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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3186827, member: 9326"] Look, I could be totally wrong here, but I thought a significant difference between Bennett in his initial stint at the Broncos and after his return in 2015 was around him no longer having sole control and responsibility for the football team? I'm happy to hear if I've got this wrong and it wasn't the case, but I thought that the 'handshake deal every year instead of a contract' and having sole responsibility for the football team more or less died with Bruno Cullen and was a big part of why Bennett ever entertained leaving to go to the Roosters in the first place. Now I'm not for a moment suggesting he didn't have a very significant influence over who the club recruited even when he returned in 2015, but we know for a fact the club has a recruitment and retention committee and that Bennett was just one member of that committee. I'm reading between the lines a little here now but I can also reasonably accept that within that committee (based on who else was there too) that his role as Coach is likely to tell the others what he wants from a personnel perspective and then it is up to the other members and particularly the guys in control of the finances (Paul White) to then go and make that happen and agree on terms with the relative player/player manager. As I said, I'm not absolving Bennett of the blame on Boyd and he undoubtedly had a significant role in the decision to offer him another deal which we can all agree in hindsight was a mistake, but I think when it comes to being frustrated at the terms and length of that deal then it's unlikely to be Bennett that had the greatest say over that aspect of Boyd's last contract. [/QUOTE]

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