MELTDOWN Wayne Bennett - Moves to Souths

[1910]

Strange I heard they're just saying that.

 

[Waynesaurus]

It'll happen, swap deal in progress.

 

[Morepudding]

Strange I heard they're just saying that.

It won't be announced until Wayne Returns from England camp. He will go to Broncos HQ and his key pass won't work and he will be escorted off the premisis ;)

In all seriousness though, I don't think anything will be announced until Wayne is back. This is because I believe Broncos are trying to sort a deal to get Wayne to South Sydney now, and Seibold to us now.

 

[Cult]

It won't be announced until Wayne Returns from England camp. He will go to Broncos HQ and his key pass won't work and he will be escorted off the premisis ;)

In all seriousness though, I don't think anything will be announced until Wayne is back. This is because I believe Broncos are trying to sort a deal to get Wayne to South Sydney now, and Seibold to us now.

He made the deal with Souths while overseas. It wouldn't be too difficult to sort out now

 

[broncos4life]

The fact that this isn’t sorted yet says everything about the administration of this once great club and where their priorities lie.

 

[broncos4life]

Strange I heard they're just saying that.

Give yourself a big pat on the back.

Clearly myself and others gave the club far too much credit, you would think I would have learnt by now.

 

[Foordy]

maybe we can get Seibold a bit cheaper :P ... we're still the ones negotiating from a position of strength.

Should Seibold turn us down, he has nowhere left to go as a head coach.

Souths pulled their offer for him, signing Bennett
Manly have 2 head coaches next season (at least the first half)
Tigers signed Maguire
Panthers signed Cleary

 

[Morkel]

And as sucky as it would be to fall back on, we still have JD and Walters who would be more than happy to accept the job.

 

[winslow_wong]

Here we go, so we’re still a chance to get stooged both ways. Bennett leaves and seibold won’t even come here. That’d be so ridiculously funny

 

[Nashy]

Waiting for Bennett to return as they need the originals for his Souths 2019 contract maybe?

 

[Unbreakable]

 

[Unbreakable]

How could the board have possibly voted unanimously today if they were at a financial meeting????

 

[theshed]

It would be funny if Seibold saw Wayne and McGuire both sign contracts, and saw the broncos humiliate Kev again (glad he wasn’t picked though), and now he can sit back and go ‘let’s discuss my pay again shall we?’

 

[winslow_wong]

How could the board have possibly voted unanimously today if they were at a financial meeting????

They crunched some numbers and did some mathletics to finalise seibolds pay

 

[ivanhungryjak]

Wow, Chris Johns seems undecided on the Wayne v AS issue ...

‘South Sydney choked’: Broncos great Chris Johns says CEO Paul White should be fired if Anthony Seibold fails

LIVID Brisbane great Chris Johns has slammed Paul White’s handling of the NRL club’s coaching transition, saying the Broncos CEO should be “marched” if new mentor Anthony Seibold is not a success.

• October 29, 2018 2:28pm
• Source: AAP

Chris Johns and Kevin Walters after the Brisbane Broncos’ grand final win in 1993.Source: News Limited
Seibold is set to be officially confirmed as Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett’s successor from 2020 at a Broncos board meeting on Tuesday night ahead of fellow candidates Kevin Walters and Jason Demetriou.
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JH: Broncs want new direction
4:48
Two-time Broncos premiership winner Johns was gobsmacked that Brisbane had overlooked Walters and replaced South Sydney-bound Bennett with an “unproven coach”, saying White should go if the move was not successful.
Seibold is set to link with Brisbane from 2020 after steering South Sydney to the 2018 NRL preliminary final and earning Dally M Coach of the Year honours in his rookie season.
Bennett has committed to next year with Brisbane after signing a two-season deal with the Rabbitohs from 2020 but has not ruled out being asked to leave a year early by the Broncos board.
“Seibold is an unproven coach. South Sydney were one of the favourites to win the premiership and they choked but everyone is walking around saying he is the (Broncos’) heir apparent,” Johns told AAP.
“Look at Kev’s record. Everywhere he has coached he has had success.
“I can’t believe the decision they have made. If we don’t get success in the next few years Paul White should be the one marched.”
Johns was angry that Walters was not only brushed for the top job but also accused the Broncos of being disrespectful to their former premiership-winning skipper during the coaching interview process.

South Sydney sign Bennett
0:48
Johns even accused Brisbane of making up their mind about signing Seibold months ago.
“They have used him up. They have put a sham of a process together to put someone who is pre-ordained to go in there,” Johns said of Walters.
“Three committee members flew straight to Sydney to talk to Seibold then when they came back and went through the process with Kev, (director) Darren Lockyer wasn’t even going to go to the interview.
“That’s how much importance they put into that interview.
“Kev is the perfect fit. So what is the agenda? Why is Seibold ahead of Kev?”
Johns said Seibold and seven-time premiership winner Bennett should swap ahead of the 2019 season otherwise the next year would be a “circus”.
“You’ve now got the South Sydney coach thinking about what is going to happen with the Broncos and vice-versa, it’s absolute idiocy,” Johns said.
“(South Sydney football manager) Shane Richardson is no dummy, he grabbed Bennett and said ‘wow I have one of the greatest coaches of all time charting the club’s future.
“The Broncos threw that away for reasons I don’t know.”

