Wayne Bennett has reportedly signed a woody to manager the NRL's caller team, The Dolphins, for 3 years from 2023, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
The quality comes lone hours aft the ARLC announced The Dolphins arsenic the winning enlargement bid.
Bennett finished coaching the Rabbitohs with past week's expansive last loss, but appears to person landed a caller occupation immediately.
He was coy aft the expansive last erstwhile speaking astir his adjacent vocation move, saying helium had a fig of options connected the table.
The Dolphins, however, denied a woody is already successful concrete.
"I said earlier astir having lofty ambitions and wanting to beryllium the champion successful the land, and to beryllium the champion successful the onshore you privation to prosecute the champion radical successful the land," Dolphins president Bob Jones told media.
"I deliberation if Wayne's not the champion successful the land, he's close up there. We've reached retired to Wayne, and those discussions are progressing nicely.
"Hopefully successful the adjacent small portion we'll cognize what's happening. Talks are progressing (but) no, he's not signed yet."
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Bennett, 71, is 1 of the astir palmy coaches successful rugby league history, having won 7 first-grade premierships and coached the Broncos, Dragons, Knights, and Rabbitohs successful the NRL.
He is simply a Queenslander and volition enactment arsenic the look of The Dolphins, with the caller nine hoping his drafting powerfulness tin pull a fig of the game's champion players.
Bennett's archetypal task volition beryllium to hunt the marketplace and find elite talent.
A fig of Queenslanders - including Cameron Munster, Christian Welch, and Reed Mahoney - person already been linked to the caller club, which volition participate the contention successful 2023.
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