Re: Craig Sandercock : Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:31 am  

Sheldon wrote:

Peter Fox will be gutted he's left.

He always wanted to learn how to read and write.

That's quite funny!n LOL

Re: Craig Sandercock : Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:09 am  

World of Redboy wrote:

He's just the australian version of Richard Agar. Cheap.

What a ridiculous statement. Any assistant from Oz is always going to be a risk, the BoD have done the right thing and undeertook a rigourous interviewing process and I assume they have been impressed by CS.
We will all have a far better idea if he's another Richard Agar or a Michael McGuire by the end of next season.

Re: Craig Sandercock : Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:20 am  

roopy wrote:

- but he was a poor reserve grader two years ago.

Thats not true Roopy , he had a brilliant World Cup (for Fiji...) in 08 , where he made the most breaks in the tournament, his performance against France lives long in the memory , he had already been described by Andrew Johns to be "the greatest Rugby League athlete i have ever seen" and he has played first grade for Newcastle since 2008 and a regular since 09...

Claiming all the credit is a little disrespectful to a brilliant natural talent...

Your first names not Craig is it..????

Re: Craig Sandercok : Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:43 am  

One year with London Broncos.

Anybody know which year this was? I can find no record of him at the Broncos, very curious!

Re: Craig Sandercock : Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:55 am  

Larry Billey wrote:

Thats not true Roopy , he had a brilliant World Cup (for Fiji...) in 08 , where he made the most breaks in the tournament, his performance against France lives long in the memory , he had already been described by Andrew Johns to be "the greatest Rugby League athlete i have ever seen" and he has played first grade for Newcastle since 2008 and a regular since 09...

Claiming all the credit is a little disrespectful to a brilliant natural talent...

Your first names not Craig is it..????

The new coach wasn't your 1st choice then bazza?

Re: Craig Sandercock : Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:00 am  

Jake the Peg wrote:

The new coach wasn't your 1st choice then bazza?

I don't think Baz was part of the selection panel, I could be wrong.

Re: Craig Sandercok : Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:01 am  

poplar panther wrote:

Anybody know which year this was? I can find no record of him at the Broncos, very curious!

1997

Re: Craig Sandercock : Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:06 am  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Your defence is about as robust as Rovers' against Catalans, sadly. His response was a quickfire one in direct response to the question "Where will Rovers be next year?" I think it's on. Everyone seems very happy that every signing so far has been a trade-up, plus Withers, Paea and at least one other. Just the small job of finishing ahead of either Warrington, Wigan, Leeds or Saints.

If you want to talk about poison, try your daft old mate Gwilym Lloyd.

MS needs to concentrate on acheiving his own time-bound goals rather than setting stretch objectives for others.

Gwilym has the memory of a flour seive but managed a fairly robust defence regards the Andy Lynch comment. It's his job to comment on both teams, and as far as I know, he doesn't publish outright lies on a weekly basis.

Re: Craig Sandercock : Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:07 am  

General Zod. wrote:

Real excited now the announcement has been made - I think we've got a great chance to kick on under this guy

I agree think we've made a good choice but only time will tell.

Hull have also got a coach who looks like a good choice so next season will be interesting.

If both sets of fans were honest we really don't have a clue as to who will prove the better appointment how could we? Neither have ever been a head coach before so both step into new territory.

I will say though it is an exciting time for Rugby League in the city.

Re: Craig Sandercock : Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:58 pm  

Larry Billey wrote:

Thats not true Roopy , he had a brilliant World Cup (for Fiji...) in 08 , where he made the most breaks in the tournament, his performance against France lives long in the memory , he had already been described by Andrew Johns to be "the greatest Rugby League athlete i have ever seen" and he has played first grade for Newcastle since 2008 and a regular since 09...

Claiming all the credit is a little disrespectful to a brilliant natural talent...

Your first names not Craig is it..????

I've followed Uate's career since he was 17.
The 2008 WC is when he started to come to a lot of people's notice, but even after those games he was not a regular firstgrader under Brian Smith.
He became a regular firstgrader from the first game when Stone took over as head coach with CS as an assistant, and both Stone and Uate credit CS with turning him into a regular firstgrader.
He has always been a massively talented athlete, but he was 23 before he became a regular in firstgrade because he learnt the finer points of the game very slowly and made very little progress under Brian Smith, who isn't the best at working with guys who aren't up to speed.