Sandra The Terrorist wrote:
What's odd about that?
Newton never came over as having a brilliant mind for the game, indeed, Galea eclipsed him in every aspect other than coming out of the changing rooms last and milking the crowd.
Newton was good, individually, and he was fun to watch, but that was it.
It's odd because Newton has massively more experience in the game than his coach, who has one year of coaching a park level club behind him, although he has been a junior development officer and assistant coach (junior team and one year of reserve grade) at the Knights for about 10 years (after injury ended his career at age 21).
It will be a problem if coach and captain disagree on something, because Newton has the authority of having played about 250 games at the top level, winning NRL grandfinal, etc etc, while Lantry's career highlight was playing for NSW under 18s.