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St George Illawarra coach Paul McGregor wants nothing to do with rumours linking suspended Parramatta star Corey Norman to the Dragons.Instead, he admits ongoing reports surrounding player recruitment and retention have created a disharmonious environment at the NRL club.Were connected to every player that is on the market at the moment, McGregor said on Tuesday when asked about Norman.Its been a real instability thats divided the club in different places this year.The recruitment and retention guys, weve got two of them guys to look after that, and Ive been answering questions from October last year and Im just about over it.McGregor has time and time again been forced to answer questions surrounding the future of key players Benji Marshall, Mitch Rein and Joel Thompson this season.Club captain Ben Creagh is also off-contract.Meanwhile, Robbie Farah, Cooper Cronk, Luke Keary and Jackson Hastings have all been linked to the Dragons this season.McGregor also publicly announced his interest in code-crossing star Jarryd Hayne when he quit the NFL earlier this season.Norman, along with a number of the other mooted stars, would be a natural fit to replace the off-contract Marshall in the halves if they arrived at the club.Ive always liked coaching Benji, Ive always said that, McGregor said.Its really important that he continues to play well, because when he plays well our team plays well and that will obviously give him the best opportunity to get a contract.Marshall has struggled to link matches together this season, missing nine as he battles to overcome ongoing hamstring injuries.But McGregor said his long-term health was not a determinant on whether he would earn a new contract.Youve got to remember hes only 31 - hes not an old man, McGregor said.Its just that he has had an unfortunate recurrence of a hamstring injury which is for any player at any age, its unfortunate.The under-fire Dragons mentor also confirmed he was working with the club to try and have the ongoing suspensions hanging over Tim Lafai and Siliva Havili lifted after an off-field incident last week.Obviously they are a big part of our team and what were about, he said.That will be sorted out in the near future.Terrance Ferguson Thunder Jersey . 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Goals from Jerome Boateng, Franck Ribery and Thomas Mueller extended Bayerns unbeaten run to a record 37 matches. "This record is incredible," Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said.Poor Lewis Hamilton. Its one thing to lose what looks like being a guaranteed race win when you have yourself to blame -- making a mistake and putting it in the wall, or colliding with a backmarker when blue flag frustration becomes too much to bear -- and another thing entirely when your loss looks to have been an act of god.Mechanical failures are the worst way to retire, feeling as though the wheel of fortune has spun you from top to bottom so rapidly that theres nothing left but the twin senses of injustice and despair, and perhaps a little nausea on the side.When reports of Hamiltons post-race statements in the TV pen began to filter into the press room -- someone doesnt want me to win -- the initial assumption was that the Mercedes driver was referring to some form of celestial power, be it god, the universe, or karma.But once the full selection of quotes had been transcribed, it rather looked as though Hamilton was pointing the figure not at the big guy upstairs, but at nefarious forces within his own team. He may not have used the word himself, but the implication was more sabotage than it was shoddy luck.My questions are to Mercedes -- we have lost so many engines, Hamilton told the BBC immediately after the race. There are eight drivers and mine are the only ones who has failed. Someone has to give me some answers and it is not acceptable. Something or someone doesnt want me to win this year.Its a brand new engine, he added. Ive done one race with it. I did P3 with it, qualifying, its a brand new engine from the three that I had. Its just odd. Theres been like 43 engines from Mercedes [this season] and only mine have gone.But an hour or so later, having had time to reflect, Hamilton told his open print media session that his comments referred not to the team, but to some form of higher power or celestial being.It feels right now that the man above, or a higher power is intervening a little bit but I feel like Ive been blessed with so many big opportunities, firstly being here with all these people around here, the opportunity in this great team winning the last two championships. Lots and lots of big trophies and recordss that Im breaking time and time [again].dddddddddddd..While Lewis can hardly be blamed for feeling himself to be a victim of a string of reliability issues that have plagued car #44 -- and only #44 -- since the start of the season, it is unfortunate that the Briton felt the need to make comments that appeared to ask questions of his own team (and the associated Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, based in Brixworth). Fomenting discontent within the ranks -- even unwittingly, and even in the passionate heat of 25 points lost -- rarely does anyone any favours.That this latest failure came at a race which would have seen Hamilton equal Nico Rosberg in the championship standings will have been a real kick in the teeth. That it took place at a grand prix paid for by Mercedes team sponsor Petronas wont have helped matters either. And the fact that when Hamilton drew his stricken car to a stop it was on the very part of the track painted with Petronas branding will have been good news only for the right place, right time snappers now able to command high prices for their photos of the incident.Toto Wolff burying his head in his hands on the global television feed says it all about the feeling in the Mercedes garage on Sunday afternoon. This could have been the weekend in which Mercedes sewed up the constructors championship, and now that most profitable of moments will be delayed by at least one more race weekend. The fact that the WCC is essentially inevitable -- and has been since what feels like the dawn of time -- hardly helps.Following Hamiltons understandable yet undesirable outburst, Mercedes will head to Suzuka with a sense of discomfort within the ranks. Winning races and titles is very much a team effort, and despite the praise Hamilton heaped on his own race crew, the very fact that one of the teams drivers is publicly asking questions that imply (at best) bias and (at worst) outright sabotage is only going to lower morale in a team that should be celebrating their most dominant season yet. ' ' '