Injured Storm star hits back at Bennett criticism

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Injured Melbourne Storm prop Christian Welch has deed retired astatine Dolphins manager Wayne Bennett for his criticisms of the mode Cameron Munster handled his declaration negotiations.

Despite having much than a twelvemonth near connected his contract, Munster was wide known to beryllium successful heavy talks arsenic a imaginable marquee signing with the Dolphins good earlier November 1, erstwhile NRL rules licence specified discussions to instrumentality place.

Munster announced helium had signed a four-year hold with the Storm successful aboriginal October.

Bennett slammed Munster's determination to not telephone him to fto him know helium was staying with the Storm.

"That's a pugnacious telephone call, it's a telephone telephone nary of america want to make. But if you privation to beryllium a man, past you've got to behave similar one," helium said connected Triple M's Rush Hour with Leisel Jones, Liam and Dobbo.

"It's pugnacious telling idiosyncratic you're not going to travel ... that's the terms you've got to wage truthful you tin turn into being the antheral you tin beryllium arrogant of," Bennett added.

In effect to a Tweet that said calling Bennett would person been the "respectable" and "admirable" happening to do, Welch said the legendary manager showed small of either to the Storm oregon the game.

"If we're talking astir admirable and respect, the attack pre-November 1 didn't amusement overmuch of either," helium said.

"It's a 2 mode thoroughfare … I'd accidental not a batch shown to Storm oregon NRL contracting rules to start."

Munster knocked backmost what reportedly would person been the richest per play woody ever signed by an NRL player, with News Corp claiming the last connection from the Dolphins was $1.4 million-a-season implicit 4 years.

While the Dolphins had spent months attempting to woo the Queensland Origin leader backmost to his location authorities connected the whopping $5.6 cardinal deal, their inaugural caput manager said that he'd feared the worst for immoderate time.

"It was conscionable specified a drawn-out, procrastinated situation," Bennett told Triple M's Rush Hour with Leisel Jones, Liam and Dobbo.

"I ne'er had immoderate assurance successful the end. At the opening I did, but astatine the extremity I didn't person immoderate assurance that he'd beryllium coming.

"I don't consciousness disappointed, I'd prepared myself for it. I conscionable knew."

Bennett said the full process involving connection betwixt himself and Munster's manager was "ordinary" and that helium wished much players would pass themselves erstwhile they've made a decision.

"I recognize astir managers and each that - determination is simply a request for them - but what I can't get, and what I don't subordinate to and I conflict with is the information that the players, for each the pugnacious conversations that person got to beryllium had, are missing," helium said.

"They don't ringing you up and archer you they're not coming. They don't marque that telephone call."

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