Like his team, Wolfpack coach Brian McDermott took the hard road to the top Globe_Sports
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Brian McDermott, manager of Toronto Wolfpack looks on ahead of the Betfred Super League match between Toronto Wolfpack and Castleford Tigers at Emerald Headingley Stadium on February 02, 2020 in Leeds, England. Four-time Super League-winner McDermott knows that in a physically demanding sport such as rugby, running his players into the ground is a fool’s game.
“[The Brooks] scenario has played out many times in many different sports where the coach is this aloof figure on the side of the field and he just keeps shouting ‘Again’,” he says, having watched the movieMcDermott is no stranger to the silver screen himself, having been featured in a documentary called, which took an in-depth look at the revitalization of Leeds Rhinos, one of Super League’s heavyweight teams.
“Rugby league players aren’t the toughest guys on the planet,” he says. “Every one of them is soft, every one of them’s a coward, every one of them is courageous. “He made an impact on my life, especially on the field, but just as much off the field,” the former Fijian international says. “[Particularly in] some of the ways I might view hardships or changes, challenges and adversities that we all go through in our lives.”Having been a part of the squad that came up one win short in 2018, falling to London Broncos in the Million Pound Game that year, Sims recognizes the differences, albeit slight, that McDermott brought to the team.
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