We're looking back at the five players we would love to bring back from the St George-Illawarra Dragons.
For those who have missed recent editions, we choose five former players who could return to the club to improve their chances of winning a title.
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The rules are similar to normal, being that we don't include current players who have moved clubs, or players who have retired in the past few seasons. These are players who I have seen in my lifetime, so anyone who played 30+ years ago isn't considered.
For today though we're adding a new rule. These are players who represented the joint venture club and not Steelers or Dragons prior to the merger.
As always, let us know below who you would bring back to help the Red V back to the promised land.
2. Matt Cooper
I don't mean to pile on here on the current crop of Dragons centres, Aitken, Williame and Tim Lafai aren't exactly park footballers, but reuniting the Gasnier/Cooper Premiership centre pairing is just too hard to pass up.
Cooper edges out the great Mark Coyne due to the fact he played a much larger part in the joint venture clubs history to date.
Cooper represented the Red V on 244 occasions, scoring 125 tries. He made 13 appearances for the Blues and kitted up for the national side 7 times. I honest thought Cooper was up around the 300 game mark given his accomplishments.
Much like Gasnier, Cooper is best remembered for his explosiveness as well as pure power. The amount of times I thought he was contained only to burst through tackles cannot be quantified.
The Gasnier/Cooper combination turns the Dragons into a genuine threat right away. A weaponry centre pairing us hugely important in the current game.
