Official Craig Fitzgibbon

XGinga said:
You don't think Bennett will be coaching the PNG team in 2028? Timing is perfect for it.
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He will be 78 in 2028. While I’m not sure whether he will retire or not I don’t know he’d be in on PNG compound living as well as the travel. At the Dolphins he sent his assistant to be head coach for a couple long-distance games – Northern Territory and New Zealand I think.
 
XGinga said:
You don't think Bennett will be coaching the PNG team in 2028? Timing is perfect for it.
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Yeah fair point, keep forgetting they're putting a team in PNG. Timing does work for sure but he'll be close to 80 wont he, will he still want to keep coaching ?

Might be good him taking a Gus Gould type role to set things up for long term success, something that doesn't require full time work, or even living in PNG full time if he doesn't want too. Bring in a younger coach there for the long term, I can definitely see people using the PNG team as a gateway to another club and just trying to get expereince in the NRL - both playing and coaching.

Bennett would probably help recruitment wise because they're going to need all the help they can get. Going to be very interesting how they recruit players, look at what the Dolphins did, hardly got any big names and mostly older players looking for one last pay day or up and coming juniors. Might need to follow a similar model but the issue might be those juniors once they have 50 games might not want to stick around.
 
Tiger Shark said:
Yeah fair point, keep forgetting they're putting a team in PNG. Timing does work for sure but he'll be close to 80 wont he, will he still want to keep coaching ?

Might be good him taking a Gus Gould type role to set things up for long term success, something that doesn't require full time work, or even living in PNG full time if he doesn't want too. Bring in a younger coach there for the long term, I can definitely see people using the PNG team as a gateway to another club and just trying to get expereince in the NRL - both playing and coaching.

Bennett would probably help recruitment wise because they're going to need all the help they can get. Going to be very interesting how they recruit players, look at what the Dolphins did, hardly got any big names and mostly older players looking for one last pay day or up and coming juniors. Might need to follow a similar model but the issue might be those juniors once they have 50 games might not want to stick around.
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Big difference between recruiting at PNG over Dolphins is that is it tax free. So players are effectively doubling their salary (and therefore salary cap).

Not a bad few years sacrifice, living in a compound to come out and multi millionaire.
 
apezza said:
Big difference between recruiting at PNG over Dolphins is that is it tax free. So players are effectively doubling their salary (and therefore salary cap).

Not a bad few years sacrifice, living in a compound to come out and multi millionaire.
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Will that be for the entirety of their existence or just to get things going?
 
Tiger Shark said:
Yeah fair point, keep forgetting they're putting a team in PNG. Timing does work for sure but he'll be close to 80 wont he, will he still want to keep coaching ?

Might be good him taking a Gus Gould type role to set things up for long term success, something that doesn't require full time work, or even living in PNG full time if he doesn't want too. Bring in a younger coach there for the long term, I can definitely see people using the PNG team as a gateway to another club and just trying to get expereince in the NRL - both playing and coaching.

Bennett would probably help recruitment wise because they're going to need all the help they can get. Going to be very interesting how they recruit players, look at what the Dolphins did, hardly got any big names and mostly older players looking for one last pay day or up and coming juniors. Might need to follow a similar model but the issue might be those juniors once they have 50 games might not want to stick around.
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I feel a guy like Bennett will work until the day he dies.
 
Gumby said:
I feel a guy like Bennett will work until the day he dies.
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Eventually we will find out in post game coverage he actually died 5 mins into the second half and the assistant took over

Camera will have panned to him multiple times during the half and commentators say he has his usual expression
 
The most impressive thing about him is his ability to coach a first grade rugby league team alongside producing and directing Hollywood movies
 
Capital_Shark said:
He will be 78 in 2028. While I’m not sure whether he will retire or not I don’t know he’d be in on PNG compound living as well as the travel. At the Dolphins he sent his assistant to be head coach for a couple long-distance games – Northern Territory and New Zealand I think.
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He's just bought in a AC that is good at playing good cop/bad cop. A bloke that has worked for Ricky at the Raiders. Dean pay at the dogs, was at souths a few years ago and most recently at Parramatta now back at souths. A thirty year younger version of himself to do some hard yards.
 
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