I love hearing morons talking out of their asses about Newman, keyboard warriors attack.
For those of us who support the side and get to games we all saw Newman at Penrith in his first game. Standing at the southern end Newman was in the centres left hand side and was calling his inside man to move out due to an overlap, the inside man turned to him and told him to shut the fark up. This happened twice, the third time he stayed silent understandably. Penrith scored 3 tries down that side that night. How does a debutant argue with his captain?
The player who farked over Newman and cemented his place as the worst captain of Manly in history was Matt Orford.
Newman was never the same after that, played half a dozen more games that year did his knee (Stewart 2009 anyone) and the rest is history.