The Star: April 12, 2018
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Bennett drama will spark Broncos – Kearney<br />
STEPHEN KEARNEY and his<br />
former mentor Wayne Bennett<br />
are seeing how the other half live<br />
in <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
In contrast to previous<br />
seasons, Kearney has been<br />
inundated with praise following<br />
the Warriors unbeaten start<br />
to the year, while Bennett has<br />
been in the headlines for all the<br />
wrong reasons after Brisbane’s<br />
2-3 start to the season and his<br />
verbal battle with Knights coach<br />
Nathan Brown.<br />
Even though the Broncos are<br />
10 rungs below the Warriors on<br />
the ladder, Kearney told NRL.<br />
com the Warriors are preparing<br />
for a bounce-back from Brisbane<br />
in Auckland on Saturday night.<br />
Kearney believes the Broncos<br />
will not only respond from<br />
their 15-10 loss to Newcastle<br />
with an improved performance<br />
but possibly their best of the<br />
year, citing Bennett as the main<br />
reason.<br />
“What I do know is Wayne will<br />
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have them prepared,” he said.<br />
“I thought they performed<br />
pretty well last week against the<br />
Knights without a great deal<br />
of luck. From an attitude point<br />
of view, I know he will have<br />
them coming here with real<br />
commitment and determination<br />
so we are expecting their best<br />
game of footy and we will<br />
prepare as such.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y’re a football club that’s<br />
always going to turn up ready<br />
to play and expect nothing less<br />
from them this week.”<br />
Five-eighth Blake Green<br />
is adamant the Warriors will<br />
have to be “even better than<br />
last week” if they are to extend<br />
their winning streak to six<br />
– something the club hasn’t<br />
achieved since 2002, a year in<br />
which the Daniel Andersoncoached<br />
side made the grandfinal.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are lots of areas we<br />
still want to improve on, we<br />
are certainly not the finished<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
product we would like to be at<br />
the moment, so we will continue<br />
to work hard,” Green said.<br />
While Green and Shaun<br />
Johnson have been earning rave<br />
reviews for their efforts in the<br />
opening five rounds, the same<br />
can’t be said about the Brisbane<br />
halves.<br />
Anthony Milford and Kodi<br />
Nikorima have not found their<br />
groove this season, but Green felt<br />
it was a matter of when, not if,<br />
that combination starts to fire.<br />
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