Wayne Bennett Quotes (17 Quotes)

I understand the video referee said the ball wasn't stripped. I don't know how he worked that out.

The good news for us is that everyone's going to be back. We haven't got a long-term injury so if they come back next week or the week after, we've got no-one out for the rest of the season.

I was asked if I would have the courage to do it ... I said I would, but I didn't say I was moving him.

We had a chance to win today and we didn't, but we gave ourselves that chance. If we can play like for the next 20 weeks we're going to win a lot of games.

He'll be playing. He's a got a cork or a quad strain but either way he's going to be right to play. We just didn't want Michael out their too long today, but he'll be fine.

I'm not aware of any such incident of this magnitude in 37 years I've been on this job. This is unprecedented.

You're in tight games, it's tough on everybody and you've got the video referee there in a situation like that. They've got to stop the game anyway. It turns out a pretty crucial call.

He's a strike player, isn't he. He's a really good player and we'd like to have him out there most of the time if we can.

I'm sick of the drunks and I'm sick of our game being dragged through every media outlet in the country every time some guy behaves badly.

Shaun Berrigan finished up playing half-back - he's about our fifth-choice half-back in this club,

When you lose somebody, even if you never worked with them, it's a part of your heart and soul.

Criticism goes with the territory these days.

I don't think they use it as a tactic any more and I have confidence and belief in Craig. It's more a case of muscle memory taking over (if a player grapples a rival's head) and if that happens the ref will handle it.

We've made a lot of changes in our club and I've been really happy with those,

I looked at him and said 'I suppose what would be good for the game would be for Australia to lose a series', ... He Love nodded and said 'yes'. And I said 'yes, but I don't want to be the coach when that happens'.

It's convenient, ... If there is no statute, even if we see something, we don't have authority to do anything about it.

We've got players who come from there and the whole community has been touched by what happened.