Wayne Bennett

Uh, Cody Walker suffers a calf injury in the opening half.

That led to absolute chaos in terms of the interchange because the super coach Wayne Bennett decided, uh, that he was gonna roll Jai Gray into playing dummy half in attack and then defending at either five-eight or further out, uh, on the wing on the left edge for the Bunnies.

Uh, and then the other one was Alex Johnston in the second half, uh, also suffered what looked to be a, a bit of a groin injury, Choc.

It really was, what could go wrong, uh, in terms of injuries did go wrong for the Bunnies tonight.

It's a credit to everyone at that club that has anything to do with that club.

You know, I take my hat off to them.

I think that shows the experience of Wayne Bennett, uh, because there are very few scenarios in rugby league that he hasn't encountered.

But for Jai to be as positive-

Like w-we have a very-

Wayne Bennett's still going around in the NRL time after time after time.

We, we do have...

Well, I guess my question is, Jimmy, if, um, if North Melbourne were to, say, hire John Longmire-

Like we, we have a very-

Wayne Bennett's still going around in the NRL time after time after time.

We, we do have...

Well, I guess my question is, Jimmy, if, um, if North Melbourne were to, say, hire John Longmire-

Then you got last week against the Chooks is ...

Well, they've got the best coach in the world to, to get them through it in Wayne Bennett, the super coach, so you know, the best in the NRL era.

But there's gotta be a time when they're just a little bit off, doesn't it?

You reckon? Well, I, I, I look at it the other way, Woodsy.

Yeah.

The thing is, I just look at the facial expressions of Wayne Bennett.

He knows he's got a good side there.

Yeah, he does.

I'll tip the Rabbitohs as well, MG.

I think Wayne Bennett has left his timing just perfectly.

He's got big stars coming back into the team.

He knows how to get players up for finals football, and the Rabbitohs are one of those teams I've, the last couple of years under Bennett's coaching, I've had... thoughts that they'd dominate the competition.

They went on, they put up a big score, and they'd be more confident again just out of seeing Latrell play, getting some minutes back in the last couple of weeks to a couple more players in you for feeders, Murray's sort of form line that he's hit, et cetera, and also what they did for Jairo the last two weeks and for him to hit the 100.

The moment with Wayne Bennett and Cody Walker, said it before, said it during the year, multiple times now, if that has not made you cry, you're not human.

And he's been just incredible.

Well done to both clubs, the NRL, and everyone again for what's happened around the Jairo situation.

Is that possible? Yes, it is possible.

But from an NRL perspective, particularly that he's close with his family and somewhere in Sydney, I think there's plenty of teams that could use him.

He's another one that suits a Wayne Bennett situation.

I know they're...

I think it's a huge boost for their footy club and all the guys that are going to be running out there alongside him tonight.

I heard Wayne Bennett's comment during the week saying, well, I don't have too much expectation on Latrella.

He hasn't played a lot of footy of late.

I just need him to go out and do his job.

Not an interesting talking point, actually, from Gary Peek in chat, and Gary said this a little bit back, but we're sort of lost in the source of our discussion, but...

Circling back to the CEO stuff just very briefly, Craig, Gary said that he was listening to Triple M and apparently on the radio at some point they were saying that Parrot sounded out Blake Solley, who was the South CEO, but Blake's got a handshake agreement with Benny that as long as the Cowboys, as long as they are, what's it called, the Clint Eastwood of the NRL, there we go, got there, Wayne Bennett is there, Solley will be there.

And look, Solley's not a good target, so it's a case of the right process here from the heels, if that's the truth.

If they're targeted by Sully, he's a good operator, like the two Camerons.