What's really going on at the Newcastle Knights is a power play between the imperial Novocastrian leader Phil Gardner and controversial player agent Isaac Moses.
Unfortunately for Adam O'Brien - who is a decent bloke and has shown over the course of the last month the roster is invested in playing for him - the Newcastle coach has been caught in the crossfire.
Like numerous other NRL clubs dating back a number of years now, Gardner has recently realised the amount of control Moses has created at his club and has set about trying to shake things up.