Good to see our former head coach has remained in the game with Newcastle Knights in the NRL. Quotes from the Knights website below;

New coaches to lead Knights into 2015

Newly appointed head coach Rick Stone says the Club is in good shape coming into 2015 following the appointment of NRL assistant coaches Craig Sandercock and Danny Buderus, as well as NSW Cup’s coach Matt Lantry and NYC’s Troy Pezet.

Stone addressed the media at Wests Mayfield on Monday about the new coaching structure and said the coaching team possesses a valuable mix of experience and local knowledge.

“Craig Sandercock is a bloke I’ve had with me in Newcastle when I was head coach before, he’s spent three years in England as head coach at Hull KR and comes with a wealth of experience and knows our players pretty well,” Stone said.

“Danny Buderus is a local legend around here and just retired from playing recently. He took up as skills coach and a positional coaching role this year and it's good to expand that role to a more seasoned assistant coaching role in 2015.

“Matt Lantry is going to coach our NSW Cup team, he worked with me as an assistant with NSW Cup and went back and did some terrific things with Charlestown"

Glad he's got sorted, but that really is his level. Not armoured with the people skills to be a head coach.

Yep, lovely guy just not got the bollax to discipline when required.

Good luck to him. Shame it didn't work out here.

Really hope it works out for him - always seemed genuine and a really nice guy, just think he lacked a little passion and needed to man up a bit more on discipline!

Last time he was at Newcastle he was part of about a 10 man coaching and training staff. That rose to 32 under Wayne Bennett.
2 million dollars is being cut from the football budget, but 1.3 mill of that is Bennett's wage, and he is taking his head trainer, chief recruiter and under 20s coach with him, which just about covers the other 700k.

It will be a very different experience for him this time around.