NRL: Wayne Bennett will take on his former club Newcastle for a spot in the finals, with Steve Crawley revealing a confrontation between Kayln Ponga and Wayne Bennett.
Now Wayne Bennett and Kalyn Ponga will go toe-to-toe in a season-defining clash , two seasons after the Newcastle fullback left a meeting with the super coach “offended”.
“Wayne’s meeting with Kalyn when he was trying to recruit him to the Dolphins in 2022. They went to Terrigal, I think it was the Star of the Sea resort,” Fox League’s Paul Crawley said on NRL360 on Tuesday night.“He said ‘do you want to be a rock star and keep walking around like you’re a cool dude or do you want to be a footballer’.
He won the Dally M Medal, steering the Knights to the finals whilst only playing 20 games after an ugly concussion cast doubts on his NRL future. The club’s next coach Rick Stone was then sacked after 18 games. The next man in charge in 2016 was Nathan Brown who was public in his criticism of Bennett’s tenure.
Newcastle faithful were turning against their football team, but with a magical ten-game winning streak, the Knights stole back their hearts in 2023. Bennett went deep into his bag of tricks to stun the Broncos in Round 26, making a host of positional changes despite not training with the new-look team during the week.
“Wayne concerns me, Wayne concerns me. I have watched the Dolphins in the last month or so and they haven’t looked up,” Johns said on the Matty Johns podcast. Johns also outlined how impressive it would be for the Dolphins to make the finals, considering the hurdles new franchises face in the early days.
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