Nathan Brown Quotations

Short term I don't think it will have a dramatic effect. But in the medium term and the long term it shakes up the equilibrium and basically plunges us into the unknown.

I think Trent got the captaincy because he was the best player at the time, not because he was a good captain,

We want to get out there and win the game, but if we can show some good signs I'll be happy.

There's always going to be people critical, for us this year if we don't win the comp, people say it's failure. People say last year was a failure. All coaches are under pressure, it doesn't matter where you're coaching , I just think the expectation on some clubs is higher than others. We don't profess to be the greatest coaching staff in the world, but we think we've done a reasonable job.

When I first got the job I didn't think that we lacked leadership. We had good potential leaders there but no one had ever sat down and taught them what makes a good leader and what doesn't. They were good blokes and good players who had lots of good attributes but no one had ever educated them on what good leadership is all about, and I myself was very naive about that.

The second half was a bit lacklustre at times,

It was good to have a run and a kick and it felt good to be out there, but I've still got some work to do . . . looking to Round 1 now.

They (the administration) made a decision to invade Iraq, and then started to search for a policy to justify it. It was a decision in search of a policy and because of the odd way they went about it, people are trying to read something into it.

Cutting off funding entirely is a bad option that may provoke economic collapse and humanitarian disaster in the West Bank and Gaza.

Getting a nine-run lead in the second gave me some confidence. It allowed me to focus on pitching instead of worrying about making a mistake. All I had to do was get them to put it in play and let our defense do the rest.