Falcons full-back keen to contribute more off the field now he is reunited with former coach after unexpected exit from Harlequins
Sometimes you need to go back to go forward and when Mike Brown joined Newcastle in the summer, in a sense he went back to the start.
It was Dean Richards who gave him his debut at Harlequins in 2005, and Richards who persuaded the full-back to move to the north-east after Quins told him, to his disbelief, that his services were no longer required.