Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cShaun Mielekamp and Pat Richards, who is the head of footy, will go through the applications, come up with a shortlist,\u201d Read said on NRL 360.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Benji will become involved in the process, and ultimately it will become Benji\u2019s decision as to who the assistant is.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, that process was questioned, with concerns raised over whether Marshall, who is currently under pressure, should have the final say on his next assistant.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t want yes-men, particularly at that club,\u201d Read\u2019s News Corp colleague Dean Ritchie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think Benji should be involved. I think the club should make a decision and tell Benji this is your assistant coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think a coach under pressure should have full reign. If you give him a full say, he brings in one of his mates and you\u2019ve got problems again. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere has to be a layer there, a filter there.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Read immediately hit back at the suggestion, labelling it absolutely \u201cridiculous\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cThat is the most ridiculous thing I\u2019ve heard in my life.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat coach in the game doesn\u2019t have a say in his assistant coach?\u201d<\/p>\n
Braith Anasta also backed the Tigers coach in having a say in the appointment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI genuinely think a coach should have a say in this,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
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Gorden Tallis agreed, \u201cHe\u2019s got to work with him every day, and he\u2019s got to trust him. The head coach has got to trust his assistant.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Marshall was originally given free rein in choosing the members of his coaching staff, it was suggested the latest process was designed to ease some of the pressure on the Tigers head coach after another poor season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI imagine it\u2019s a process they\u2019re going through and they want to relieve some of the tasks (that are on his plate),\u201d Read continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re trying to take some of the pressure off him. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s some big decision that needs to be made this off-season and they\u2019re just trying to ease the load on him. Ultimately, he will have a say.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fiery debate has erupted over Benji Marshall\u2019s role in selecting his next assistant coach following the departure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-891703","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\/891703","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=891703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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