NRC: Kefu & Thorn – Legends placing performance over results
by Paul Cook -
Getting interview time with one legend of the game is a pretty good day at the office for this part-time scribe, but a chat with two in the same afternoon is cause for celebration. That it happened to be off the back of a defeat for the team they are both now affiliated with, making that actually the fifth defeat in a row for the team they are both now affiliated with, was the only downside. But hey, when Toutai Kefu and Brad Thorn are in town, you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do, right?
Now forming two-thirds of the Queensland Country coaching ticket in this year’s NRC, with Kefu as head coach and Thorn joining last year’s overseeer Jason Gilmore as an assistant, they were at Concord Oval last Saturday to run the rule over their youthful charges as they took on the Western Sydney Rams. With both sides winless, it loomed as a potential battle to avoid the dreaded wooden spoon.
But not only was the seemingly evergreen Thorn there to continue his coaching appre