Dean Pay and the Canterbury Bulldogs have mutually agreed to part ways effective immediately, with the two parties finalising a financial deal to end the club legend's tenure as coach | SMHsport
"I think there will be a big announcement tomorrow and Dean will have coached his last game for the Bulldogs," Phil Gould, a close friend of Pay, told"He took the job on out of a sense of loyalty to the club because they were in a precarious situation. There wouldn't have been too many other established coaches who would have taken on what he did. He's stuck it out through loyalty to the club and love of the players.
He has overseen the club's attack under head coach Ivan Cleary at the Panthers, which sit safely in the NRL's top four at the mid-way point of the season despite missing the finals last season. Trent has done an amazing job since returning to the club and we see him having a long-term future here.He is expected to be one of a number of candidates sounded out about the job, which will at least come with plenty of salary-cap arsenal, if not a battle to attract high-profile recruits to a club expected to miss the finals for a fourth straight year.
The Barrett innuendo comes as no major surprise to the Panthers after weeks of speculation the Bulldogs would decide to move on Pay at the end of the season.
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