broncsgoat
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winslow_wong
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How come Bennett won’t give Macca a call?
Foordy
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mitch222
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Well since the media are linking all our players to other clubs, lets start some linking of our own.
I heard DCE done his hamstring the other day on purpose so he can fly to Brisbane to start looking at houses for next year with plans to take the captaincy, the club and the halfback role.
Ponga is going to request a trade from the Knights for Boyd plus a first round draft pick and some cash consideration from the knights.
Here's the real doozy, Maranta is said to be homesick so we are going to trade the dragons a packet of opened dorritos for the services of Maranta for the next 5 years.
I heard DCE done his hamstring the other day on purpose so he can fly to Brisbane to start looking at houses for next year with plans to take the captaincy, the club and the halfback role.
Ponga is going to request a trade from the Knights for Boyd plus a first round draft pick and some cash consideration from the knights.
Here's the real doozy, Maranta is said to be homesick so we are going to trade the dragons a packet of opened dorritos for the services of Maranta for the next 5 years.
Huge
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Lodge is homesick...then he becomes aware of the talk? Wouldn't he know if he's been saying he's homesick? Like, it would have come out his mouth thingy and he probably would have heard it before anyone else!
tommy
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I dunno...were the doritos on special that week? It's gotta be believable.
Scorchie
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Aren’t Roberts and Lodge under contract? How is this talk allowed? Maybe it’s time for media to be fined/loss of accreditation if they pump up contracted players
Aldo
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Danny trying really hard to be the new Buzz. All he needs now is a bottle of vodka and a fucked liver.
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Alec
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Damn, we can't drop Jack Reed now
Jason Simmons
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Braith Anasta’s cousin talking again?
007
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LOL Crawley trying to suggest Moses is in the frame and they all share the same manger...
Scorchie
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Can we go back to the days when Wests and Parramatta dominated the headlines [emoji24]
TonyTheJugoslav
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Buck has also been offered a 5 year deal by Wayne.
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pagey
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Maybe all these player rumours are to keep the media from going all Bennett v seibold crazy. Could see Wayne starting some rumours to keep the leeches at bay
ivanhungryjak
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I've noticed that the Sydney media, especially News journo's, have done a complete 360 on Bennett. He's gone from the spawn of the devil to a crafty old supercoach. Even Kent is talking him up.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...s/news-story/385171842b52bbb8cee4388bd0c6868aWayne Bennett schooling Anthony Seibold in rugby league’s dark arts
It took only a light dusting for Anthony Seibold to stand and walk from his press conference and reveal how far he still must travel.
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After the Broncos win over Cronulla Seibold was asked about bad feelings among his former South Sydney players, which there certainly was at his leaving, and he tried a simple throw off.
“I am not sure what that question is about,” he said. “I am not sure what you want me to say.”
Seibold passed up the chance to stir the pot this week. Image: AAP Image/Darren England
What the reporter wanted him to say was that he hates the Rabbitohs and can’t wait to stick it up them this Thursday with his mighty Broncos team, which might have been a touch hopeful on the reporter’s part, but no feud is too precious in rugby league it can’t do with a gentle nudge.
At the very least Seibold should first have realised the question was coming and to have something prepared. There are a thousand dry comebacks to such questions.
The reporter, Scobie Malone, followed up his question with one much the same, a gentle prompt for Seibold to talk.
“You’d have to ask them,” Seibold said, with some finality. “I am not sure where that question comes from — I will leave it at that guys.”
And with that he stood and walked.
To see how it should be done all Seibold needed to do was look at his co-star in this week’s storyline.
A night earlier Wayne Bennett was humming an old tune. Bennett got a question about coaching against his former club at his own press conference and a side of his face smiled, while the other side tried to play catch up.
“Who are we playing next week?” he asked.
“I don’t know. I’ll go home and look at the diary and see who we’ve got next week.”
Wayne Bennett knows how to play the media. Image: AAP Image/Dean Lewins
There will be blood on the floor this week.
It is the kind of week where Bennett will spend all his time pretending it does not matter to him when it means absolutely everything to him, and all around people will marvel at the old master playing his head games.
Seibold is still learning the rules, but he has a score to settle.
Eight months ago Seibold was coaching South Sydney and Bennett was coaching the Broncos as the complete soap opera, with full trim, was being played out in backrooms.
This particular August week the unwitting Seibold took his South Sydney team to Brisbane, straight into an ambush.
He had no idea it was at the height of the brawl between Bennett and the Broncos.
Brisbane chairman Karl Morris and CEO Paul White got done by Bennett. Image: AAP Image/Albert Perez
Bennett had fought for his job all year but a month earlier he got a letter from chairman Karl Morris detailing the Broncos plans, in some overseeing role, for when Bennett stepped down after 2020.
It was a solid offer but all it told Bennett once was that any hope he held about extending his job as coach was gone once and for all.
The fight to remain coach was over. Only Bennett didn’t want another job in the organisation, he wanted to be coach.
He always considered himself a coach. At first it seemed wholesome and somewhat noble. A man with no ambition further than his station, no desire in life beyond helping young men achieve their own dreams.
But as Bennett’s life changed dramatically in recent years some of the shine wore off that.
Seibold walked into a man-made storm at the Broncos. Image: AP image, John Gass
The Broncos had already offered the Craig Bellamy the job and Bennett’s time was finalised.
A week before Bellamy’s knock-back last June, though, a story broke that Brisbane had a contingency plan. It was underplayed and got lost in the dozen different storylines swirling around Bennett and Bellamy and the Broncos.
The rumour was certainly doing the rounds, though.
The Broncos had identified Seibold as Bennett’s possible replacement. Giving the rumour great strength was Seibold’s own confirmation that he asked Rabbitohs boss Shane Richardson to delay negotiations to extend his contract beyond 2020 until after the season.
Seibold was doing terrifically well at South Sydney. The Rabbitohs were top four and had returned to the kind of football that took them to the premiership in 2014 and Richardson’s gamble on Seibold made him look a winner, too.
Bennett had one hope left for an extension and that was public support. Nobody knew of the letter from Morris or what the Broncos’ plans were and so, perhaps, with a public campaign the will of the people might force the Broncos to change.
He was the man who had coached all six of the club’s premierships, after all.
Bennett began talking publicly about his frustration at the Broncos. Unlike him.
Bennett played the furore to his benefit last time out. Image: AAP Image/Dave Hunt
Then that August week, when Souths flew to Brisbane to play the Broncos, a story leaked that the Broncos had secretly spoken to Seibold.
Richardson called the coach, angry that he had not told him. Seibold denied any conversation had taken place but, in the week he played the Broncos in a crucial game, he was forced to deal with all the speculation, the pressure at its greatest.
Bennett’s Broncos ended up pumping Souths. The Rabbitohs players appeared distracted.
Seibold left Brisbane confused and dazed.
He can’t prove a thing but, later when it all cleared, he is certain Bennett had something to do with the story that was leaked.
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