With Knights officers reportedly assembly with potential coaches in current weeks, a giant query has been raised — can Adam O’Brien win Newcastle a premiership?
A Knights official reportedly met with axed Titans coach Justin Holbrook following the membership’s big upset victory over the Storm.
Newcastle powerbrokers have additionally met with Michael Maguire, Paul McGregor and Des Hasler based on Fox League’s James Hooper.
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Knights chief govt Phil Gardner reportedly desires to scale back the affect of controversial participant supervisor Isaac Moses on the membership. leaving O’Brien in a clumsy place.
While 4 gamers represented by Moses will reportedly go away the membership on the 12 months’s finish, Moses can also be O’Brien’s supervisor and league legend Gorden Tallis posed the essential query.
“Can Adam O’Brien win them a grand final? That’s the question you’ve got to ask being a board member, that’s what your club gets judged on,” Tallis requested on NRL360.
“I’m not prepared to say O’Brien can’t win a grand final, I think he has done a terrific job,” The Daily Telegraph’s Phil Rothfield mentioned.
“Right now they are playing the best they have since 10 years ago when Wayne Bennett took them one game away from the grand final.
“They are a serious football side and can beat anyone, they took Penrith to Golden Point don’t forget.”
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The Daily Telegraph’s Brent Read slammed Newcastle bosses assembly with over coaches and questioned why O’Brien wasn’t conscious of the Holbrook assembly if the previous Titans boss was being mentioned to change into an assistant.
“I think it is disrespectful to Adam, because I think he is getting as much out of that footy team as anyone could,” Read mentioned.
“You stack that footy team, that squad, you put it beside Penrith and Brisbane, it is an inferior squad.
“If Adam O’Brien is head coach and they are only talking about Holbrook being in the system, surely they should have brought O’Brien in to the conversation.
“Surely he is entitled to have some say in the structure of his coaching staff.”
Read additionally signalled that if the Knights don’t hand O’Brien an extension past the 2024 season, it’s a mirrored image of the membership’s bosses not his efficiency.
“If that’s the case, that’s sad because he has done a great job and if he is becoming collateral damage in some power struggle, that footy club has got problems beyond the coach,” Read mentioned.
“That footy club has massive problems in the way it’s being run and you would suggest given they are meeting coaches on the sly, I’d suggest what coach would want to go there?
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“What coach would want to coach there when you can’t trust the people who are running the show to be upfront with you.
“Why would you want to go and coach there if that’s going on? It is embarrassing, this is a footy club on the verge of the top eight.
“All we are talking about is how people at the club are going behind people’s backs to talk to other coaches.”
NRL360 host Braith Anasta then requested if Newcastle will resolve the difficulty earlier than the beginning of the 2024 season to provide readability to the Knights squad.
“You don’t want this carrying over, you have to make a decision. You just can’t have this question mark for a long period of time,” Anasta mentioned.
“In the early rounds of the comp it is going to be the complete focus of that town, what is going to happen,” Rothfield mentioned.
“If he makes the eight Braith he should get at least another year, an extension on what is already on top of next year,” Read added.
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