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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3286329, member: 1899"] It really was a bitter fall-out and the crazy thing was how quickly it turned sour. Bennett actually got along well with everyone the biggest stumbling block was his age. The Broncos couldn't see him coaching in 5 years time and Bellamy happened to just be coming off-contract. Bennett understood, he just wanted to be kept in the loop so he wasn't going to be publically embarrassed. Remember this was when the media was waging war with Bennett. Bennett was a hot topic on a lot of their shows and they'd pick a part anything he did. They would even go back to his time at Newcastle when they didn't have any fresh material even when it was factually incorrect. Anyways he was told no worries and he'd be the first to no only for the Daily Telegraph to break the news only a day or so later. That created a fracture but it would have been water under the bridge had they just moved on from missing out on Bellamy. Instead they kept going, more things were being leaked to the media and Bennett was beginning to fight fire with fire. In the end the Broncos just wouldn't back down which is why they went hard for Seibold. Emotions are still raw and Bennett's preference is still to coach. If the Firehawks don't pan out, I would not be shocked to see him return to the Broncos in some development capacity. I don't think Ikin was brought into spite Bennett. I think it was as simple as Nolan needed to be moved on, they had Ikin's credentials on file and Donaghy would have heard his critiques and been interested to hear his solutions. Based on their discussions, Ikin got the role. It's always difficult to know how they'll go but Ikin has been spot on so far with his critiques of the club. A lot of fans understandably saw it as sour grapes but I genuinely thought he had a point and it's transpired exactly as he said it would. [/QUOTE]

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