{"id":133870,"date":"2021-09-24T21:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T21:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=133870"},"modified":"2021-09-25T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T02:00:10","slug":"bennett-blasts-broncos-after-making-10th-gf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=133870","title":{"rendered":"Bennett blasts Broncos after making 10th GF"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne Bennett lashed the Brisbane Broncos, saying his former club undermined him in his pursuit for the South Sydney job, after guiding the Rabbitohs<\/a> to their second grand final in eight years.<\/p>\n

South Sydney became the first team through to the 2021 decider with a 36-16 win over Manly<\/a> but the focus shifted to Bennett's ugly exit from the Broncos after the master coach qualified for his tenth grand final.<\/p>\n

Sitting next to captain Adam Reynolds<\/a>, who will join Brisbane next season, Bennett spent 15 minutes with the media after full-time and couldn't help taking a shot at his old club.<\/p>\n

The 71-year-old said the Broncos "undermined" him during his split from Red Hill to join Souths at the end of 2018.<\/p>\n

\"Turbo<\/p>\n

"I will say publicly that they [Brisbane] undermined me in the conversations with Souths," Bennett said.<\/p>\n

"So they didn't do a little job on me they did the best possible job they could have done on me.<\/p>\n

"But to Souths' credit there were some people there that had worked with me before and they were happy to bite the bullet and give me the opportunity.<\/p>\n

"I owe Russell Crowe [Rabbitohs co-owner] and hopefully tonight there is some repayment in what the team has done that means so much to him.<\/p>\n

"And the chairman Nick Pappas as well has been wonderful and all the board so I have had tremendous support there and it has been refreshing to be honest.<\/p>\n

"The last three years have been as refreshing a three years as I have had in coaching for a long time."<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Bennett, who is famous for his short and sharp press conferences, was asked if he felt vindication because the Broncos thought he was washed up.<\/p>\n

"They felt a lot of things," Bennett said.<\/p>\n

"I wasn't listening to them because I have spent a lifetime being honest with myself and if I thought I was washed up as a coach I wouldn't coach another day because I would let too many people down.<\/p>\n

"And I'll determine that. No one is going to determine that for me. So nothing has changed for me.<\/p>\n

"If I want to coach I will look to coach and make a contribution. I learned that as a young coach about when you should retire and when you shouldn't retire because I worked with a coach that didn't have the ambition anymore and the passion for it.<\/p>\n

"But I'm not at that stage."<\/p>\n

If Bennett can claim another grand final win – it would be his eighth – and would make him the first coach since Tim Sheens in 2005 to do so after being sacked by their previous club.<\/p>\n

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