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Message: [QUOTE="abashii, post: 3292908, member: 8686"] Much like broncsgoat I'm not huge on replying to you pete, because getting taken to task by someone with a better memory than me isn't great fun. But in this case I'd say those three words are doing a hell of a lot of heavy lifting. Although Benny has to take his share of the blame for Newcastle, the entire club burned to the ground around him because of Tinkler's actions. I have read that Tinkler wanted to have a premiership asap at any cost as well as demanded several local players be signed even at overs, however I don't know of any direct evidence of this. It is pretty safe to say though that in his final year there the club stopped paying players on time (the team once had to refuse to get off the bus and go into a match to get paid what they were owed), stopped getting TPAs paid because local businesses had been burned by Tinkler not paying his bills and weren't keen on still giving their hard-earned to his football team, Tinkler was sending abusive text messages to players, some staff weren't getting paid on time to the point that Bennett himself was loaning money to guys so they could pay their bills, and if I recall correctly the new ownership group basically claimed all staff contracts were null and void and made people reapply for their jobs at lower salaries. Then Rick "great game" Stone came in and won 4 from 5 or something to start the season before the wheels absolutely fell off, so the team left behind for the start of 2015 can't have been too bad. I'm not sure what sent them into their death spiral that year but at some point the club did what we did, paid old experienced guys to play elsewhere and bet hard on untested youth. All of this came out in the media at various points but to my possibly biased eyes the Johns boys and Sydney media (who were always looking for any opportunity to put the boot into Wayne) ran so quickly and so hard with the line that it was all his fault everything else has been kind of sidelined or whitewashed. Ask anyone, especially a Newcastle fan, what went wrong and who was to blame and you'll pretty likely get told it was all on Bennett, when there were so many factors at play. [/QUOTE]

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