No he’s yet to put cock to sandpaper...I mean pen to paperIs sandcock not official yet?!
Luke Lewis spoke about this exact thing a while back before a game on ABC. He revealed that it was the assistant coach he would go to talk about individual stuff about his game. Players don't like going to the head coach, because they feel it might give him reason to drop them. So whenever he was worried about an area of his game he'd go to the assistant to have a chat and get advice. A good assistant coach helps individual players out with issues in their game, but is discreet about it so they continue to go to him with trust.Im intrigued as to how different the roles are, something ill probably never know.
I remember him well mate, very solid player.He was tough as and hopefully adds attraction to a good hooker. I was hoping for either him or Carty, both would help give Barrett some tougher D while he hopefully rebuilds our attack.
I think a decent part of his decision was getting back to Sydney as his family were here whilst he’s been commuting/staying in Newcastle. That said, you still don’t take a job if your gut tells you it’s a wrong move so obviously something has made him buy into the vision as he said. Pretty sure those plans are being held pretty closely by the footy club given various other upheavals...Would love to see a candid interview of Furner about coming to the dogs and his reasons etc. See what he really has to say. Walking away from a team feautring talent like Ponga and actually competing would be hard. Face value Barrett seems like he's making some good choices.
I've done both and your 100% correct, it's not as high pressured being an assistant coach and way more fun and satisfying as well.There’s just heaps more involved being a head coach where an assistant can usually focus on the football side of things.
Yes 2 young coaches with ambition,given what we have endured over the last few years,can we really get any worse,I’m positive that we will b playing semi final football in the coming years.if you’ve lived in Newcastle you’d know y he is coming to Sydney,it’s a shithole,unless u live near the beachWould love to see a candid interview of Furner about coming to the dogs and his reasons etc. See what he really has to say. Walking away from a team feautring talent like Ponga and actually competing would be hard. Face value Barrett seems like he's making some good choices.