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Brown can consider a little unlucky to not win that award given he was easily the Kiwis\u2019 best player during their successful Pacific Championships tilt. <\/p>\n
He was at his dangerous best across all three games and if he can play up to that form, Newcastle fans will be on pretty good terms with themselves. <\/p>\n
It was also a turnaround in form given his indifferent play for the Eels in 2025 which led to him being dropped for several games. <\/p>\n
Given his hefty ten-year deal worth $1.3 million a season, Brown will be under heavy pressure to perform for his new club.<\/p>\n
Fronting the media for the first time as a Knight, Brown understands the microscope he\u2019ll be under, but says his recent three-game Kiwis run has done the world for his confidence \u2026 and that of his new coach Justin Holbrook. <\/p>\n
\u201cI obviously want to play good footy no matter what. To be able to play like that for the Kiwis was good for my mental space, and for Justin too. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exciting I can play that brand of footy and hopefully I can continue that next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Dylan Brown era at the Knights is underway.Source: The Daily Telegraph<\/p>\n
Brown is the favourite to start next year in the No. 7 jersey despite playing nearly all his career as a six.<\/p>\n
Other halves on the roster include Tyson Gamble, the exciting Fletcher Sharpe and another new recruit in Sandon Smith.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been no chat around that (who will play halfback) yet. He\u2019s not sure,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy to play wherever but I don\u2019t think the number is too important at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Brown has seemed to have settled in beautifully at Knights HQ, the move from Sydney to Newcastle wasn\u2019t all smooth sailing. <\/p>\n
The playmaker revealed there was a surprise that awaited he and his young family in his new digs. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was funny, I actually moved up and there was a man living in the granny flat where I was supposed to live, which we thought was ours,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a strange welcoming, we made a new friend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High-priced Knights recruit Dylan Brown says his glittering Pacific Championships campaign did wonders for \u201chis mental space\u201d as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,2652,83315,2647,116521,62753,554,116522,2648,111,75636,139,69,2659,101765,75648,213,1734,116523],"class_list":["post-184155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-fletcher-sharpe","tag-fox-league","tag-hefty-ten-year-deal","tag-justin-holbrook","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-space","tag-new-south-wales","tag-new-zealand","tag-newcastle-knights","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oceania","tag-pre-season-training","tag-sandon-smith","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-ten-year-deal-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}