Alcohol may not solve your problems, but neither will water or milk.
When Jamie Apostolovski got a 10-cent piece lodged in his throat, later requiring surgery, leaping into the air as Steve Simpson crashed over the try line in the seventh minute in 2001 when the Knights last made the grand final, alcohol probably played a part.
A full 25 years later, Mr Apostolovski still has the offending coin. This weekend, he won't wear a shirt with top pockets.
"It was actually the grand final, I think I was at Adamstown Rosebuds Club back then, and I was out with a few mates," Mr Apostolovski said.
"Steve Simpson scored a try, I had a shirt with a pocket in the front where I put my loose change, and as Steve Simpson crossed the line I jumped.
"For some bizarre reason, one of those 10 cent pieces got lodged in my throat. It's a miracle, but it did."
The first sign something had gone awry wasn't a lump in his throat, it was the coins missing from his top pocket.
A true-blue Knights fan both then and now, Mr Apostolovski was not about to let a little loose change stand in the way of celebrations.
At 20 years old, and with the Knights claiming victory, the National Australia Bank (NAB) cashier was keen to hit the town.
"I just kept drinking," Mr Apostolovski said.
"There wasn't much pain, but I thought if I just keep drinking it'll slowly go through. Anyways, that didn't happen because I just got more drunk and called mum asking her to take me to the hospital.
"Keep drinking was not a good solution."
When he woke up from surgery on his oesophagus, Newcastle Herald and NBN News reporters were at the foot of his bed, and the now-freed coin was in a specimen jar.
When he asked for a couple of days off work, Mr Apostolovski said his boss didn't believe him, so he sent over the Herald article as proof.
"I still work for NAB, 25 years later I'm not counting cash anymore, but I used to," he said.
"I was a teller at the time, and Armaguard used to always make jokes and take the piss out of me, this little 20-year-old who made the papers for swallowing a 10-cent piece, I had all the nicknames, Jimmy 10 cents and all the rest."
While he won't be able to make it to the grand final as he has a birthday party to attend across the road from the same place he swallowed the coin, Mr Apostolovski said he won't be wearing a shirt with pockets in the front.
"There's one reason why digital banking is better than cash," he said.
