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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 3167390, member: 1847"] Yes, I know exactly what I am doing, and I will continue to do what I do, and, cop any fair criticism as a result. My point about Boyd is in large part to point to the problems implicit and explicit, in a relationship between player and coach, his boss as you rightly say, that extends way beyond what for mine, is reasonably expected of that relationship. The fact that Boyd didn't have a father has absolutely nothing to do with my criticism of him, or his relationship with Bennett. It's the relationship in question which grounds my arguments, a relationship so deep that it could, and I say it did, blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. A relationship, a professional relationship between player and coach where the coach says things like: [B]Bennett[/B]: "But then again what they can't understand and wouldn't understand and never understand is that nothing can break the bond that we have." "There were some forces at work with him, but he always kept me informed and my challenge was for not to implicate him in what was happening with me and I told him not to worry about me. Just get on and be the captain of the club for the whole of the club." And further quoting the article I cited above: The 69-year-old said Boyd approached him in tears, fearing for his NRL career. "I was in the gym at the time and he walked in and had tears in his eyes," he said. "I said, 'What's wrong mate?' and he said, 'They don't want me here, they told me that they're not going to re-sign me'. "I just looked at him and said, 'Well you're with me, wherever I go, I'll take you'." For mine, that is a very special relationship, effectively one where Bennett behaves as Boyd's de facto father, and one I do not begrudge themt, but one which is fraught with, as I said above, the possibilities that boundaries between the personal and professional are at risk, and with the consequences I believe resulted in Boyd's behaviours here after Bennett was sacked. [URL]https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/wayne-bennett-reveals-strain-on-darius-boyd-after-broncos-sacking/9de0f6f5-03a9-4109-8e1c-6ba56ef670cd[/URL] If I am wrong, on the facts as I see them, please criticise my post. I welcome it, for then, I too can learn from any mistakes I make. [/QUOTE]

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