Wayne bennett biography book
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Wayne bennett biography book
His other book Man In The Mirror is more of a diary based "and then" style with chronological consistency but probably a similar amount of insight in double the length.
The biggest thing I got from this was that the NRL is decades behind American sports in terms of professionalism.
This applies to management, coaches and players. The game is still in its professional infancy and as such the depth of thought applied to the game is limited but it also explains to a degree the continual scandals from players who are part of a reasonably new system in a highly public age that has yet to grow into its professionalism.
Despite its infancy there are still a few legends of the NRL and there is a smattering of them in this book but most of the great quotes are from American football coaches and players. Bennett much like his idol Jack Gibson seems to have