New Zealand Warriors dominate St George Illawarra Dragons for ...

With or without Ben Hunt, St George Illawarra's season looks a lost cause after the Warriors added to the Dragons' woes with a crushing 48-18 NRL win.

There was no sign of any hostile reception for Hunt from the Wollongong faithful despite the skipper earlier this week telling the Dragons he wanted out from the club.

But by the game's end on Friday night, Red V fans could have been forgiven for demanding a $1 million refund from the disgruntled playmaker after Hunt produced a pedestrian performance.

Forty-eight hours after helping Queensland seal a second straight State of Origin series win over NSW, Hunt was totally outplayed by his Warriors opposite Shaun Johnson.

Johnson produced his 16th and 17th try assists for the season, as well as crossing for one himself, to send St George Illawarra crashing back to the bottom of the table with the 30-point thumping.

Hunt managed only three runs for 24 metres and never looked like sparking the attack, hardly the output of a million-dollar-a-season playmaker.

Whether the 33-year-old has played his 118th and last game for the club will now be up to the board.

"I'll have a meeting with the hire-ups this week, on Monday, and we'll work it out from there," Hunt told the Nine Network.

The ineffective Hunt was far from the Dragons' worst, though, with winger Mikaele Ravalawa having a shocker.

A series of howlers from Ravalawa helped the Warriors to a 20-6 half-time lead.

He spilt a Johnson bomb early before Dallin Watene-Zelezniak opened the scoring in the ensuing set with the first of his career-best four tries for the night.

Only the bunker's intervention denied the Warriors a second four-pointer moments later after a terrible defensive misread from Ravalawa.

Fleet-footed fullback Tyrel Sloan showed blistering speed to put the Dragons ahead against the run of play before Ravalawa rushed out of the line to allow his Warriors opposite Marcelo Montoya a free run to the line.

The Warriors never looked back.

Four minutes later, after Bayley Sironen and Jackson Ford both profited from Johnson kicks, the Warriors suddenly found themselves 14 points in front.

Marata Niukore offered the Dragons a lifeline back into the contest after being sin-binned for forcing Moses Suli off with a category-one concussion.

Zane Musgrove duly gave home fans hope when he crossed three minutes later to drag the deficit back to eight points.

Alas, the Warriors piled on five more tries - including a second-half hat-trick to Zelezniak - to secure only a second NRL win at WIN Stadium to continue their surprise push for a top-four finals berth.