The Wolf You Feed

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Macmillan Australia
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 434 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: the greatest coach in Australian sports history . . . an extraordinary man Matthew JohnsWayne Bennett is the greatest rugby league coach Australia has ever had. He has won seven premierships and is the greatest man manager the game has known.He is a living a self-professed introvert who can hold an audience in the palm of his hand; an autocrat on a humanitarian mission to make good men of his young charges; a devoted husband (and father of the year) who left his wife after 42 years of marriage. Other coaches decry his tactics then attempt to imitate them. Players are desperate to work with him but are left feeling deceived when he cuts them loose. The media disparages him then lavishes him with praise.So who is the real Wayne BennettCelebrated sports journalist Andrew Webster has been on a mission to find out. For two years, he has interviewed family, close friends, sworn enemies, colleagues, coaches and players, as well as Bennett himself, and trawled through acres of print and recordings.Webster shows us a complex, brilliant and difficult man. We come to admire the good wolf of Bennetts nature - the genius who transforms young unformed players into titans of the game. And the bad wolf - the wrangler who plays the dark arts of football politics with obsessive determination.Expertly written and compulsively readable, Websters account of Bennett is not unlike the man controversial, combative, and impossible to ignore.

ISBN: 9781761268601