There’s a saying in Newcastle for Knights coaches: win and you can shop at 5pm. But when you lose, do your shopping at 11 at night.
. But at the start of the season there were fears Ponga’s days in the NRL were numbered.at Leichhardt Oval in round two, left the Knights coach fearing it was the last he’d seen of the electrifying fullback in a Newcastle jersey. In any jersey, for that matter.
Conversations with the Super League club owner, Simon Moran, had him excited about continuing his coaching apprenticeship on the other side of the world.Sources close to Bellamy said he told O’Brien there were three jobs in the NRL that would suit him based on his country boy upbringing: Newcastle, North Queensland and Melbourne.
In the pre-game warm-up of a match that would be remembered for halfback Mitchell Pearce kissing the Knights emblem on his jersey against the club that had only a year earlier discarded him for Cooper Cronk, O’Brien turned to fellow Roosters assistant Matt King.“I said to him, ‘It must be such a good feeling being involved with the Knights when it’s like this’. I knew then that I wanted to call this place home, even though it didn’t eventuate until much later.
“He said, ‘That’s you’,” O’Brien recalled of his conversation with the Storm coach about the prospect of taking on the Knights job. ‘Newcastle is your kind of town and you’re their kind of coach’.The Roosters were furious with O’Brien who, barely one year into a three-year deal with the club as an assistant coach, was now telling them of his plans to move up the F3.“I think you’d find that every assistant coach that had been doing it for a long time would have that in there. It’s not foreign.
The second promise was he would not talk publicly about his next role while he was still in the job he was being paid for at the Roosters.
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