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Not sure if you're pissed but are you saying we're NOT better run than Manly?
MELTDOWN Wayne Bennett - Moves to Souths
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Jason Simmons
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Hang on, I’ll just tweet Peter Badel and Chris Johns and find out...
Seeing as though the official statements from Bennett, the Broncos, Souths and Seibold are all apparently unreliable...
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Jason Simmons
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Well let me see. One club has Trent Barrett and Des Hasler contracted for next year.
One has Bennett and no-one else contracted for next year.
Hang on, I’ll count my fingers and see if I can work it out mathematically, seeing as though number of contracted coaches seems to be the determining factor in how well a club is run...
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Good because I said that it makes me feel better knowing we're better run than Manly. That implies I believe we are better run than Manly. So you've lost me there.
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You compared our club to being better run than two basket case clubs, implying that while better we aren’t that much because of this current ‘controversy.’
You weren’t suggesting we are well run...
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Seriously. Stop. I never said that. Read it again. Or stop drinking.
Jason Simmons
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Okay, let’s just pretend you never posted these and called the club’s situation a mess to begin this conversation. You clearly aren’t interested in discussing the matter that you brought up...
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Jason.....Might I suggest that internet arguments aren't so important that they need to be forensically investigated
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I’m flattered that you went to so much time to sift through my posts. Yet still stuffed it up...
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How you gonna get that texta off your screen?
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I made it easy for them last time': Bennett stoush 11 years in making
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To fully understand the calamity that is the Wayne Bennett-Brisbane Broncos coaching stand-off, you have to go back 11 years, almost to the day.
In late 2007, Bennett was on the nose at Red Hill. After 21 seasons, the foundation coach synonymous with the powerhouse club had lost the support of News Corporation, the majority shareholder of the publicly listed company which owned the club.
BRONCOS
Fast forward 10 years and we're back where we were. With a year to run on his deal, Bennett is on the nose. New Corporation has fallen out of love with him for a second time.
After results didn't go their way without Bennett, who went on to win a title with St George in 2010, Lachlan Murdoch personally courted him and brought him back. On big money.
As a board member said at the time: "We just have to have him back. We're losing and the Broncos can't tolerate that. Our supporters and corporate supporters can't tolerate that".
However, after four moderate seasons, which included a grand final appearance in 2015, this time it's over for real.
Murdoch, who has loved the Broncos from the moment he was sent to Brisbane as a young executive by Rupert in 1994, has instilled his trust in CEO Paul White to run the club his way – a more modern, corporate way.
Karl Morris, the rugby union fan big-time accountant was installed by News as the chairman. There was no room for a coach who "ran the whole show".
The club courted Craig Bellamy – and failed – eventually settling on South Sydney's promising young coach Anthony Seibold, an old mate of White's from their days growing up in Rockhampton.
Bennett signed with Souths, but neither coaching deal begins until 2020, as they are both contracted to their current clubs for 2019.
And this is where Bennett is drawing on what happened 10 years ago.
"Ten years ago, I made it easy for them. This time around, I won't be making it easy for them," is what he has told his very inner circle.
Bennett will leave now, only if sacked and paid his full $1.1 million for 2019. He can add that to the $900,000 he will earn at Souths and it's a $2 million year.
But ego is in the way.
Around the globe, News Corp pays out executives at its operations regularly when things don't work out. It's a cost of business.
This is no different – Bennett should be seen as an executive at one of the companies it controls. Which is exactly what Brisbane Broncos Ltd is, a company in which News has a controlling share.
But football is different. And neither side will budge. "You can't let the other side win".
In the end, the Broncos and News will have no choice but to part with the $1.1 million and move on. It's the cost of doing business.
The current situation is intolerable – just as losing was.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/i-...toush-11-years-in-making-20181123-p50hxy.html
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This inner circle, it’s the one at the end of the rainbow, is it not?
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To suggest that there is no 'mess', IE. Conflict of Interest (Massive one), is short sighted and it's slightly confusing that ANY Broncos or Rabbitohs fans would now want to stick with the coaches this year. If you can't see the massive conflict for what it is, well, I don't know how to explain it to you to make you realise that it is indeed a hell of a mess.
And say what you want about the media, hate them all you like, but if the coach is going stealth, and hiding out in the back of utes, well, it's a ****ing mess.
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Not only that, there are two quotes in the article which make it sound like here are sources...except neither quote is directly from anyone.
So now the media is making up quotes that ‘probably’ happened now. How grossly unprofessional.
