“Write a story about that one, ay,” an unusually excited Wayne Bennett cheekily said as he made his way to the home team dressing rooms to address his side.
Wayne Bennett has done it again. The veteran coach walked out of the lifts underneath Suncorp Stadium after the Dolphins’ historic victory over premiership heavyweights the Sydney Roosters with a smile beaming from ear to ear.
It was unusual practice for a coach so close to kick-off and only added to the suggestion that Bennett’s appointment as the inaugural coach of the Dolphins was a PR stunt aimed at increasing interest in the NRL’s 17th and newest team. You could forgive fullback Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow for dropping the F-bomb, twice, in a radio interview with ABC after the game.With 20,000 members and over $10m in sponsorship, the club has already delivered what it promised to do off the field. No one expected them to deliver on the field so quickly.
You wouldn’t have blamed Roosters recruit Brandon Smith for thinking that perhaps knocking back Bennett and his millions may have been a mistake.
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