 17 years of top-flight footy and reached the playoffs only twice, never once playing in a grand final or winning a premiership.

  As the ’90s wore on and the NRL sprang into the existence, it became apparent the Steelers could not survive on their own. Seeing an opportunity to expand both their fanbase and their junior ranks, the Dragons stumped up the bulk of the cash for a new team that encompassed both the swish Sydney suburbs of St George and the working-class coastal region of Illawarra.
  

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