Would constantly follow the play. Could be called an old-school hooker as he was almost always at dummy half and know exactly where everyone in his own line was and knew where everyone was in the oppositions defensive line. His pin-point passing could pick out a man miles away. Failing that, a dummy half scoot would always gain a number of yards at least, if not a try.

Was Terry involved with the Higham transfer from saints\wigan\bradford?

Millward ruined Wigan and Terry..A complete t0sser Millward was. Mission accomplished for some fans though..

Despite being a Wiganer and playing the game on the 'edge', two things about him I didn't appreciate, there was always something about Newton that was compelling to watch, which meant when he was on the field I found it hard not to watch.

Not one particular moment comes into my head when I think of Newton highlights, just consistently good in his role at hooker, when his head was on the game.

Maybe it's because the events leading up to his death were unknown at the time of HGH taking?

Did you know that Terry has been estranged from his sister for years due to her drug addition and the day after she was our of hospital and cleaning up her act she died a year ago in Terry's arms?

Did you know Terry was suffering from depression as a result and blames his depression resulting from his sisters death partially on his weekness in taking HGH?

Did you know he regretted not trying to do more for his sister?

Then there's the added pressure of the media and the anti-doping agency trying to get him to name names. The change of life from RL player to publican of a small pub in Wigan. Being branded a cheat, by his own admission he took HGH to try to get over injury and stretch his career out but how many others would be tempted to do this?

How much support did he get from the RFL or Wakefield?

Terry was a great player who always played the game with his heart on show. He was a pantomime villain in many ways, his actions were far less than his reputation. The way players around the sport have spoken about him just shows what he was like as a man. He didn't deserve the media focus for his actions to the degree he suffered, there are other players alleged to be using the same drug.

Terry had his faults but was a great RL player and his memory doesn't need somebody from the other side of the world spouting crap about how he is to be remembered.

All very sad I'm sure.

My point was that the same people that were saying he was cr&p anyway and it was right he got banned and no one would miss him anyway are probably the same people that were posting the sort of knee jerk eulogies on these forums when he died that are usually reserved for legendary statesmen such as Ghandi and Churchill.

And the poor bloke must have set a Facebook record for the amount of friends by any one user judging by the amount of people I have read who claimed to have played footy with him/drunk with him/ been mates with him or whatever.



ps... I'm an Aussie living in Hammersmith. Not really the other side of the world...although to you it may well be

Been bitten by Gene

That's the first thing I remember about him.

He bit him????!!!

Newton accused him of it in the game.

and later withdrew the accusation............

And?