Under-fire Broncos unload to Bennett
SEVERAL Broncos players and staff have spoken to former coach Wayne Bennett about the pressures tearing down the club he made great.
For more than 40 years Bennett, now coaching South Sydney, has lent an empathetic ear to past players and staff members who confide to him about their challenges.
This season it is understood some of the calls have come from people in or around the current squad exasperated about the plight of a club that has lost six games in a row.
The Broncos face “Flashpoint Fortnight” with games against the Bulldogs and Wests-tigers.
Bennett left the club at the end of the 2018 season and while he was a polarising figure, his decades of service there left him with many lifelong friendships and he remains well informed about the inner workings of the club.
His anger with the current Broncos regime was laid bare in a witheringly candid interview with News Corp last week when he took aim at Broncos coach Anthony Seibold and chairman Karl Morris who questioned the state Bennett left the club in, saying Seibold would take “two years to sort out the issues he inherited”.
“I did not coach or have a run down football team at the Broncos,” Bennett said.
“Seibold has 12 players with Origin or Test experience. We are being lost in the smoke and mirrors. There is a lot of talent there under Seibold but noone is playing to their talent.”
Seibold faces a critical selection call on veteran Darius Boyd and his under-fire halves as Kotoni Staggs leads a horde of returning Broncos in the next fortnight.