Thats not true Roopy , he had a brilliant World Cup (for Fiji...) in 08 , where he made the most breaks in the tournament, his performance against France lives long in the memory , he had already been described by Andrew Johns to be "the greatest Rugby League athlete i have ever seen" and he has played first grade for Newcastle since 2008 and a regular since 09...

Claiming all the credit is a little disrespectful to a brilliant natural talent...

Your first names not Craig is it..????

Anybody know which year this was? I can find no record of him at the Broncos, very curious!

The new coach wasn't your 1st choice then bazza?

I don't think Baz was part of the selection panel, I could be wrong.

1997

MS needs to concentrate on acheiving his own time-bound goals rather than setting stretch objectives for others.

Gwilym has the memory of a flour seive but managed a fairly robust defence regards the Andy Lynch comment. It's his job to comment on both teams, and as far as I know, he doesn't publish outright lies on a weekly basis.

I agree think we've made a good choice but only time will tell.

Hull have also got a coach who looks like a good choice so next season will be interesting.

If both sets of fans were honest we really don't have a clue as to who will prove the better appointment how could we? Neither have ever been a head coach before so both step into new territory.

I will say though it is an exciting time for Rugby League in the city.

I've followed Uate's career since he was 17.
The 2008 WC is when he started to come to a lot of people's notice, but even after those games he was not a regular firstgrader under Brian Smith.
He became a regular firstgrader from the first game when Stone took over as head coach with CS as an assistant, and both Stone and Uate credit CS with turning him into a regular firstgrader.
He has always been a massively talented athlete, but he was 23 before he became a regular in firstgrade because he learnt the finer points of the game very slowly and made very little progress under Brian Smith, who isn't the best at working with guys who aren't up to speed.

Well that is strange, coz no one seems to have heard of him in London, he certainly did not figure for the first team (see Gillette Year Book). He has a name that we would remember! Maybe he wished he had played in London!

I dont give a monkeys uncle bout where he played even if it was sally army in aus as long as he does a decent job for us

Yep exactly none of us have heard of Craig of gentle or others that are coming through as assistants, I like the sound of this coach and I'm pretty confident for next season, were making our fair share of signings with paea coming and I reckon another forward I think we will do ok