The Cessnock Curtain: How Fletcher Sharpe – and his hair – became the face of Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald - Oct 2, 2026

Son of a coalminer. Mullet aficionado. Cessnock Goannas junior. If there is a more Knights man in Newcastle than Fletcher Sharpe, we are yet to find him.

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