Penrith loss sparks Souths huge final run

Wayne Bennett won’t uncover what he thinks contains sparked South Sydney’s brilliant 14-1 NRL run as they definitely were flogged by Penrith in May.

“I’m not ready to talk about in which it yet; maybe (next week) but probably not, ” Bennett said smirking after their own side’s preliminary final take control of of Manly.

“That was a long time obsolete… you should see what some of us have done since then. ”

The obvious assumption could be that the master coach, entering a 10th grand final and following an eighth NRL implies with a third different pub on Sunday, is protecting his cards close to his or her chest.

However , 36-year-old playmaker Benji Marshall, who’s made the most connected Bennett’s career lifeline increasingly being a key piece off the section this season, isn’t so naturally that’s the case.

“I don’t think Wayne can guess; that’s the beauty about, alone Marshall said with a laugh.

“He pretends he knows, but he could be got no idea. ”

The 56-12 cylindrical 11 hiding in Dubbo followed a 50-0 burning to Melbourne a week earlier, signalling alarm bells at Redfern after calendar months previous trips to the initial final had ended in wipe out.

Their simply loss since the Panthers working was to the same team doing round 23, but they changed direction that result in week one finals to set up an appealing decider.

Little team has ever achieved an NRL title even after conceding 50 points in your game that season although with that form surge passenger of mind the Rabbitohs can ruin that indicator in Sunday’s rematch found at Suncorp Stadium.

“We can’t win, we now have lost by 50 matters twice, ” Marshall warned reporters when asked what exactly gives him hope.

“But you’ve got to maintain that belief in your factor and the way we’ve played out, especially defensively, in the last 7 weeks we were up in the main two teams there defensively.

“So allowing you confidence, but if you research our side we have gentlemen like Cody Walker, (Blake) Taaffe, (Adam) Reynolds individual who do the damage.

“But there’s also unsung heroes like (Tevita) Tatola, Level Nicholls, (Damien) Cook because from the middle.

“They don’t get a lot of wraps, whenever you’ve got a 17-man squad who are do whatever it takes, that’s definitely powerful. ”

An NRL title champion with Wests Tigers as part of 2005, Marshall credited Bennett for “saving his employment two times” – while recruiting him to Brisbane in 2017 and then Souths for this year.

A return to the grand quite will be 16 years involved in the making for Marshall with in a month of many feel-good tales to stay told in the week perseverance.

But Marshall, who vigorously hugged Bennett in the sheds after the make an impression on the Sea Eagles, hesitated to confirm it will be his final NRL game despite the coach almost doing it for him on Friday night.

Penrith loss sparks Souths huge final run
Penrith loss sparks Souths huge final run