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In this podcast
2:28 – Welcome Kurt Wrigley
2:58 – Wrigley family background
5:41 – Moving to the Sharks instead of signing with the Broncos
7:25 – Living in the Sharks house and moving to the big smoke of Sydney
8:15 – Meeting Arthur Beetson
9:58 – Getting kicked off Sharks Park
11:10 – Financial trouble at Cronulla
12:30 – Gavin Miller, ET and Mark McGaw
13:35 – Culture differences between the Sharks and Dragons
14:10 – Origins of the black head gear
15:36 – The 1994 Sharks reserve grade premiership
16:31 – John Lang
17:46 – The advantage of Saturday night at Shark Park
20:27 – Why he moved to the Dragons
21:34 – Super League and signing with the Hunter Mariners then moving to Adelaide
23:40 – The Adelaide Rams and why it didn’t work
24:14 – How he signed with Super League
25:42 – Playing with Michael Maguire with the Rams
29:16 – How he got into coaching
31:10 – The key to good assistant coaching
34:19 – When leadership became a passion for him
37:15 – How leadership has evolved over time
39:03 – Engaging players into leadership
39:50 – Is there a lack of leadership amongst the NRL teams
45:23 – Working with the referees and their unique place as a team
48:04 – Senior players and mentoring
48:37 – Sam Burgess and his injury in the 2014 grand final
50:37 – English players and their high performing nature
51:42 – The Blue shirt role
53:19 – Coach with the biggest spray
54:31 – Relating to squad players
56:05 – Moving into the corporate sector
58:35 – Language and “genuine conversation”
1:03:25 – 5 people he would invite to a private dinner party and analysis of the Last Dance
KURT WRIGLEY
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Kurt Wrigley is a former professional rugby league player and coach. He debut at the Cronulla Sharks in 1992 with his career spanning 41 games across the Sharks, St George Dragons and Adelaide Rams. He has over 20 years coaching experience and was a first grade assistant at the South Sydney Rabbitohs,St George Illawarra Dragons and Newcastle Knights while also coaching the Queensland Under 20's. Today he works as a facilitator at LeadingTeams.
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