You can keep King Charles, Wayne Bennett’s crown is sitting pretty as ever after his Dolphins conjured a stunning 36-16 demolition of premiership front-runners Cronulla to mark his 900th first grade match.
As the royal family marked the latest juncture in their history, rugby league’s most enduring figurehead masterminded one of the year’s more astounding carve-ups, the Dolphins rattling up 30 first-half points in as many minutes before keeping the Sharks at bay.
As he always has with his prodigies and rising stars, Bennett offered little to pump up Te Whare tyres, aside from this nugget.“I think [what] we’re going to find with Val is he’s a big-match player,” Bennett said.“The bigger the occasion, the better he’ll play. There’s just some players that have that and it’s part of his DNA.”
“We had three quality forwards out tonight and a couple of good backs missing,” Bennett said, having shifted Kodi Nikorima to centre when Euan Aitken was sidelined with a hamstring injury. Bennett may have even cracked that Clint Eastwood smirk when it was Anthony Milford, one of the most maligned players he’s coached, who put a briefly threatened Cronulla comeback on ice.
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