Just wait til about 4 rounds into 2008 and the Knights are 4-0 and setting the world on fire. Buderus and Gidley are in awesome form and the team is reaping the rewards of their young players getting blooded in the previous season.
I can see the headline and lead paragraphs now on the back of the telegraph in April next year:
"In Smith we trust"
In a stunning reversal of public opinion, Newcastle coach Brian Smith is being heralded as a super coach by the people of Newcastle after the team's unbeaten first month of the 2008 premiership. Rising above the disharmony that threatened his job at the end of 2007, Smith has taken the criticisms of the people to heart, retooled the team and now has the side playing football the old Newcastle way.
In an exclusive for the Daily Telegraph, the young girl who penned the Knights a letter in texta late last season voicing her displeasure at the way the team was being handled by Smith, Sarah Matterson (now in Year Four) has sent Brian Smith an email message from her Blackberry telling him that "I was caught up in the moment last year and apologise."
The Telegraph can also print the rest of the email to Smith in full to verify that this is indeed Sarah's own work.
"I think you do a great job and now we're winning the nice guy at the Telegraph said I should write something positive this time because it will help him sell papers. I find that kind of strange because he told me if I wrote something negative and had a go at you last time it would sell papers too... In fact he also told me to use a texta and paper last time to really go for the sympathy vote, which I guess was smart because I had offered to use my old mobile phone because I knew how to text then pretty well. It might also explain why my spelling was so bad - because my texta doesn't have predictive text unfortunately! Plus he gave me a couple of lobsters to use the texta and copy his notes that said you didn't know what you were doing and stuff. Besides who am I to turn down a deal like that! Hope you understand and go the Dragons!, Love Sarah xoxoxoxo."
* please note that all the above is pure fiction... hopefully.
