Michael Hagan
Michael Hagan
Michael Haganis an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He currently works as the director of football at the Newcastle Knights and as an assistant coach under Mal Meninga for the record-breaking Queensland rugby league team. A Queensland State of Origin representative half, he played his club football in Australia with Canterbury-Bankstownand Newcastle, as well as in England with Halifax. He went on to have a successful coaching career with Newcastleand Parramatta, and was also selected to...
ProfessionRugby Player
Date of Birth12 August 1964
behind far teams top
We're probably not too far behind them. There's probably not too much between the top teams anyway.
business huge
It was a huge brand, a huge business and a huge opportunity.
nostalgia
Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.
available best recall round time
It's probably the first time for a little while that I can recall having something like our best 17 available for round one.
good hoped injury serious
It was good to know it wasn't a serious injury and it was only a week, which is what we hoped for.
football games last played seven
He didn't play any football, he played seven games I think, for us last year.
morning pulls today
He got through today pretty well and we'll just see how he pulls up in the morning and go from there.
andrew night quickly saturday settle unlikely
He'll be unlikely to be right, Saturday night is going to come around pretty quickly and I don't think Andrew will settle down by then to be honest.
ankle bit blew fair second
His ankle is a bit sore. It blew up a little bit. He was probably harnessed by that a fair bit, in the second half.
couple guess last terms traffic
I guess he is so important to them and he is doing things pretty smartly in terms of where he defends, so he hasn't had a lot of traffic at him in the last couple of weeks.
line running took
He took on the line and had some big blokes running off him.
game mentally training
You can only do so much at training and I just think he will be better off mentally by having some game time.