"Michael Hagan" is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He currently works as the director of football at the Newcastle Knights and as an assistant coach under Mal Meninga for the record-breaking Queensland rugby league team. A Queensland rugby league team/Queensland State of Origin series/State of Origin representative Rugby league positions#halves/half, he played his club football in Australia with Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs/Canterbury-Bankstown (with whom he won the 1988 NSWRL season/1988 and 1985 NSWRL season/1985 premierships) and Newcastle Knights/Newcastle (whom he captained), as well as in England with Halifax RLFC/Halifax. He went on to have a successful coaching career with Newcastle (winning the premiership with them in 2001) and Parramatta Eels/Parramatta, and was also selected to coach the Queensland Maroons for two State of Origin series before becoming Meninga's assistant coach. Hagan was inducted into the Newcastle Knights Hall of Fame in April, 2012.

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It's probably the first time for a little while that I can recall having something like our best 17 available for round one.

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

I wouldn't expect them to change that.

It was good to know it wasn't a serious injury and it was only a week, which is what we hoped for.

He got through today pretty well and we'll just see how he pulls up in the morning and go from there.

You can only do so much at training and I just think he will be better off mentally by having some game time.

He didn't play any football, he played seven games I think, for us last year.

I guess he is so important to them and he is doing things pretty smartly in terms of where he defends, so he hasn't had a lot of traffic at him in the last couple of weeks.

It was a huge brand, a huge business and a huge opportunity.