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[Mr_Knightside]

I don’t necessarily mind the idea of Green given he’s already in the building and has a good relationship with the players, I also don’t think that it’s player complacency that is the problem at the club. But the issue is more that I’m concerned that the actual attacking strategy is coming from him and is that likely to improve if he’s the head coach?

 

[Alex28]

You’re living the past.
Being a dick doesn’t fly with today’s players.
Webster and Woolf are both doing well.
Woolf in particular got the gig largely due to his connection with the Polynesian boys.

You are in the wrong forum buddy.

Leave the Knights to those who have followed this club for decades and have seen what putting in the coach the players want has done to us.

This club has a different culture to other clubs. We don’t need one of the boys as a coach - we need a Mal Reilly style coach to whip the entire club into shape.

 

[Knight Tales]

Braith Anasta manages Willie Peters. The prospect of him coaching Newcastle was raised by Bryan Fletcher on SEN, and Anasta simply replied something to the effect he has not had any discussions with him about an NRL job for now. However he did mention he is open to coaching in the NRL.

 

[HarVeeGee]

You are in the wrong forum buddy.

Leave the Knights to those who have followed this club for decades and have seen what putting in the coach the players want has done to us.

This club has a different culture to other clubs. We don’t need one of the boys as a coach - we need a Mal Reilly style coach to whip the entire club into shape.

Okay, are you recruiting players from the 90’s too?

 

[Walk On Home Boy]

Blake Green sounds horrendous which is still orders of magnitude better than AOB.

Just get him outta here, now.

 

[NoSchitSherlock]

Good article on other potential coaches

Why the Knights must choose a coach who puts Newcastle first

The Newcastle Knights aren’t just at a crossroads — they’re teetering on a cliff edge, says local league tragic Tony Delany.

newcastleweekly.com.au

 

[Apey]

Well except the Ennis part, he seems to hate us, and he'd probably just talk about Nathan Cleary all day.

And Ronnie is in NZ he certainly isnt watching local Newy league, unless that wasn't meant to be literal.

Morris would be one of my picks, though.

 

[Alex28]

Okay, are you recruiting players from the 90’s too?

I don’t actually think that Mal is up to the job unfortunately.

The word “like” flew right over the top of you.

 

[Nuke]

I would certainly take a coach "like" Mal Reilly, especially if we could get a heap of players "like" the ones we had in the 1990s. If be stoked if we had halves "like" the Johns brothers, reliable and consistent backs "like" O'Davis, Albert, MacDougall, Gidley, Hughes, Tahu (although he was more 2000s than 1990s), and forwards "like" Chief, Simpson, Muir, Peden, Butterfield, ect.

Sounds great to me!

 

[SamSepi0l]

Good article on other potential coaches

Why the Knights must choose a coach who puts Newcastle first

The Newcastle Knights aren’t just at a crossroads — they’re teetering on a cliff edge, says local league tragic Tony Delany.

newcastleweekly.com.au

This is awful.

 

[Yosh]

Good article on other potential coaches

Why the Knights must choose a coach who puts Newcastle first

The Newcastle Knights aren’t just at a crossroads — they’re teetering on a cliff edge, says local league tragic Tony Delany.

newcastleweekly.com.au

I personally don't agree. It's not the 90s anymore. It's not semi professional rugby league. Successful clubs are run like sussessful businesses first and foremost. Don't care if the next coach is from outta space as long as he is good.

 

[The Axe of Druss]

I would certainly take a coach "like" Mal Reilly, especially if we could get a heap off players "like" the ones we had in the 1990s. If be stoked if we had halves "like" the Johns brothers, reliable and consistent backs "like" O'Davis, Albert, MacDougall, Gidley, Hughes, Tahu (although he was more 2000s than 1990s), and forwards "like" Chief, Simpson, Muir, Peden, Butterfield, ect.

Sounds great to me!

Now you've just made me nostalgic and sad

 

[The Axe of Druss]

And Ronnie is in NZ he certainly isnt watching local Newy league, unless that wasn't meant to be literal.

Hes their NRLW coach. The comp only started a few weeks ago and they have a 4 week preseason so he has only been away for 2 months. He was in Newcastle before that working with local clubs

 

[SamSepi0l]

I personally don't agree. It's not the 90s anymore. It's not semi professional rugby league. Successful clubs are run like sussessful businesses first and foremost. Don't care if the next coach is from outta space as long as he is good.

100%. For all the success people want there are so many that want to stay in the past and keep doing things bad teams do.

 

[Apey]

John Morris really the only one I'd entertain from that article.

Not sure how Griffiths would go coaching the big league, but I can say for certainty it wasn't just talent that got us those NRLW Prems. I met him briefly and he is a very likeable guy, there's no doubt in my mind the players absolutely loved him. I get the impression he's a very good (wo)man manager.

Glad we let him go.

 

[Knight Tales]

Why does a coach have to have an affiliation with a region to be a success? I have never understood that mode of thought. I do agree our identity has been lost. And it will only return with success. This town is firing on all cylinders when these boys are winning or at worst sending teams home knowing they went to war.

I miss the days when the Broncos, when at their peak success under Wayne, would tell everyone we are the hardest team in the competition to play. Even when they were always beating us. I think it was Terry Matterson who said they went home battered and bruised so badly Wayne scheduled recovery and a captains run for training the next week in advance. Cos they were too beaten up to train effectively.

 

[Woody90]

I stopped reading when they mentioned Ennis and talking like the club should be coached like we’re the Beverly Hillbillies in the 90s.

 

[mozza91]

I’ll start paying attention when Josh Massoud writes an article about a made up 9 year old girl views on the club.

 

[HarVeeGee]

John Morris really the only one I'd entertain from that article.

Not sure how Griffiths would go coaching the big league, but I can say for certainty it wasn't just talent that got us those NRLW Prems. I met him briefly and he is a very likeable guy, there's no doubt in my mind the players absolutely loved him. I get the impression he's a very good (wo)man manager.

Glad we let him go.

The win in 2023, yes that’s Tamika dragging us over the line, but also it was otherwise a heavily outmatched team physically defending their try line for very long periods, which is not actually something you see very often at all in the NRLW. Almost never in fact. Definitely have gotten the impression he ticks the most important head coach boxes. (Wo)man management, getting buy in, etc.

But yeah also there’s a huge gap in professionalism & training standards in men’s/women’s footy atm, and also just the kind of hours you have to work as a men’s head coach. For whatever reason when he took the NSW Cup job it didn’t seem to go well, and that was supposed to be a bridging job to him joining the NRL staff. So yeah I would be a bit wary. I think he’s clearly a very good coach but it may be that he’s happier and plenty satisfied in a lower stakes, better work/life balance kind of gig.

 

[Apey]

The win in 2023, yes that’s Tamika dragging us over the line, but also it was otherwise a heavily outmatched team physically defending their try line for very long periods, which is not actually something you see very often at all in the NRLW. Almost never in fact. Definitely have gotten the impression he ticks the most important head coach boxes. (Wo)man management, getting buy in, etc.

But yeah also there’s a huge gap in professionalism & training standards in men’s/women’s footy atm, and also just the kind of hours you have to work as a men’s head coach. For whatever reason when he took the NSW Cup job it didn’t seem to go well, and that was supposed to be a bridging job to him joining the NRL staff. So yeah I would be a bit wary. I think he’s clearly a very good coach but it may be that he’s happier and plenty satisfied in a lower stakes, better work/life balance kind of gig.

It might just be as simple as he is a better coach of women than men, too.

Either way, I hope he is more involved with the club again at some point, because if the article was right about one thing, he is definitely the kind of person you want around the club.