See here: www.leaguefreak.com/craig-gower- ... -days-4593 As Popeye once said : He can stand so much, he can stand no more. Very sad indeed if true, lets hope it is not. Would explain Bishay's rapid promotion. Thanks Craig for everything, one of the few players to give 100% every week.

See here: www.leaguefreak.com/craig-gower- ... -days-4593 As Popeye once said : He can stand so much, he can stand no more. Very sad indeed if true, lets hope it is not. Would explain Bishay's rapid promotion. Thanks Craig for everything, one of the few players to give 100% every week.

What a real loss to our club! I presume we will never know the real truth why?

Newcastle (NSW) TV station tweet:

Former Panthers, NSW and Australia rugby league player Craig Gower has signed with Newcastle @NRLKnights for the rest of the NRL season.

Newcastle nights fans dont seem to happy about it.

Really hope its only a rumour and he stays till the end of the season, would have thought he would have cherished the losers medal from Wembley so at least stuck around for that.

In reality, would not surprise me in the slightest, its not as if anyone else around him keeps up with the game at at his pace
Cant see him coping with the pace of things in the NRL though

As a fan of both clubs, I'm gutted as a Broncos fan if he does go. He is the lynchpin of the club; I fear even worse times to the end of the season without him (and given the capitulation on Saturday that says something).
As a Knights fan I think Jarrod Mullen is one of the best game managers in the NRL. Not sure what Growler can bring to an already quite old team. If Benny wants him though he must have a good reason.

Not surprising. All his comments last year were directed at the Players in a kick up the ass manner (if you remember, he let RP off the hook entirely).

Either he doesn't think our squad is up to it, or he doesn't think they try hard enough (possible both).

Tony Rea made some comment recently about having players that bought into the London thing. Maybe CG looked at our limited resources, our awful crowds and management of our club and didn't buy into it (who could blame him?).

Guess the final straw would be getting dropped from the Captaincy (must be hard when you are the player that is targetted every week and voted best player by the opposition).

I know he's on good money but somehow, it feels like we didn't deserve him.

Can't see him playing in the NRL though...maybe there's plans for a coaching role (and i guess he would be great to have as a back-up).

If I was Craig and the effort he has put into the club! no way would I Respect many at the club.

Tony Rea's brilliant decision to sack the club's best player from the captaincy no doubt was the straw that broke the camel's back. Rea humiliated Gower. What did he expect the result would be?

That is what you get when you try and mix classy players like Gower with substandard players liek O'Callaghan and second raters and incompetents like Rea and McKay.

Millionaire David Hughes, who hired both Rea and McKay, has thus shown that he is incapable of running a real business.

Gosh..wonder how he made his millions then! Think its more a case of he is incapable of running a sport club

Shocked but not surprised. Newcastle must have made him a mighty fine offer if true.

He made his millions on the financial markets, speculating, as I understand it. Nothing to do with man management and running a business.

I said at the time of his appointment that the reappointment of Rea was a disaster waiting to happen and nothing ive seen since then has changed my opinion.

Given that this comes from League Freak, someone who makes Dave 'Nosey' Parker look a pillar of reliability, I'd wait for the official annoucement. Also, isn't CG contracted to the end of next season which would mean that Newcastle will have to pay compensation?

Dorn and Witt into the halves, Robbo at full back

Let the miserable git sod of back to the coal mines of the Hunter Valley