Wayne disappointed in Mal

[Big Pete]

Fair?

During the press conference, Wayne was asked continuously about the flat start. One journalist brought up the fact that Mal went away from tradition and announced the representative side before the round commenced. Wayne admitted he was disappointed and believed it affected a few of his players.

Does Wayne have a point?

Or is he just attempting to deflect the blame?

 

[Mr Fourex]

Fair?

During the press conference, Wayne was asked continuously about the flat start. One journalist brought up the fact that Mal went away from tradition and announced the representative side before the round commenced. Wayne admitted he was disappointed and believed it affected a few of his players.

Does Wayne have a point?

Or is he just attempting to deflect the blame?

Cowboys coach Paul Green has basically said the same as Bennett. Thinks part reason for the Cowboys game fade against Manly was due to a few players starting to think of the test match.

I agree with them. The test match is 2nd rate to the NRL (3rd rate if you include SOO).....so show the competition you're choosing your players from some respect.(Mal & Co)
It doesn't take much to throw a side off kilter anymore.

 

[Foordy]

When he was speaking to Fittler before the game he thought it might have a positive effect, by their minds not being on whether they would be on possible upcoming selection

 

[Son Edo]

I disagree with Bennett here, It was announced a week before the game so they should have had plenty of time to focus.

 

[Nashy]

I disagree with Bennett here, It was announced a week before the game so they should have had plenty of time to focus.

They had plenty of time to focus. For the rep game.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

I would've thought it would only make the players more resolute to perform well in the leadup. They just earned a national representative jers-.........Oh.

 

[Son Edo]

They had plenty of time to focus. For the rep game.

They're focusing on the rep game for two weeks?

 

[Alec]

I don't think it's a big deal. It was no excuse for the first half performance.

 

[Broncoman]

What was the reason to announce the team so early? I thought it was strange myself.

 

[tommy]

Probably so all the contoversy and hoo ha over Radradra's selection has a chance to die down before kick-off. That's my theory anyway.

 

[rnabokov]

Well, if a "few players" were affected v Sharks by Mal's actions, maybe what Bennett is really saying is that a true professional commits 1000% to the game at hand, not a game next week whatever it might be, and that he might have a private chat with a few players this week.

 

[Super Freak]

The players picked for Australia are senior players or at least have a lot of experience in the NRL.

If they were distracted, that's poor from them.

Fire a rocket up them, Benny.

 

[Tunza's Chin]

WAYNE Bennett, you magnificent bastard.
Hidden somewhere beneath the sensational message of how Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga inadvertently cost the Broncos top spot on the NRL ladder, there was brief recognition Brisbane lost a game of football to the Cronulla Sharks.
The architect of this masterclass of misdirection was none other than Broncos supercoach Bennett.
He got away with another one.
His prickly public persona is only part of the fascinating character that is the best coach in the NRL.
The 66-year-old is an artist of media manipulation and his performance in front of the microphones at Southern Cross Group Stadium on Sunday afternoon was another pearler.
Instead of discussing his team’s poor performance in its top-four blockbuster, it’s so much more exciting to question the impact the trans-Tasman Test team announcements had on the Broncos’ performance.
With his team surrendering top spot on the table, Bennett clicked into gear to divert attention away from his side’s sluggish first-half surrender to the Sharks.

When asked if the Test side announcement last week before round nine kicked-off hurt his team’s focus, Bennett seized upon the sideshow offering.
“I’m not going to make excuses today, but I was pretty disappointed when they announced the team this week,” Bennett said in the post-match media conference.
“I’ve been a long-time coach and I just know the impact that has on guys. We have nine guys — with one going to Tonga — we haven’t done that before and it’s just not good. Particularly with guys like Josh McGuire who have never played for Australia before.
“Corey (Parker) has a lot of jerseys, but it only takes two or three guys like him to be off a little bit in this competition and you’re under a fair amount of pressure.
“It’s not the reason we lost here today, but it’s part of the fact why we were probably a little bit flat.”
His response was the Bennett equivalent of an academic thesis compared to the gruff one-word answers the man is famous for.
Then came a follow-up question about if he could tell his representative stars were flat before Sunday’s contest. He gobbled it up.
“I addressed them yesterday,” he said.

“I kept the Australian and New Zealand players back in the room yesterday and I told them that I knew what was going on with them. I tried to help them out with how they could handle it better mentally.”
Parker, sitting alongside Bennett, had no idea why he and his teammates were not as desperate as Cronulla — but he didn’t think representative honours had anything to do with it.
“We’re all professionals at the end of the day,” he said.
“We have a job to do and we didn’t turn up in that first half. I don’t think it had anything to do with what happened during the week. Everyone has a different opinion on it.”
Here’s why Bennett’s opinion is the one that is being heard.
It’s not his first rodeo.
Long-term rugby league scribe Steve Mascord wrote the definitive rundown of how to interpret Bennett’s press-conference behaviour — and immediately you can see the genius in the St George Illawarra premiership-winning coach’s work.
Mascord’s piece from 2010, when Bennett was at the Dragons — known as the Wayne Bennett for Dummies guide — reported Bennett has eight simple principles he uses to control how his team is reported on.

