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NRL 2020: Confused coach Wayne Bennett banned for COVID breach
AUGUST 6, 20201:26pm



NEWS.COM.AU0:49
NRL: Wayne Bennett banned after breaking strict COVID rules
South Sydney Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett has been stood down after inadvertently breaking NRL's strict COVID rules.

Jai Bednallnews.com.au
Wayne Bennett will miss this Friday’s grudge match against the Broncos after admitting to breaking the NRL’s COVID-19 rules.
The South Sydney coach confirmed The Daily Telegraph’s report he dined at an Italian restaurant in Leichhardt in Sydney’s inner-west on Wednesday with a woman believed to be his partner.
Bennett claimed he didn’t know he was breaching the NRL’s strict protocols, which ban players and coaches from visiting public places.

But News Corp understands the mastercoach will be ordered into self-isolation and miss the Rabbitohs clash with his old club.
Bennett follows in the footsteps of Bulldogs player Aiden Tolman and Knights star Bradman Best who both missed games for COVID-19 breaches.
He admitted his confusion at the league’s rules despite being on the committee that helped form them.

“I went for lunch yesterday at Grappa, I did. I didn’t think it was a breach … If I knew it was a breach I wouldn’t have done it. I went with my partner who I live with, had some lunch and that was it,” he told reporters after Rabbitohs training on Thursday.
“I go shopping, I go different places to get meals at times, it was just me and my partner who I live together with, she was with me and I went somewhere to get something to eat at lunchtime.”
Bennett, who also admitted there’d been “one or two other times” he’d been in public, was investigated by the NRL Integrity Unit.
“I go to the kebab shop to get a kebab and there’s just as many people there as there were in the restaurant,” he said. “There wasn’t many (diners) there at all, actually … I was isolated from everybody.”
Nine’s Danny Weidler said Bennett will “most likely” be forced to spend seven days on the sidelines. The Daily Telegraph was predicting a two-week ban.
Bennett was in the middle of a training session with the Rabbitohs when the news broke after the Daily Telegraph was tipped off by a patron at the restaurant. He said he would cop any punishment handed down.
“If that’s what happens, that’s their call. The rules have changed that many times about what we can do and can’t do,” he said.
“The protocols are changing all the time. At times I have been out when I thought it was right. I still thought it was right yesterday.”
Wayne Bennett with Adam Reynolds during a South Sydney Rabbitohs training session at Redfern ahead of their match against Brisbane this week. Picture. Phil Hillyard

Wayne Bennett with Adam Reynolds during a South Sydney Rabbitohs training session at Redfern ahead of their match against Brisbane this week. Picture. Phil HillyardSource:News Corp Australia
Bennett’s Rabbitohs are scheduled to play Brisbane, the club he used to coach, on Friday night at ANZ Stadium. His assistant Jason Demetriou will take the reins in his absence.
The 70-year-old mentor gave his tick of approval to the league’s COVID-19 rules when asked about it last month.
“We’ve got a lot of biosecurity rules around us and I’m happy with that,” Bennett said.
“If we don’t want that choice, we can just retire from football and go and do something else.”
Bennett yesterday added to the anticipation ahead of the Broncos’ clash by claiming his eventual move to the Rabbitohs wasn’t discussed until Brisbane had told him he was no longer required.
Bennett was replaced in Brisbane by Anthony Seibold, in what ended up being a straight swap.
“It’s absolute bulls*** that I was planning stuff with Souths while Seibold was there,” Bennett told the Courier Mail.
“It’s like many things in life, people only want to muddy the waters when the truth is not told. That is the case of my so-called planning with Souths when Seibold was there.”
 

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Btw, sorry for spelling error in title (I'm waiting for a colonoscopy and probably a bit distracted).

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All the best with your test.
 

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I don't know about Bradman Best, but I don't think Tolman breached covid rules. There was just a case of it at the school his children attend.

But in this case it actually makes me wonder why people expect players to adhere to the rules when a coach who is old enough to know better doesn't. How hard is it to order takeaway.
 

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Btw, sorry for spelling error in title (I'm waiting for a colonoscopy and probably a bit distracted).

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Hope everything is ok CD. If it helps ease your mind, the worst part of a colonoscopy is the effects of the laxitives prior to the procedure.
 

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Ponga also under investigation for breaking covid 19 rules alleged to have caught at Cafe as well and someone took a pic.
 

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Haha, fucking Tolman didn't breach anything. His children's school was shut down due to an outbreak there and as a precaution he isolated until his tests came back negative. Media making it seem like he went out a broke the rules, when there have been other players who have breached the rules. Just another dig by the media.
 

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Btw, sorry for spelling error in title (I'm waiting for a colonoscopy and probably a bit distracted).
Nothing to it, just a hose with a camera shoved up your arse. Hope you don't make the colon porn site. ;)
 

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Btw, sorry for spelling error in title (I'm waiting for a colonoscopy and probably a bit distracted).

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You can edit it yourself, click the 3 dots up the top of the thread next to watch and then click edit thread.
 

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I am old but even I know the current NRL rules.

Reporter needs to do a bit better research if he thinks Aiden Tolman broke COVID rules. His child was at a school where there was a positive case and he was stood down through association.

Even though there was a photo of Ponga out and about he has reportedly been cleared. Probably the photo was when he was having his thick shake..



Newcastle Knights superstar Kalyn Ponga has broken his silence over controversial comments he made in the fallout from coach Nathan Brown's departure from the club.

The day after Brown fronted Newcastle management and decided he had no future at the Knights, Ponga was asked whether he was sad when he heard the coach was leaving.

"I was at lunch having a nice strawberry thickshake, so I wasn't too sad," Ponga said at the time.

The flippant comment was not well-received and was followed on Saturday night by a 46-4 hiding from Wests Tigers, which effectively ended Newcastle's finals hopes.
 

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Sure Covid rules have a reason to be there but some of them are over the top and defy logic.
Has that restaurant been listed as a hot spot?
Oh well he broke the rules, and it goes on.
 

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All the best with your test.
Hope everything is ok CD. If it helps ease your mind, the worst part of a colonoscopy is the effects of the laxitives prior to the procedure.
Best of luck, mate....hope all is ok.
Nothing to it, just a hose with a camera shoved up your arse. Hope you don't make the colon porn site. ;)
Thanks for the well wishes. As Alan said, the worst thing is several hours of trying not to shit yourself.
 
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