"Anderson cost us the grand final - Campion"-Stuff

[Kiwishark]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Hope it hasn't been posted yet, mods can sort if so.

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Anderson cost us the grand final - Campion

01 October 2006 [/FONT]

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Kevin Campion has launched an extraordinary attack on former Warriors coach Daniel Anderson -accusing him of costing the team an NRL grand final.

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Campion, captain of the Warriors side which made the 2002 premiership finals, said Anderson's attempted halftime pep talk backfired so badly the team went to pieces.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]The Warriors ended up being thrashed 30-8 by the Sydney Roosters.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Down just 2-6 at the break, the Warriors players gathered in the sheds to wait for Anderson's instructions.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]But Campion said, instead of talking tactics, Anderson walked into the dressing room with a tape recorder, turning on a mock commentary of the Warriors beating the Broncos.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Then he walked out without a further word.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"That halftime speech goes down as one of the worst things I have ever heard - it was just ridiculous," Campion told Sunday News. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"I am not too sure what he was thinking. "He made us this tape of a mock commentary and must have thought the Broncos would make the grand final."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]On the tape the Warriors scored a try to win the final.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"He never addressed us at halftime.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"He brought a tape recorder in, said, "Boys I want you to listen to this", and then walked out.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"It starts playing, "Welcome to the 2002 grand final, the Warriors versus the Broncos".[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"I flipped out and thought, "What is this?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"I was just going, "Turn that s*** off".[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]"I was screaming, "What the **** is this?" [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, MS Sans Serif]Campion said some of his younger teammates were visibly confused by Anderson's ploy. [/FONT]

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Interesting time to come out with that. Especially 4 years after the game. What was Anderson thinking?
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[Fast Eddie]

If you were going to go for that crazy strategy you would think that would at least do it right and have the Roosters not the Broncs.

 

[Daniel Anderson]

What a croc of sh*t

We lost cos of our number 7. Thomas was injured that weekend so i had to pick Hairy Jones

 

[sinbad]

Ando you need to visit 0800 bignuts as you need some balls mate !!

what were you thinking , or was your brain turned off ?

Goos to finally see the true story come out. Maybe Campo did it to make sure that Ando never coaches in the NRL again.

 

[carlnz]

Who cares, the reason why we lost was because we got out played in the last 20 mins...