Bennett reveals inside story on Dolphins' song

1 year ago 73

Wayne Bennett is truthful chuffed astir the Dolphins' squad opus that helium butted successful connected skipper Jesse Bromwich to uncover its origins aft the breathtaking triumph implicit the Roosters connected Sunday afternoon.

Bromwich was asked astir the Dolphins' opus arsenic helium fielded questions with Bennett aft the nine defeated the Roosters 28-18, marking its inaugural NRL crippled successful singular fashion.

Bennett jumped astatine the accidental to speech astir the opus aft the team's archetypal post-win rendition of it successful the Suncorp Stadium sheds.

"It's an absorbing story. I don't privation to chopped into Jesse, but helium won't archer the full story," Bennett said.

"We went distant connected a pre-season campy for 3 oregon 4 days and I said to them, 'We haven't got a squad song' ... and a mates of hours aboriginal the elder players led by these guys — (Felise) Kaufusi, him (Jesse) and his member (Kenneath) — had a large song.

"We've sung it 10 oregon 12 times present astatine things we've done.

"It's a tremendous taxable song, it's a existent recognition to them, it's theirs and they ain it, we had 1 contiguous and we sung it. It was great."

More than 35,000 radical packed into Suncorp Stadium arsenic the Dolphins met the Roosters connected a history-making occasion.

Making for a good trivia question successful 10 years' time, Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow scored the archetypal NRL effort successful the club's history, looming up connected Jeremy Marshall-King's wrong and streaking distant successful the 16th minute.

Stream the NRL premiership 2023 unrecorded and escaped connected 9Now

Another terrific infinitesimal saw Kaufusi hammer Egan Butcher successful a tackle, earlier lasting implicit the Roosters second-rower and letting him cognize astir it.

The Dolphins secured their archetypal pb successful past erstwhile Connelly Lemuelu charged onto a Sean O'Sullivan abbreviated shot and barged implicit successful the 47th minute.

Dolphins fans astatine Suncorp Stadium erupted, conscionable arsenic they did erstwhile Jamayne Isaako doubly dotted down successful an astonishing connection by the caller kids connected the artifact conscionable earlier the hr mark.

'The Hammer' scores Dolphins' archetypal NRL try

Bennett was the manager of the Broncos erstwhile they won their inaugural crippled successful the apical league successful 1988, steering Brisbane to a 44-10 triumph implicit Manly astatine Lang Park.

"I deliberation the Broncos had 15,000 the time that we played our archetypal crippled each those years ago," Bennett said.

"So, 30,000-plus present contiguous and it was a large atmosphere.

"It was a large ambiance that day, arsenic well, but contiguous was beauteous special.

"To spot each the colours (was fantastic). We adjacent had the grandstand seats our colours: reddish and gold.

"So, it was a very, very, precise bully day."

For a regular dose of the champion of the breaking quality and exclusive contented from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!