Souths question Bennett’s motive over Mitchell
The Rabbitohs have hit back at the club’s former coach and Dolphins mentor Wayne Bennett over comments about superstar fullback Latrell Mitchell.
The Rabbitohs have hit back at the club’s former coach and Dolphins mentor Wayne Bennett over comments about superstar fullback Latrell Mitchell.
Wayne Bennett, the Red Hill icon infamously sacked by Brisbane, reveals the secret phone call he made as South Sydney coach that sealed Adam Reynolds’s move to the Broncos.
Dolphins coach Wayne Bennett has confirmed the NRL’s 17th club is interested in Latrell Mitchell and is ready to pounce with a mega offer.
The Roosters welcome back the big guns fro Friday’s epic clash in Melbourne while the Panthers have received a big boost just two weeks out from the finals.
The camping trip that has put the NRL’s comeback plans on the brink wasn’t Josh Addo-Carr’s first warning over social distancing restrictions. And the Melbourne Storm star’s problems could get even more serious.
Ignore the excuses and apologies, Josh Addo-Carr and Latrell Mitchell’s camping trip is just another example of players’ foolish behaviour handing power to the game’s critics and one that could damage the NRL’s fragile plans, writes PAUL KENT.
Josh Addo-Carr is under police investigation for alleged firearm use on his camping trip with Latrell Mitchell that violated COVID-19 protocols and have led NSW police to fine the pair and Tyronne Roberts-Davis $1000.
With rugby league fans almost certainly locked out of stadiums when the competition resumes, both South Sydney and Canterbury-Bankstown are keen to take play at home.
Inside the Allianz Stadium rebuild at Moore Park — and how it’s tracking for opening, plus the tug of war between two powerhouse governing bodies for Peter V’landys’ services.
So much for coaching solidarity. Two of Wayne Bennett’s favourite sons unwittingly revealed South Sydney were planning on getting the jump on rivals. PLUS the RLPA’ surprise at return date.
With the Warriors and interstate teams likely to restart the season in their own individual ‘bubbles’, players from Sydney clubs could be allowed stay at home – a move that has coaches on edge.
Peter V’landys has laid down the law ahead of Project Apollo’s launch, with NRL players and clubs facing brutal penalties for breaching new coronavirus protocols. SEE THE PUNISHMENTS HERE
South Sydney owner Russell Crowe says it’s time ‘to put a rugby league man’ in charge of the game – which sounds ideal – but Rusty’s pick has plenty of enemies in the game already.
A drunken Greg Inglis spent the NRL’s Magic Round weekend in a Brisbane riverside mansion with friends and controversial former nude model and reality TV star Suzi Taylor.
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