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Kativerata, who played his first game for Fiji with Hayne’s father Manoa Thompson, reached out to the 36-year-old after he was released from prison to check on his welfare. Conversations quickly turned to Fiji’s Pacific Championships campaign and a mentoring role. “I rang him just to talk to him and to see how he was […]
The club should also have told him, but pure football knowledge is not the strength of Newcastle’s business-savvy chief Phil Gardner. It was the perfect storm of a lack of football nous, which left Ponga looking out of touch with the way the game is run and disrespectful to a jumper that so many value. […]