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...g/news-story/e3a35b29b9b01e01ac32863b00f09aab

 

[ivanhungryjak]

Apologies, that was probably the wrong thread. This will be interesting though, if true (It is a Badel yarn, after all).

South Sydney strips Wayne Bennett of boardroom power

• Call that kicked off Bennet, Seibold swap
• Monday Buzz: Bennett needs to walk now

WAYNE Bennett’s reign as the Big Boss is over with Souths hierarchy instructing the Broncos super coach to adhere to ‘The Rabbitoh Way’ if he wants to succeed at Redfern.
The Courier-Mail can reveal the inside story on Bennett’s signing with Souths which was so secretive it was brokered at an airport without the knowledge of Rabbitohs owner Russell Crowe.
Crowe spoke to Bennett just once — a congratulatory phone call from New York 24 hours before the 68-year-old was formally unveiled last Thursday as South Sydney’s coach from 2020.
While Hollywood megastar Crowe and Souths bosses are delighted to have Bennett on board, the NRL’s greatest coach is under no illusions about the decision-making structure at Redfern.

Russell Crowe: “we have our business in hand at South Sydney.”
At the Broncos, Bennett had the final say on hiring and firing players and enjoyed enormous clout, but at the Rabbitohs, the veteran coach will have a clearly defined role.
“Wayne will only have to worry about coaching,” Souths boss Shane Richardson said.
“The Rabbitoh Way is not for one coach to come in and change the whole club.
“If that happens, a club can be destroyed by a coach leaving.
“We have an outstanding board which allows me to do my job and from my discussions Wayne is happy to come in and just be the coach, just as ‘Seibs’ (Seibold) was.
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“Wayne will coach and select the side, but the recruitment and the other decisions, we will run the club as we run it now.
“Seibs didn’t recruit the side, the club did, and when ‘Madge’ (Michael Maguire) won the comp (in 2014), he didn’t recruit the side, we did.
“Obviously we will consult Wayne on some things but like our previous coaches, who did a great job, we just want him to worry about coaching.”

South Sydney Rabbitohs GM Shane Richardson. Picture: AAP
Throughout his unrivalled 30-year coaching career in the big league, Bennett’s power has been largely unfettered.
The seven-time premiership-winner has built clubs on his terms dating back to his debut year at the Broncos in 1988, when he famously told Brisbane’s founders not to interfere with his job as coach.
That stance has put Bennett on a collision course with current Brisbane CEO Paul White, leading to his demise at a Broncos club set to appoint Souths’ coach Seibold as his successor.
Surprisingly, Rabbitohs owner Crowe was not as involved in the Bennett poaching raid as some would believe.
Richardson was waiting to board a plane for a Fijian holiday on October 10 when he fielded a call from a third-party associate who asked if Souths would consider signing Bennett to replace Seibold.

Broncos to confirm Seibold as next coach
Bennett only agreed in principle to coaching Souths at 1pm last Wednesday, four hours before Seibold failed to meet a 5pm deadline on a four-year extension at the Rabbitohs.
A Souths contract was sent to Bennett’s email in England, where he is coaching the British team in a three-Test series against the Kiwis.
Crowe had no idea Bennett was in talks with the Rabbitohs until Richardson effectively sealed the deal.
The 54-year-old movie star endorsed the Bennett raid, saying he had full faith in Richardson and the Rabbitohs board.
“We have our business in hand at South Sydney,” Crowe said.
“Appointing Wayne Bennett was a unanimous decision by the board, the administration and the football staff.”

https://www.couriermail.com.au/spor...r/news-story/86fa3f485a4c3bdb8aeb621d22fc9136

 

[Waynesaurus]

If Souths think Wayne is just going to sit back, just coach and have very little to no input into recruitment then they are going to be in for a big surprise, particularly if performances and results are poor.

 

[Unbreakable]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...h/news-story/01a12d1e1ad93b93cebdbb6097f1750c

The Broncos board heard how Seibold blitzed the interview process, with the 44-year-old former university lecturer rated “a cut above” Walters, Demetriou and Maguire in their respective presentations.
Seibold also performed well in psychometric testing held by an independent company, giving the Broncos board compelling evidence he has the skill-set to break the club’s 13-year premiership drought.
White was in the final stages of talks with Seibold and his management tonight.
Speculation has suggested Seibold could be handed a massive five-year deal but the Broncos will come under pressure to match the four-year extension tabled by the Rabbitohs.
Should Brisbane’s board ratify a four-year deal, Seibold’s contract with the Broncos would be worth in excess of $3 million.