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Message: [QUOTE="Foordy, post: 3672022, member: 1769"] Comments from Ben Te'o ahead of his return next year: “It’s Kevvie’s team. I will always be honest but he sets the tone and I will assist him,” Te’o said. “You have to let the main man run the show. I don’t think the boys will respect me if I come in and start carrying on. “Kristian talked to me about joining his staff, but when I spoke to Kevvie it was the job description I wanted. “Kevvie is a pretty good salesman and pretty good at tugging on the emotion of it. “I’m a Bronco. It’s the team I wanted to play for and team I came back to (from rugby). It’s a special place to me. “I had to go somewhere else to do my coaching apprenticeship, but Kevvie said come home and give him a hand.” [B]Te’o said he jumped at the opportunity to learn from Bennett.[/B] “The opportunity to coach under Wayne for three years was too good an opportunity to turn down,” he said. “I feel like I’ve been with some of the best coaches ever. “I’ve played under Tim Sheens and Michael Maguire, been under Wayne. In rugby I had Eddie Jones and Warren Gatland. “I’ve been under the top ones and wanted to understand what Wayne was about. “Everything is calculated with him. He is like a performer, he knows when to get them up, when to keep them down, when to smack them and the right things to say. “He always says if he can’t understand it then the players can’t. You can have complex coaching theories, but unless everyone can understand it then it’s pointless.” [B]A Hostplus Cup premiership with Redcliffe would be a fitting farewell before he heads to the Broncos and Te’o said he was enjoying his coaching journey as he prepares to mentor NRL stars Payne Haas and Pat Carrigan.[/B] “It’s been good,” he said. “I retired three years ago and went straight into coaching with Wayne so I’ve had three years of mentoring with him. “I’ve had my own team but also been in an NRL system so the learning has been accelerated. “It feels like I’m going home to the Broncos but I think I had to go away.” [/QUOTE]

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