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From Barry Toohey's column
Levi stuns coach with release request
A clearly frustrated Newcastle Knights hooker Danny Levi walked into Nathan Brown’s office early last week and stunned the coach by asking for a release from his contract.
Not surprisingly, his request was denied.
Despite his struggles this season behind in-form hooker Slade Griffin, Brown and head of football Darren Mooney still regard Levi as an important part of the club moving forward.
So they weren’t about to give him a free pass to leave.
“It's true he came in to see us. But its a simple case of Danny not being happy with playing reserve grade and nothing more than that," Brown said.
“That’s actually a good thing. We don’t want any of our players being happy with playing reserve grade.”
Brown denied Levi was only back in the top grade last night against the Panthers to appease him because of his request.
“Not true. Moons [Mooney] and I went down and watched our Cup side play Wyong last Saturday and Danny played very well along with Josh King,” Brown said.
“That’s the reason he and Josh were picked."
https://www.theherald.com.au/story/5396159/sporting-column-tooheys-news/?cs=306
Levi stuns coach with release request
A clearly frustrated Newcastle Knights hooker Danny Levi walked into Nathan Brown’s office early last week and stunned the coach by asking for a release from his contract.
Not surprisingly, his request was denied.
Despite his struggles this season behind in-form hooker Slade Griffin, Brown and head of football Darren Mooney still regard Levi as an important part of the club moving forward.
So they weren’t about to give him a free pass to leave.
“It's true he came in to see us. But its a simple case of Danny not being happy with playing reserve grade and nothing more than that," Brown said.
“That’s actually a good thing. We don’t want any of our players being happy with playing reserve grade.”
Brown denied Levi was only back in the top grade last night against the Panthers to appease him because of his request.
“Not true. Moons [Mooney] and I went down and watched our Cup side play Wyong last Saturday and Danny played very well along with Josh King,” Brown said.
“That’s the reason he and Josh were picked."
https://www.theherald.com.au/story/5396159/sporting-column-tooheys-news/?cs=306