{"id":300491,"date":"2023-05-25T21:39:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T21:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=300491"},"modified":"2023-05-25T22:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T22:58:49","slug":"giggling-bennett-shuts-down-journo-after-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=300491","title":{"rendered":"Giggling Bennett shuts down journo after win"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might have been scrappy but the Dolphins\ufeff<\/a> pulled off the club's seventh win of the season, but coach Wayne Bennett<\/a> wasn't really in the mood to talk about it.<\/p>\n

The 26-12 win over the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> moves the newest NRL franchise to 16 competition points and sixth place before other fixtures take place in round 13.<\/p>\n

While some fans are stoked by the 17th team's performance midway through the season, especially with the dire predictions leading into the year, coach Bennett wasn't about to get sentimental.<\/p>\n

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\ufeffAsked if he wanted to comment on how the first half of the Dolphins' first season was going, Bennett said: "Not really" with a wry smile.<\/p>\n

When the journalist continued on the line of the questioning, Bennett responded:\ufeff "Push as much as you like."<\/p>\n

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While he was a tough nut to crack initially, the master coach gave an insight into how he feels about his team's first year in the NRL.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"I didn't expect what I read where we were going to be (before the season)," Bennett said.<\/p>\n

"Halfway, we don't want to be running around patting ourselves on the back, we'll go to sleep."<\/p>\n

Playing his 100th game, Jamayne Isaako scored two tries and 18 points sending the Dragons to last place, with Wests Tigers' bye moving them to 10 points.<\/p>\n

Dragons skipper Jack de Belin was sin binned for a cannonball tackle and will be sweating on the match review committee's decision on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

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Dragons coach Ryan Carr \ufeffexpressed some frustration at how the decision was made.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffI want to have a look at some other things in the game that I'm really interested to see some contacts made to see if it could of been a similar outcome (to the sin bin) on the other side," he said.<\/p>\n

Carr was further pressed on whether he thought the officiating was inconsistent and agreed. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"Not from first look \ufeffbut again I don't want to make too many outlandish comments, they (Dolphins) played a good game of footy, I don't want to make too many excuses for it," he said.<\/p>\n

"But at the end of the day I've got to look after the players and going through it, there seemed to be a lot of penalties early and all of a sudden the whistle went away late so I don't understand why."<\/p>\n

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