How well did he do at newcastle mate?
Have a look at the players he has had at his disposal his whole coaching career, langer, walters, lewis, renouf, carne, lockyer, lazarus, webcke, civonaceva, tallis, etc etc etc. The list goes on and on and on. He has always had an unlimited supply of talent coming through and absolutely no competition for the hearts and minds of queensland players because has been coach of a one city club which has actually been a one state club for almost half of its existence, with unlimited brown paper bags for most of his career and has never had the challenges of smaller clubs.
Has he been successful? Yeah he has. But any coach could have succeeded with what he has had at his disposal all this time.
He took over stmerge when they were already on the up and then managed a gf win with them, but then he turned newcastle into a fucking rabble, and now brown is still trying to put the pieces back together.
Please explain to me what challenges, hardship or adversity he has ever had to deal with as a coach?????