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Renowned Newcastle Herald sports journalist Barry Toohey interviews a legend of NSW rugby league and the Newcastle Knights each week, bringing his years of reporting experience - and extensive industry contacts - to offer a unique and in-depth behind-the-scenes look at the state's most popular sport. Toohey's News, The Podcast is a production of the Newcastle Herald sports desk.
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. Phil Gardner is an accountant by trade, but he readily admits he's not who people want doing the books. Rather, the boy from Werris Creek in northern NSW said his degree helped him develop the leadership skills he needed to run West…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. He was the shy kid who had never thought of playing rugby league. A couple of the other Fijian boys from Woy Woy Roosters had invited him to play touch at training. He showed up, without boots, played and signed his first contract w…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. To quote Steve Crowe from his appearance on the podcast just a couple of weeks ago: "There is no 1997 victory without Leo Dynevor". The 75 kilogram Queenslander five-eighth started his career with the London Broncos and signed with …
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. Michael Ennis had a talent for getting under the skin of his opposing players on the field. He played 274 NRL games, along with Origin appearances for NSW and won an NRL premiership with the Cronulla Sharks in 2016. He has played fo…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. The Newcastle Knights are coming from a deflating loss to the Warriors at Tamworth last week, but Mitch Barnett is confident the real Newcastle Knights will stand up against Cronulla on Friday night after admitting he and his teamma…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. In episode 25 of Barry Toohey's Toohey's News podcast, former Newcastle Knight Steve Crowe looks back on his playing career, which included an appearance in the now famous 1997 grand final. But it's not the story heard so often befo…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. The Newcastle Knights' star utility player, Connor Watson, has declared he's staying in Newcastle. Watson - the second current Knights player to join Barry Toohey on the podcast - is laid up on the injury list after sustaining an an…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. The play should never have worked. Even in Darren Albert's own words, "what sort of person would do that - in the last seconds of a grand final, who would go down the blind side?" The answer: Andrew Johns does. Top that remarkable s…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. Former NSW and Australian representative Adam Muir made his 99th and final appearance for the Knights in the 1997 grand final. He went on to play at North Sydney (1998-99) and Northern Eagles (2000-01) then captained South Sydney in…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. Sam Stewart is the Newcastle Knight who looks back on a 24-6 defeat and doesn't call it a touch-up in the early days of the club - he called it motivation. The Newcastle Knights inaugural captain now lives on the Gold Coast and just…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. Find Toohey's News wherever you like to listen: Overcast, Stitcher, PocketCasts, Castro, RadioPublic, Breaker, TuneIn, CastBox, SoundCloud, iHeartRadio Have your say or suggest a guest for an upcoming episode by contributing a ratin…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. Find Toohey's News wherever you like to listen: Overcast, Stitcher, PocketCasts, Castro, RadioPublic, Breaker, TuneIn, CastBox, SoundCloud, iHeartRadio Have your say or suggest a guest for an upcoming episode by contributing a ratin…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. Find Toohey's News wherever you like to listen: Overcast, Stitcher, PocketCasts, Castro, RadioPublic, Breaker, TuneIn, CastBox, SoundCloud, iHeartRadio Have your say or suggest a guest for an upcoming episode by contributing a ratin…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. Darren Mooney - the Newcastle Knights' former head of football who worked for years alongside coach Nathan Brown - is a somewhat enigmatic figure in the corridors of Knights HQ, but he is the person responsible for much of the curre…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Spotify, Apple, Google, or wherever you like to listen. From day one at the Newcastle Knights to his life after football, Mark Sargent's career has put him - to uses his own words - in a group of one. The Newcastle Knights legend and former Kangaroos prop made his run-on debut with the B…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Spotify, Apple, Google, or wherever you like to listen. In Barry Toohey's words - if there is a young and aspiring player out there who wants to play in the NRL, Kurt Gidley is your role model. The younger brother another Newcastle Knights legend - Matt Gidley - Kurt readily admits he wa…
Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Spotify, Apple, Google, or wherever you like to listen. Ashley Gordon was handed an iron-on emblem. The first Newcastle Knight would have to stitch the colours onto his shirt himself. The fast young winger had played for Australian Schoolboys. He had just signed a contract for $10,000 an…
Danny Buderus is, in Barry Toohey's words, one of the 'true legends" of the Newcastle Knights and the NRL. In a stellar career through the early 2000s to present, Buderus has at one time or another performed in just about every role the game the local club have to offer. From State of Origin to Australian representative football, to legendary club …
Mitchell Pearce - the son of Balmain Tiger's legend Wayne Pearce - has walked a rocky road through his career with the NRL. He has faced scrutiny and public scorn after leading a life embroiled in off-field controversies that eventually landed him in a Thai rehabilitation clinic around 2016, but he says he has faced his demons and emerged a better …
One bad tackle - a split second - and Alex McKinnon's life was changed forever. The injured Knight was stretchered from the field in 2014. He was later diagnosed as a quadriplegic. But with support of his partner Teigan, his family, friends, and the club, Alex has gone on to become a fixture of the Newcastle Knights and the spirit of the club. McKi…
The Robbie O'Davis try was a thing to behold. The slam dunk - diving across the line limbs outstretched. The hit-and-roll, skating across the try line at top speed. But the one that is perhaps most remembered by Knights fans happened just before halftime during the now famous 1997 grand final. O'Davis joins Barry Toohey for the 10th episode of Tooe…
Former Newcastle Knight Owen Craigie joins Barry Toohey in the ninth episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast. In a broad-ranging interview, Craigie opens up on his career with the Newcastle Knights, racism in sport, and the moment he hit rock bottom. Barry Toohey reports the full story in Friday's Newcastle Herald. Search 'Toohey's News' in your favo…
The tumours had returned. The MRI had found six in his brain and, a month later, they would find it had spread to his liver. Scott Dureau - the former Newcastle Knight turned international rugby league star and later coach for his home club - had been feeling on top of the world. It had been six years since his last operation. He had been having tw…
Matt Gidley might be the only NRL player to have a play named for him. The "Gidley flick" pass has become one of the most emulated moves for a centre in the game, and in episode seven of the Toohey's News podcast, the former Newcastle Knight reveals how he developed his now-famous technique. "It was never planned," Gidley tells Newcastle Herald spo…
Newcastle Knights legend Marc Glanville played more than 180 games for the club over 10 years and bowed out of the competition on the high of the Knights' historic 1997 grand final victory. He has since become a recognised sideline broadcaster, alongside work in alcohol and drug abuse prevention, as well as notable participation in concussion resea…
The Chief - Paul Harrogan - joins Barry Toohey in Episode 5 of Toohey's News, opening up about his early years with the Newcastle Knights, his hunger to play first-grade football, and the heady days of the Knight's unforgettable rise to grand final glory in 1997. Newcastle Herald sport: All the latest news, results and analysis from the Newcastle K…
He's the was in the in-demand assistant coach from Melbourne and Sydney's prestige clubs who came to Newcastle after the shock departure of former coach Nathan Brown parted ways with the Newcastle Knights in August last year. Adam O'Brien took the helm at the beginning of the year, in his first appointment to a head coaching role, leading the team …
It was grand final week, 1997 and one Sydney newspaper had written up profiles of each of the players. Andrew Johns, arguably the best player in the game. Robbie O'Davis with an amazing side-step. Matty Johns' outstanding passing and kicking game. Mark Hughes? "As skinny as a minute-to-six and shoulders like a brown snake". The kid from Kurri was s…
Craig Hamilton started his career as a broadcaster with ABC Radio in 1994. He has had, as he calls it, "the best seat in the house" at some of the NRL's most memorable moments as national broadcaster's sideline eye, metres from the most unlikely of tries, the hardest hits, and one memorable moment where - in the words of then Knights coach Warren '…
It's all the Toohey's News you know and more ... in a podcast. The Newcastle Herald's renowned sports journalist Barry Toohey has created a new weekly podcast dedicated to all things rugby league, the NRL and the Newcastle Knights as the 2020 premiership season prepares to kick off on Saturday. Former Newcastle Knights coach Michael Hagan - a legen…
