As for Hornby staying on, Bennett added: “Completely, 100 per cent. We’re nice associates.
“We gained a premiership collectively [at St George Illawarra in 2010]. We’re on the identical web page about our ideas on the sport.
“He’s additionally robust sufficient to inform me once I’m out of order, and vice versa. I’ve an amazing relationship with him. He’s an excellent coach.
“He’s not my opposition [this year]. He’s obtained the simplest teaching job within the NRL proper now within the sense I’ll be there with him subsequent 12 months, he’s making an attempt to carry the membership collectively, [and] he’s doing a extremely good job, whereas ready for the brand new coach to come back in when the brand new season begins.”
Bennett mentioned there could be no points teaching the Dolphins for the rest of the 12 months earlier than shifting to a rival membership, insisting it might be “a simple transition”.
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The 74-year-old mentioned after the win over the Wests Tigers on Sunday evening he had no urge for food to raid the Dolphins’ roster. “I didn’t set round constructing this membership to attempt to destroy it,” Bennett mentioned.
Souths moved shortly on Bennett after parting methods with Demetriou late final month. Bennett took the membership to the preliminary finals in 2019 and 2020, earlier than reaching the grand last in 2021, which they misplaced to Penrith.
Souths chairman Nick Pappas mentioned in an announcement: “On behalf of the board of the Rabbitohs, we stay up for welcoming Wayne again to the membership, and to ending off what we obtained so near attaining in 2021.”
Bennett’s return to the cardinal and myrtle comes after a persistent, clandestine bid for his providers by Parramatta officers as they ready to maneuver on from Brad Arthur as early as Might 1.
The Rabbitohs made Bennett their overwhelming precedence as soon as his one-time successor Demetriou was sacked three weeks in the past, just for the Eels to do the identical behind closed doorways.
All through negotiations, which included a go to to Bennett’s farm in Warwick and a profitable supply to take cost at Parramatta, the 74-year-old coach maintained that his desire was to return to the Rabbitohs, a message that was conveyed to South Sydney CEO Blake Solly.
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