'We were weeks away': The untold story of how the Knights almost folded | awebster1975
Logical because they were an enormous part of the community, with a mandate to propagate rugby league in the region with a membership that is now more than 135,000 people. Ironic because Wests had sided with Super League and its spawn, the ill-fated Hunter Mariners, in 1997.
He addressed the ARL Commission and made it clear that the game could not afford to lose the only club between Sydney and the Queensland border. He recalled Super League and the importance of Newcastle to that fight.In the end, Wests got what they wanted but it came with one significant caveat: it builds a $20 million centre of excellence with half that money being provided in a grant from the NSW government.
For starters, the club’s solvent, turning about a $1 million profit a year for the past three years since Wests took over. Brown showed tolerance with an inferior squad, blooding players before their time because he had no choice. Then he helped lure a young superstar in Kalyn Ponga, and then an older one in Pearce.With his old-school methodology no longer working, he was replaced this season by Adam O’Brien, who has learnt the coaching trade under modern-day master coaches Craig Bellamy and Trent Robinson.
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