"I don't know what's happened here - disagreements between coaches happen all the time everywhere, but you don't hear about the majority of it," Gould said.
"That's why you have coaches - if everyone agreed, it's not a very good situation either - but they've got to be able to handle the differences in opinion.
"At the end of the day, what you want in your staff is that everyone will support the final decision, whether it's their decision or not. Even if it might not be your preference, you still support the cause and if things go wrong, it's not saying 'I told you so'.
"Differences of opinion are healthy and differences in thought processes are healthy.
"The head coach, if he's recruited the right staff, he wants push back from assistant coaches. You can't just be a yes man to the head coach and let him get away with everything he wants, nor should the head coach ever want that.
"I don't know what the difference of opinion here was. If it was just as simple as 'no, we don't want you to do the Origin', I can't believe that would lead to the coach leaving.
"You'd really have to sit down and talk to Michael Maguire … at the end of the day, it's one little ship and one little captain and he's the boss and he's got to make calls.
"He's the head coach and he's got to make decisions. If you're gonna be in a position of leadership and think everyone's gonna like you, you're kidding - it doesn't work like that.
"The bottom line is whatever happened in that situation, the head coach said 'no, we're doing this' … that's what leadership is, you've got to make decisions that make people unhappy and sometimes you don't get the chance to explain your call.
"Whatever has happened here, at some stage the head coach has had to make a call and it hasn't suited Ben, so he has made the decision to quit and he's gone."
