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As Coxy alluded to earlier in the thread, perhaps Bennett's complete lack of respect for the media has been grasped by and rubbed off onto Hairyass Boys.
Bennett's attitude in this regard wore thin during his large stint with Brisbane and now it could be having an impact on St. George-Illawarra.
I know Ivan isn't much better with his media work and covering up unsatisfactory performances with cliche, tried and tested lines, but at least he isn't as misely as Bennett was.
Biases aside, isn't it good that we as a club don't have to endure such Bennett-esque trash in this particular area anymore and have it possibly "wash off" onto our players?
Such players should be mature enough to understand that the way Bennett deals with the media isn't to be replicated though.
Who cares? He can do what he likes. The media trashes these guys all year and expects them to dance like monkies. Bennett is not the type to pretend that all is forgiven when it's not.
What do you guys want from these press conferences anyway? What do you hope to learn from the perfect press conference that you didn't already know. Anyway I am not convinced that the players are talking to "the fans" at these conferences. They are providing sound bites to the media. In depth interviews on radio, TV and print are where we learn about the players or teams, not at press conferences.
I think now that I've had time to think about it, it was more the "shock" of his interviewing persona being so different to the usual. Couldn't agree more that the interviews are exceptionally useless and that the responses given by the players are cliched in the extreme and lacking any insight whatsoever.
It would be a real shake up if Boyd's actions in this particular media interview were to create almost a new player interview mentality and thought process.
It's either you as the interviewer start asking more insightful and direct questions or the players being interviewed put away their cliche response books and start providing somewhat insightful answers which will benefit the viewer and average Rugby League follower.
Would be interesting if this process became " revised"in terms of the mentalities of the respective parties.
Nothing will change though, but the actions of Boyd certainly have added an unusual reaction to usual player "interviews" pre and post match.
The fact is, he comes across as a knob. Yes the questions were shit, as usual, but if he had that much of a problem with them he should have just said so rather than acting like a petulant teenager.
It's not a big deal though. His coach had a word to him and so will his CEO, so the issue is closed as far as I'm concerned.
Wendell on the Today show this morning said he's going to take Darius under his wing and teach him how to work the camera - god help us all if there winds up to be another Wendell out there!