Paul White faces health issue

Google 'radiotherapy mask', shits no joke - I felt claustrophobic in an MRI machine..

Hope to see him celebrating with the team in October.
 
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HIS hair was not quite blowing in the wind, but at least the breeze had resistance for once as Broncos chief Paul White drove for the first time in six months.

A country music aficionado, a passion he and veteran broadcaster Ray Hadley bonded over, White wound down the windows and put the key in the ignition.

“I had Slim Dusty playing,” White says.

“I drove myself to the coffee shop and got my own coffee which meant a lot.

“Getting the license back was draining actually. It was a neurological test. They flashed a lot of lights at me, tested my balance.

“Angela (his wife) has been amazing but we were wearing thin of each other’s company because she had to drive me everywhere for six months.”

White’s five minute sojourn last Wednesday was a major milestone in his recovery from brain cancer.

The tumour in White’s brain is retreating.

The bald head that gave him an intimidating edge now allows grey spikes to grow.

White is winning his battle with cancer just as he said he would last July when first diagnosed following a shock seizure.

The tumour was thankfully discovered early but its emergence occurred at the worst possible time.

This year is White’s sixth as Broncos’ chief executive.

In the first four years White sacked two coaches, one of whom was his best friend, tapped dozens of players on the shoulder and fought through a salary cap drama the club was eventually cleared of.

In 2015, the decisions he made were finally proving correct.

Brisbane’s grand final surge should have been the moment White took a breath and felt satisfied.

Instead, he collapsed as his heart rattled inside him and his hands ripped at his shirt in panic.

He underwent intensive radium treatment that left him bedridden most afternoons.

He had to rely on Broncos players, staff, and his family to accompany him everywhere he went.

Still, White remains an optimist.

His father Denis passed away in mid-January, a man so popular in Rockhampton they named a bar in his honour.

It was another test in what some would describe the worst period of his life.

Not White though.

He is recounting his past six months on Suncorp Stadium’s turf while Broncos fans form a disorderly line around him, waiting for a photograph at the club’s member’s day.

The first question is always: “How is your health?”

The response is always a broad smile.

“I look back on the last year as one of the best in my life,” White tells The Sunday Mail.

“When I hit the deck in June I thought that was it.

“Everything post that has been better.

“It has been a tough six months for the family more than me. When you are having treatment you are little bit in control but for my family the unknowns were hard to deal with.

“I have just finished four rounds of chemo.

“I had an MRI at the end of December which revealed positive signs the tumour has started to retreat.

“It is low-grade, so it grows slowly and retreats slowly but that’s what the doctors expected.

“I continue to tolerate the chemo well and it is not knocking me about too much.

“I will have three-monthly MRI’s and continue chemo therapy.

“It is not having a material impact. I do get a bit sick still, but not enough to keep my home.

“I am not a good patient though.

“The club, the chairman (Dennis Watt) and Wayne (Bennett) were terrific. I owe the club and the staff a lot.

“I have total memory of the seizure.

“If you can imagine never being sick in your life and then having a heart attack … not good.

“By the time I regained consciousness, even that day, I felt privileged. I am running with that now.

“You turn to family, friends, support, and your faith. My mum and dad gave me that faith.

“It has helped us in the last couple of weeks with what dad went through too.”

Privately, Broncos players nominate White’s strength during his brain cancer battle as a significant reason for their finals success.

Their premiership hopes were dashed after the grand final siren, yet the heartbreak of that game still elicits a smile from the country copper who became a mining executive.

“The way we won through to the grand final with two outstanding performances in front of our crowd was special,” White says.

“We fell a few seconds short, but I couldn’t fault the club or the players.

“You can’t have too many regrets.”

The Broncos are favourites to win the premiership this season.

The James Roberts signing and maturation of halves Ben Hunt and Anthony Milford expected to deliver their first trophy since 2006.

Brisbane are embracing the hype.

The club’s key performance indicator is to make the top four every year.

Realistically, if injuries are favourable, their goals should be grander this year.

“Expectations aren’t a bad thing. They are actually a positive indicator,” White says.

“Luck doesn’t play its part. It’s swings and roundabouts, and you will get good calls and bad calls.

“In this game you need to stay healthy.

“If we are relatively injury free and get into the top four come September then we have a chance.

“Every team in the NRL is striving to do that and we are no different.

“They might not articulate but they are saying it.

“Our members want to know we are working hard to win premierships.

“There’s an accountability that comes with wearing this jersey and that drives this performance.”

White signs several more autographs and soon exits to make a simple drive home that he now appreciates as a luxury.
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Thank **** he is on the improve. He knew exactly what he had to do and that was get Wayne back and he did. Good luck, bossman.
 
Yes good luck to him, he seems like a champion bloke.
 
I never liked Cullen, but I've always liked Walter White, seems like an all round quality bloke.
 
Glad to here he is on the improve. I went down to the season launch a couple years back and Paul actually knew my face from fan days and other events throughout previous years. So actually approached me and chatted for near on an hour thanking me for being a great fan telling me all about the plans for seasons ahead and just general chit chat. Absolute champion bloke.
 
He'll be on Australian Story tonight. ABC 8PM.

]The Broncos boss was diagnosed with a brain tumour last June and also recently lost his father.

But as this week's Australian Story on the ABC shows, Mr White is determined to remain in high spirits, with the help of his family – both his wife and daughters and the rugby league club he has called home for six years.


In Whitey's Way, which will air on Monday night, Mr White's career as a police officer is shown to have shaped the man who runs Queensland's biggest sporting brand.
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Broncos boss Paul White features on Australian Story
 
PHIL Gould says he is interested in luring Broncos chief executive Paul White to Penrith, hailing the man who fought off a brain tumour as the country’s best sports administrator.In a bold move that would reunite him with ex-Brisbane coach Anthony Griffin, The Courier-Mail can reveal White is the Panthers’ ideal chief executive in the eyes of Gould.
White, who should have been a serious contender for the NRL chief executive role, is off contract at year’s end in Brisbane.
Whether he would want to leave the club he helped rebuild into a $40 million force is the biggest issue. He and the Broncos did not wish to comment on Tuesday.
The Panthers lost their chief executive in February when Warren Wilson announced his shock resignation.
Penrith supremo Gould said any club would be foolish to ignore White but insisted he had not started any negotiations to poach him.
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That's it, the "Shut up Gus" t shirt is going back into rotation.

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With all due respect to Paul, would the Broncos not be the easiest club to run of any code in Australia?
 
**** off Phil, find your own CEO.
 
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With all due respect to Paul, would the Broncos not be the easiest club to run of any code in Australia?
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Why would it be any different? Administration is administration. It doesn't matter the size of the profile, great CEOs will succeed in whatever environment. If anything, the increased profile expectations of the Broncos would be more difficult to administrator.
 
He applied for the NRL job and didn't even get a call back.
 
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