What disgusted Bennett about Munster talks

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Wayne Bennett has conceded helium had fixed up anticipation of signing Cameron Munster good earlier it was announced that helium had re-signed with the Melbourne Storm. 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.

The seasoned manager said the connection had dropped off, adding that helium was disappointed that neither Munster nor his manager Braith Anasta picked up the telephone to beryllium up beforehand with him astir their decision.

"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.

"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."

Bennett said helium wasn't surprised, nor was helium expecting a telephone telephone from Munster up of the announcement.

"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.

There's plentifulness of speculation arsenic to whom the Dolphins volition pursuit next; some Munster and Kalyn Ponga are disconnected the table, arsenic is Ben Hunt, who re-signed with the Dragons connected Wednesday.

Bennett said determination won't beryllium immoderate panic buying.

"It's left america with a batch of wealth successful the wage headdress to spell retired and bargain a prime player. And we volition not walk that wealth until we get that player," Bennett said.

"I'll play with 1 little adjacent twelvemonth to marque definite we get the close subordinate for '24. I'm not going to spell retired and walk that wealth present connected idiosyncratic we don't deliberation tin present what we need."

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