Inside Adam O’Brien’s Newcastle Knights revolution

Adam O’Brien empathises with his predecessor, Nathan Brown. Both have felt the weight of expectation from a success-starved, rugby league-obsessed town bearing down on their shoulders, compounded by murmurs of discontent among the hierarchy resulting in not-so subtle feelers being put out to others deemed better suited to the job.

Only the last time that happened in Newcastle, resulting in Brown walking out in protest to the club’s…