'Cruel': Souths claim Broncos 'discredited' Wayne

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South Sydney CEO Blake Solly has revealed immoderate of the "extremely personal" attacks departing manager Wayne Bennett endured from members astatine the Broncos anterior to joining the Rabbitohs.

While the Rabbitohs fell abbreviated by 2 points against the Panthers during past weekend's expansive final, overmuch of the build-up centred connected the legendary coach, who was controversially fto spell by the Broncos astatine the extremity of the 2018 play earlier joining South Sydney.

In the lead-up to the expansive final, Bennett didn't specify what was done, but claimed the Broncos attempted to "undermine" his determination from Red Hill to Redfern.

"I volition accidental publicly, they (Brisbane) undermined maine successful their conversations with Souths. They didn't bash a small occupation connected me, they did the champion occupation they perchance could," Bennett said aft South Sydney's preliminary last win.

Speaking to Nine and The Sydney Morning Herald's Danny Weidler, Solly claimed immoderate members astatine the Broncos informed South Sydney that the past 68-year-old Bennett required a furniture successful his bureau to slumber during the day.

It's understood the furniture was for Bennett's handicapped son, Justin, who astatine the clip was incapable to slumber astatine nighttime owed to the medicine helium was taking.

"Some of the attacks, peculiarly earlier Wayne joined us, were highly idiosyncratic and driven, I think, from individuals successful the crippled oregon astatine the Broncos astatine the clip to discredit Wayne," Solly told the Sydney Morning Herald.

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"One [rumour] successful peculiar astir the furniture successful the bureau was conscionable not right. He bought that furniture into the bureau for Justin erstwhile helium attends training.

"Wayne is bonzer with him (Justin) and to person thing that was done to marque Justin's beingness comfy turned connected him was beauteous cruel."

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