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Barry Toohey

TOOHEY'S NEWS: Tony Kemp and the Knights' legacy that made Newcastle a feared fortress

Listen to the latest episode of Toohey's News: The Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

If there was a criticism of the early Newcastle Knights, it would have been that they played a simple kind of football. Simple - and hard.

They lacked a certain flare that following generations mastered - instead, they played a brutal, crashing football that gave nothing to their opposition and cemented a legacy that Newcastle was a feared place to play; a fortress of rugby league.

But if you ask Knights legend Tony Kemp - that was the whole point.

The sire of New Zealand footy joins Toohey's News podcast host Barry Toohey this week to reveal how the Knights turned Newcastle into a feared place to play rugby league - and what the new generation can learn from their example.

Search "Toohey's News: The Podcast" on your preferred podcast app to listen to the full episode now.

Have your say or suggest a guest for an upcoming episode by contributing a rating and review in your Apple Podcasts app, or get in touch via email at news@newcastleherald.com.au.

Find Toohey's News: The Podcast on: Overcast, Stitcher, PocketCasts, Castro, RadioPublic, Breaker, TuneIn, CastBox, iHeartRadio

Barry Toohey will bring a new episode to all your favourite podcasting apps every week, complementing his premium and exclusive Knights reporting and analysis in the pages of the Newcastle Herald.

Toohey's News will be back with another episode on Thursday.

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