Sacked coach Brad Arthur is still defending the culture at Parramatta,and a TV reporter has accused star half Mitchell Moses of swearing at him at training.
Seven-time premiership-winning coach Wayne Bennett is officially returning to the Rabbitohs – and he could be joined by one of the club’s favourite sons.
With the embers of last year’s bin fire only just extinguished,Rugby Australia is facing a fraught decision:does it bring back another colourful ex-coach to fix rugby in NSW?
They weren’t late to the party to sign the supercoach. They weren’t in the same hemisphere.
On May 11,while the rugby league world poked fun at the Eels for not pursuing Bennett’s services,club bosses boarded a flight to Brisbane to meet him at his farm.
South Sydney officials held a meeting with Bennett in Brisbane days out from Magic Round as they prepare to announce his return to the Rabbitohs.
The Dragons star’s parents and sister have lashed out at the police who investigated his case.
There was an end date placed on Wayne Bennett’s first stint at South Sydney. That won’t be the case for his expected return.
He’s into his fifth decade as an elite coach,but Wayne Bennett’s traits suit the way the modern game is played.
In the last Origin match,the Souths star was the best player on the field. But on the cusp of a milestone game,he knows his odds of suiting up this year are long.
No one would have been a keener observer of South Sydney’s latest loss than Wayne Bennett. The enormity of the job,should he wish to accept it,has just been laid bare.