Bent over backwards\u2019: How exiled $700k Eels star contract demand sunk Lomax deal<\/a><\/p>\nMichael Maguire\u2019s work ethic is second to none. Picture: Nigel HallettSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
Then, the family settled in. They realized that by \u201cgoing inside\u201d and locking the external door, they found a strange security in his obsession. As Adam Reynolds noted: \u201cHis work ethic and the standards that he sets… are quite unbelievable. You saw how fit we were at the back end of games. All that is due to Madge.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is a quote that should be etched into the minds of every player at Red Hill. Respect in this game is ironclad only when it\u2019s forged in the grind, and Reynolds knew that those \u201csaucer eyes\u201d were the only map to a trophy. <\/p>\n
Mam lauds Reynolds’ early impact | 01:22<\/p>\n
By the time the siren sounded on a 26-22 Grand Final win over Melbourne, the 19-year drought wasn\u2019t just broken\u2014it was scorched.<\/p>\n
But now, the noise has started again.<\/p>\n
Becoming a champion is hard work, but staying there is a different beast. When the house is quiet and the off-season adrenaline fades, the thought of doing all that work again\u2014climbing that mountain with a target on your back\u2014can visit a player late at night.<\/p>\n
But for that Bronco player having a whinge, whatever you do, don\u2019t look across the room. Madge is already there, the blue light of the laptop reflecting off his eyes. He\u2019s already on Day 2 of the title defence, and he\u2019s waiting to ask: \u201cHey Pal, how you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael Crawley has worked as an assistant coach at the Raiders, Knights and Cowboys as well as a coaching consultant with the Dragons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou can complain or you can compete\u2014but you cannot do both at the same time\u2014the choice is yours.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-517151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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