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[B]Wayne Bennett has told Joe Ofahengaue, one of Brisbane’s best emerging talents, he won’t play NRL in 2015[/B]

[B]WHEN Wayne Bennett told Brisbane’s  best emerging talent Joe Ofahengaue he probably wouldn’t play NRL this  year, the teen’s response showed why he could prove the super coach  wrong.                                  [/B]                              
Bennett is known for prodding the best out of players by telling them what they need but perhaps do not want to hear.

Some would call it mind games, Bennett would probably call it coaching.
 
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                                                  Brisbane Bronco young guns Joe Ofahengaue and Joseph Forrester. Pic Jono Searle                                          
         
     
 
 His blunt message to Ofahengaue this pre-season could be the making of the 19-year-old nephew of ex-Wallabies cult hero Willie.
             
Bennett’s advice has not deterred the off-contract Ipswich standout as he told [I]The Courier-Mail [/I]he will commit to Brisbane regardless of rival offers.

Ofahengaue is a 113 kilogram prop who is one of the fittest players  at the club. He was expected to crack the NRL this season and even push  for a starting spot.

Then Bennett told him not to get his hopes up high because he believed 2016 would be his debut year.

“I took it personally. I took it like I want to prove him wrong and that I am ready to play this year,” Ofahengaue said.

“It was a challenge to me.

“I have all my trust in Wayne. I know where he wants me to go.

“I have to trust him and wait patiently until the time is right.

“He’s not about rushing me into it.

“It is ultimately up to him. He will write down the 17 that go on the field and if I am not in it then I am not in it.

“But this is my second year at it (being in the NRL squad) so I want this to be it (debut year).

“I had a go at it last year in full time pre-season but didn’t make it.”

Ofahengaue hoped to crack the NRL last year under Anthony Griffin but instead led the club’s under-20’s team to the grand final.

Ofahengaue ran for the most metres in that competition.

He is not the aggressive tackle shredding behemoth his uncle was.

He plays more like Corey Parker than Fuifui Moimoi.

His work rate and maturity is why rival NRL clubs are already lining up to snare him from Red Hill.

They should stop bothering.

“I don’t know what I am doing for the next couple years but it is not really on my mind,”
he said.

“I want to stay here. This is the place for me.

“I didn’t think Sydney was my lifestyle. It is too fast for me.”

Ofahengaue  played in the same St Peter Claver high school side as two of his  Broncos team mates, Anthony Milford and Brett Greinke.

“It is  pretty buzzing ey. To be training in top grade with two of my good mates  that I have known since school is real trippy and we just can’t wait to  see where it takes us,” he said.

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