Dolphins defend Bennett act amid Tallis spray

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By Simon Brunsdon and Damien McCartney

Gorden Tallis has reignited a long-running feud with supercoach Wayne Bennett by questioning wherefore the second has not attended Dolphins pre-season games.

Bennett is the inaugural manager of the NRL's 17th team, but has been absent the past 2 weeks for trials involving the Redcliffe-based side.

Tallis was connected the Sunshine Coast covering the Titans and Broncos crippled which instantly followed the Dolphins' clash against the Cowboys, and said the coach's lack from the Dolphins' archetypal hit-out against a fully-fledged NRL broadside was "the biggest speech connected the sidelines".

"It's strange… wherefore isn't the manager successful (the club's) archetypal twelvemonth going?" helium said connected the Footy Talk League podcast.

"I was successful Gladstone with him past play - I was rather impressed with what the Dolphins are doing.

"Wayne was up there. He had a truly young squad, each the young kids and [he] didn't adjacent spell to that crippled either.

"Two weeks successful a enactment (he didn''t go)."

Tallis was shocked Bennett opted retired of attending the trials in-person, peculiarly fixed the younker and inexperience successful his squad.

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Tallis played each of his 160 games for the Broncos nether Bennett.

The supercoach has been handing power of the proceedings games implicit to his assistants Nathan Fien and Kristian Woolf.

"I don't attraction who you are. Let's interruption it down to schoolhouse erstwhile your teacher is not determination and you get a alleviation teacher, bash you enactment arsenic hard?" Tallis continued.

"Maybe there's a spot of a ploy and erstwhile his existent squad runs out, oregon erstwhile the apical boys tally retired (that's erstwhile helium volition beryllium there).

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"He's been astir for a long, agelong clip truthful helium knows what he's doing."

The Dolphins were contacted by Wide World of Sports and defended their inaugural manager for his determination to miss pre-season games.

"There is thing caller astir Wayne not being successful the coaches' boxes for the aboriginal trials, helium has ever made it portion of the improvement way for adjunct coaches that they instrumentality power of the squad during the archetypal 2 proceedings matches," nine CEO Terry Reader said.

"Wayne has been doing this for decades but I besides deliberation immoderate radical mightiness person forgotten that 12 of our elder players that did not play past (Sunday) nighttime were connected the tract with Wayne for grooming astatine 7am this (Monday) greeting backmost astatine Redcliffe.

"People mightiness not cognize that Wayne went to Gladstone past week with the squad and attended aggregate assemblage and firm activities with and for the Dolphins and CQ Capras fixed our committedness to the concern and region.

"Wayne besides went to the stadium aboriginal to ticker the Dolphins nether 16, nether 18s, and nether 19s womens teams play earlier the Dolphins NRL crippled which helium watched from the grandstand."

Reader insists Bennett volition beryllium successful idiosyncratic to be Sunday's 2nd pre-season situation crippled against the Titans.

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