NRL: The NRL 360 panel discuss if Souths interim coach Ben Hornby and incoming coach Wayne Bennett should be talking about the club while Wayne is contracted with the Dolphins.
There are so many double standard s at play in the blow-up about Wayne Bennett being a so-called double-agent working behind the scenes on the Rabbitohs’ rebuild it is laughable.I would be more shocked if Bennett wasn’t helping Hornby and the Rabbitohs players try and get their season back on track after signing to return to Souths next year.
Same with Benji Marshall who Bennett formed a tremendous friendship with during his time helping the Kiwis and when Benji was at Souths. Yet because the Dolphins have now lost four of the past five games since Bennett’s deal at the Bunnies was confirmed, while the Rabbitohs have won all five, the Bennett haters have come out of the woodwork.
It’s an extraordinary story that should be celebrated that Bennett still has such a passion for the game that he doesn’t want to retire.WHY ISN’T WALTERS FACING SAME SCRUTINY AS ARTHUR AND DEMETRIOU?But perhaps it’s time the Broncos coach sent a thank you card and a nice bottle of red to Jason Demetriou and Brad Arthur for taking the blowtorch off him this season.
Even allowing for the fact the Broncos will be without their Origin stars, another loss here and all hell could break loose in Brisbane. Is Reynolds more important to the Broncos than Nathan Cleary is to the Panthers, or Cameron Munster to the Storm?Cooper Cronk pointed out recently that the Broncos have fallen into so many bad habits that it would be unreasonable to think Reynolds’s expected return in round 22 is going to fix all their problems.
But that still doesn’t change the fact the loss was their fifth straight, and it puts them in a precarious position so far out from the end of the regular season. We also saw with Arthur’s sacking at Parramatta making a grand final is no guarantee of long-term stability in the cut-throat world of NRL coaching.Walters could be facing an almost identical situation if the Broncos miss out this year.
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