Harry's aggression, competitiveness and self belief/arrogance is what will put him eventually onto a different level to say Watkins. Known him for years and he can rub people the wrong way but also a great lad.
I think Newman's confidence / arrogance is what makes him so good. He really backs himself and believes he is better than everyone else and generally he has the ability to back that up.
I always felt Watkins lacked this. Never had enough heart for me compared to Newman.
Seth wrote:Harry's aggression, competitiveness and self belief/arrogance is what will put him eventually onto a different level to say Watkins. Known him for years and he can rub people the wrong way but also a great lad.
Made the same comment re. Watkins before seeing your post. 100% agree.
Seth wrote:Harry's aggression, competitiveness and self belief/arrogance is what will put him eventually onto a different level to say Watkins. Known him for years and he can rub people the wrong way but also a great lad.
Spot on. Had a chat with him afterwards and he’s just a fierce competitor, plain and simple. Absolute freak of a talent, and Hardaker summed it up when he said "I think Harry has said it all for me, he tells everyone in the sheds that he can win a game on his own". I don’t think he’s far wrong to be honest.
christopher wrote:Do we reckon that win keeps us safe from relegation?
Should do.
If we got no more points Wakefield would need 4 wins from 8 to overtake us. They have 5 tough games (Saints x2 / Wigan / Catalans / Huddersfield) and 3 potentially more winnable games (HKR / Hull FC / Castleford) so all in all it's probably a big ask for them to do that.
Swoggy Loiner wrote:Anyone else in Corporate last night and hear Newman after the game?
Rob Oates asked him about the performance and what Rohan had said to the lads before kick off
Newman went on to say how the boys wanted to work for eachother, togetherness blah blah blah, then goes on to say "well, Rohan said they’re a 2 man team, and yeah French and Field are good players, but I had them in my back pocket tonight”!!
As much as he needs to stay grounded, you’ve got to love the kid’s belief in himself and his enthusiasm. Cracking speech and a great bit of $hithousery in there as well.
Am sure Newman is a top lad. Personally don’t think he’s achieved anywhere near enough yet to be that cocky though. Sport and life has a habit of bringing you back down to earth. Just saying……
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Swoggy Loiner wrote:Anyone else in Corporate last night and hear Newman after the game?
Rob Oates asked him about the performance and what Rohan had said to the lads before kick off
Newman went on to say how the boys wanted to work for eachother, togetherness blah blah blah, then goes on to say "well, Rohan said they’re a 2 man team, and yeah French and Field are good players, but I had them in my back pocket tonight”!!
As much as he needs to stay grounded, you’ve got to love the kid’s belief in himself and his enthusiasm. Cracking speech and a great bit of $hithousery in there as well.
I may be in a minority on here but i think it's a bit disappointing if that's what Newman said, particularly about Wigan been a 2 man team. Thinking it and keeping it in house is one thing, but saying it in a public environment is poor imo. The respect Peet showed to Leeds in his after game interview was excellent. He comes across as class act. I appreciate he is the coach and Newman only a player, but I could never recall a similar public comment by Sinny, McGuire, Burrow etc.
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The Magic Rat wrote:I may be in a minority on here but i think it's a bit disappointing if that's what Newman said, particularly about Wigan been a 2 man team. Thinking it and keeping it in house is one thing, but saying it in a public environment is poor imo. The respect Peet showed to Leeds in his after game interview was excellent. He comes across as class act. I appreciate he is the coach and Newman only a player, but I could never recall a similar public comment by Sinny, McGuire, Burrow etc.
The biggest attribute of the golden generation was their humility. That’s why we won so much. I think fans already saying Newman is better than Watkins was is Completely wrong too……
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