“If the Dolphins had any other coach it wouldn’t have had nearly the same vigour and excitement as what has happened with Benny (Wayne Bennett),' Brisbane’s founding director Barry Maranta says.
Brisbane’s founding director Barry Maranta says the Dolphins are the best thing that could have happened to the Broncos.Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow of the Dolphins celebrates scoring a try against the Broncos on Friday night. A record stand-alone crowd for a club game of 51, 047 attended the Broncos’ 18-12 win at Suncorp Stadium.Maranta was one of the four founding directors of the club who recruited Wayne Bennett as founding coach in 1988.
“The Broncos recently asked me to speak to their commercial and marketing team and I said to them, ‘the Dolphins are the best thing that has happened to you’,” Maranta told AAP. “If the Dolphins had any other coach it wouldn’t have had nearly the same vigour and excitement as what has happened with Benny . He is just the master of organising a football team and what surrounds it.”A record stand-alone crowd for a club game of 51, 047 attended the Broncos’ 18-12 win over the Dolphins on Friday night 27 years after the previous local derby at the same ground where 34,263 fans attended a Broncos-South Queensland Crushers clash.
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