Ricky Stuart and Corey Horsburgh didn't speak for a year. When they did, everything changed

Ricky Stuart and Corey Horsburgh didn’t speak for a year. When they did, everything changed

Strained relationship between Horsburgh and Stuart due to demotion, lack of communication resolved after time.

The Sydney Morning Herald

For the best part of a year, Corey Horsburgh and Ricky Stuart did not speak.

The Canberra coach had decided last pre-season that Horsburgh, a State of Origin prop who had just signed a rich three-year extension, was not going to start the year in first grade.

By his own admission, Horsburgh did not take the news well.

"I didn't think I'd play again for the Raiders, to be honest," he says. "No one was talking to me or anything. I didn't think I would ever play for [Stuart] again, that he had just put a line through me.

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