Here is a truncated version:
1. When his team wins he says very little to ensure his players get the attention.
2. When his team loses he gives expansive answers and happily discusses side issues to deflect attention from his players’ performance.
3. When his team plays poorly he will only praise players in need of a confidence boost.
4. The first questions of a press conference always get a short answer so he can show who is in charge.
5. Bennett is on first-name basis with at least one local reporter. Unknown reasons.
6. Unless contractually obliged, Bennett only does one-on-one interviews with the ABC — all other digital media miss out.
7. Bennett gives up a lot of his time to help journalists working on feature stories. But he won’t go anywhere near providing on-the-record quotes for a journalist chasing a news story.
8. Once a year Bennett tells his club it’s time for his annual one-on-one media day when he holds court. It’s normally a distraction at a time in the season when his players are under pressure.
This is the hidden genius behind the great man and it happens every week.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/the-tricks-wayne-bennett-plays-to-control-message-from-press-conferences/news-story/5b33382236a6c5d3e0bae1d08ad8f24b

 

[Smartseal]

Sounds like sour grapes cos he didn't get the test gig to me.
Shouldn't make any difference with the money these guys are getting, they're expected to perform & some were found wanting.

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[broncos4life]

It amazes me that people still haven't worked out the way Bennett uses the media. After all these years and all the proof to the contrary people still think whatever Bennett says to the media is actually what he thinks.

Wayne uses the media as his puppet, to achieve the outcome he desires and the team needs.

He doesn't actually think the early announcement had anything to do with that first half. The players were off, it is as simple as that. Bennett knows that the best thing for his team is that the media don't focus on the individuals that had a bad game so he jumps on the grenade, he literally takes one for the team.

He went into that press conference looking for a distraction and the media didn't disappoint. As soon as the question was asked about the early announcement he jumps at it. Saying that there are no excuses but it certainly was a factor.

Now for the rest of the week the media are focusing on his sour grapes and dissecting his comments and talking about what a sore loser he is, speculating that it is jealousy that he missed out on the Australian gig.

While idiots like Rothfield work themselves into a frenzy and stir up the fans about what a poor sport Bennett is, what they aren't talking about it is:

Hunt's poor game - is his confidence still down from the GF? Oh my will he ever recover?

Milford being ineffectual and taking several wrong options at crucial times

Are the Broncos further off than they appear?

Josh McGuire didn't have any impact against the bigger, mostly NSW pack

Kahu having a poor game under the high ball

Parker's poor body language in the first half

Brisbane's renowned defence being undone by offloads

How much they miss Macca and Blair

So on and so on.

Bennett does what the team needs, regardless of how it will make him look.

 

[rnabokov]

I love the media, ensures I have enough salt in my diet

 

[Nashy]

It amazes me that people still haven't worked out the way Bennett uses the media. After all these years and all the proof to the contrary people still think whatever Bennett says to the media is actually what he thinks.

Wayne uses the media as his puppet, to achieve the outcome he desires and the team needs.

He doesn't actually think the early announcement had anything to do with that first half. The players were off, it is as simple as that. Bennett knows that the best thing for his team is that the media don't focus on the individuals that had a bad game so he jumps on the grenade, he literally takes one for the team.

He went into that press conference looking for a distraction and the media didn't disappoint. As soon as the question was asked about the early announcement he jumps at it. Saying that there are no excuses but it certainly was a factor.

Now for the rest of the week the media are focusing on his sour grapes and dissecting his comments and talking about what a sore loser he is, speculating that it is jealousy that he missed out on the Australian gig.

While idiots like Rothfield work themselves into a frenzy and stir up the fans about what a poor sport Bennett is, what they aren't talking about it is:

Hunt's poor game - is his confidence still down from the GF? Oh my will he ever recover?

Milford being ineffectual and taking several wrong options at crucial times

Are the Broncos further off than they appear?

Josh McGuire didn't have any impact against the bigger, mostly NSW pack

Kahu having a poor game under the high ball

Parker's poor body language in the first half

Brisbane's renowned defence being undone by offloads

How much they miss Macca and Blair

So on and so on.

Bennett does what the team needs, regardless of how it will make him look.

I read the news today too.... :takdir:

 

[broncos4life]

I read the news today too.... :takdir:

Clearly some didn't.

FTR I wasn't trying to come across as some revelation towards Bennett, this has been known by most for years.