Sign up now!!! <\/a><\/p>\nKevie on Haas: ‘If I was coaching…’ | 01:06<\/p>\n
Journalist Andrew Webster believes Haas\u2019 decision has more to do with Bennett than it does with Maguire and the Broncos.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it\u2019s nothing more sinister than Wayne Bennett getting his man. I reckon Wayne would have been working on it for months and months,\u201d Webster said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been told by people internally at Souths that he was never happier than when he got Payne Haas on the books.\u201d<\/p>\n
Webster then went onto reveal an interesting comment Maguire made to him a decade earlier. <\/p>\n
Maguire led Souths to a comp in 2014 but struggled to reach anywhere near the highs of that season and after missing the eight in 2016 and 2017, he was sacked by the club.<\/p>\n
Following the grand final success, Webster spoke to Maguire for a column. <\/p>\n
\u201cI will say this about Madge. When he won at Souths, he used these words with me in an interview, to climb the mountain again was to double down and go as hard as he did in terms of their training methods. He said some players weren\u2019t prepared to go that far again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite this reveal, Haas wanting to leave the star-studded Broncos after winning a competition is puzzling for most, especially given Haas is considered one of the hardest-working players in the NRL. <\/p>\n
For NRL360 host Braith Anasta, it\u2019s a strange one.<\/p>\n
Haas says Bennett behind Souths decision | 02:59<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people are saying it\u2019s got something to do with Madge,\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDisregard Wayne, Haas is at a premier club who have just won a comp with a coach who\u2019s only been there for one year and won a premiership in his first year<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got probably one of the best, if not the best, rosters alongside of him that could forge a dynasty over the next two to three years. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe could have demanded more money in Brisbane. I hear he\u2019s got a good lifestyle up in Brisbane. So although Wayne is a big pulling cart, there was a hell of a lot keeping him in Brisbane.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only people who know why are Payne and the players at their club,\u201d Webster added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several Broncos stars could potentially follow Payne Haas out the door as rumours swirl over whether the star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-505502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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