Jarryd Hayne, Neil Henry both at fault in feud that is killing Titans

BLOG WITH PAUL KENT NOW: With each new day comes a new layer in this saga and only one fact is certain: all this talk of Jarryd Hayne and Neil Henry is enough to kill a brown dog.

Jarryd Hayne and Neil Henry. Picture: Getty Images

WITH each new day comes a new layer in this whole damn saga and only one fact is certain: all this talk of Jarryd Hayne and Neil Henry is enough to kill a brown dog.

It was off again on Monday.

On one side of me is Gorden Tallis, the Raging Bull who has an opinion or six and likes to share them, usually all at once. He could make a cauliflower ear bleed.

Tallis has the full house now. He finished playing for Brisbane and joined the North Queensland Cowboys board that appointed Henry some years back and now holds residence as a Gold Coast Titans ambassador.

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Gold Coast Titans player Jarryd Hayne arrives at Titans Headquarters at Parkwood on the Gold Coast.

Drilling into the other ear is Ben Ikin, a television host with a pedigree that includes time spent as a North Queensland director when the Cowboys sacked the coach at the time, the same Neil Henry.

And so the conversation is at full throttle. If there is one certainty it is that opinion is strong and diverse on the value of Hayne as a player and the ability of Henry to coach him.

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And right at this very same time Henry is on the Gold Coast in a meeting with chief executive Graham Annesley and chairwoman Rebecca Frizelle and the other fly in the liniment, Hayne.

They can’t get on, it seems, and it now appears a matter of when, not if, the axe falls on Henry.

Henry is a Bolshevik coach. All men are created equal and all should contribute, no matter their gifts.

Hayne is Hollywood A-list. He performs sometimes when it is needed and often when it suits.

So philosophies have clashed between the coach and star player as the Titans’ season faltered through more losses than wins until it reached the point when Hayne offered to walk after the Titans lost on Saturday.

Henry, perhaps in a pre-emptive move of his own, reportedly gave the club a him-or-me ultimatum.

The Titans have made their choice, only the formalities remain.

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Jarryd Hayne and Neil Henry. Picture: Getty Images

Henry and Hayne are both wrong.

Henry needs to understand his shortcomings are not weaknesses and not necessarily criticisms. No coach is perfect yet he reacts to criticism as if it is a personal affront.

He does not believe he has a problem coaching players of rare talent even though his history suggests otherwise, and he will take on anyone who suggests it.

He did a tremendous job turning the Cowboys into contenders with Johnathan Thurston, Matt Scott and Matt Bowen but it took Paul Green to deliver a premiership.

He is not the first coach to suffer this problem. The game is littered with coaches who fell in love with the game plan and seemed conflicted when it still required a little individual brilliance to deliver the result.

Henry gets in his own way as a coach. He has been told numerous times by numerous people and each time he fights it as a personal insult.

But until he learns that big players are necessary to deliver the big results he will continue to coach ­almost well enough.

Jarryd Hayne arrives at Titans Headquarters at Parkwood on the Gold Coast.

Monday got worse as the afternoon wore on.

Midway through it, Titans board members Darryl Kelly and Trish Hogan were called to a snap meeting at Titans headquarters as the stand-off seemed to escalate.

If this game teaches anything, it is that there is never one absolute version. Over the weekend came an ­alternative version of Hayne’s disinterest. Hayne has been under criticism since his poor training habits were reported before round one.

There was nothing new in it if you followed his history at Parramatta, where he chewed up a lot of salary cap money and failed to provide value for money.

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It kicked up again when former Brisbane star Justin Hodges chipped Hayne for his efforts midway through the season.

The word that emerged was that Hayne went back to the Titans and put his head down at training and pushed himself harder, the competitor coming out. He wanted to prove the knockers wrong.

Quickly, though, training staff grew alarmed.

They watched Hayne begin pulling up and recognised it was nothing to do with effort but with his body’s inability to cope with the workload.

It raises a new reality for the Titans and their multimillion-dollar asset. What if he is trying to give, and can’t?

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