Brian Smith
Brian Smith
Formerly played for South Sydney from 1975 to 1979 and is best known as the coach of teams like the Illawarra Steelers and Parramatta Eels.
ProfessionRugby Player
Date of Birth14 March 1954
best fifth finish frank good great last luck past race since
We just couldn't get past Frank on the last lap. It was a great race and a lot of fun. It was our best finish since we got fifth in 1999. Usually we don't have a lot of good luck here.
group match
Our first match in the group could not be more difficult,
field free good percentage throws
Our field-goal percentage wasn't good and our free throws weren't good; 14 of 23 (at the line) wasn't good.
hitting opened quarter third tough
We opened up that third quarter pretty much on fire. When we're hitting 3s, we're pretty tough to stop.
call fine neck tough week
We're done with the tough stuff. We're fine tuning. We call this week the check-up from the neck up.
answered hearing people questions stuff sure year
Timmy's answered questions all year long and (now) I'm hearing stuff that people say he's got to do this or he's got to do that and I'm not really sure that he does,
along balance careful commercial fragile road trying
What we're trying to do is take into consideration that the road is a two-lane road and it won't be anything but that in the future. Therefore, we're trying to be careful how much commercial development is along the corridor; it's a lot more fragile balance between commercial and residential than U.S. 19.
evidence learn lessons plenty team work
We want to be a top-four team but on this evidence we've still got plenty of work to do. We've lessons to learn from this.
agreement signed sooner tax
The sooner that tax agreement is signed the better it is for everybody.
home huge
(Home-court advantage) is going to be a huge factor.
cordial
He's very professional. He's very cordial during the game.
handle work
In the long term, we're going to need something more to work with. This isn't going to handle a lot of growth.
club coaching leeds love perception quite team time tony
I love to see Tony doing so well at Leeds because, when I was coaching in England, and particularly during my time at Hull, they were always the team everyone hated, ... The perception was of Leeds being the millionaire club who never quite did it.
great guys happy job terrific
I'm very happy for him - he's one of the great guys and he will do a terrific job over there.