Master Wayen Bennett and apprentice Kevin Walters are back together again. Source: News Limited
IT HAS taken almost nine years but master coach Wayne Bennett has re-hired the Brisbane Broncos legend he once sacked.
Bennett and Kevin Walters will reunite as a coaching team this season with the play-making great to be Newcastle Knights' halves coach.
"Well he's unemployed and I figured I didn't want him running amok on the streets so I better offer him a job," Bennett said.
Walters' debut coaching session at the Knights this Thursday will mark the first time the two have teamed up at club level since 2005, when Bennett dropped one of the biggest bombshells in Broncos' history.
On the morning of the club's annual ball, the Broncos fired men thought to be unsackable in assistant coaches Walters, Glenn Lazarus and Gary Belcher.
It prompted Walters to claim, "It was either Wayne or us, and clearly it was us".
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The next season the Broncos won the premiership, a feat they have not repeated since.
Bennett yesterday said he never thought Walters was a poor coach even when he reccomended he be let go.
In fact, that same month Bennett told the Queensland Rugby League that Walters should be part of the Maroons' State of Origin coaching staff.
"Kev just needed to get away from me," Bennett told The Courier-Mail.
"He needed to work under other coaches and gain experience at other clubs.
"He's done all that now.
"Kevin is a winner. He was wonderful at the Broncos.
"He brings a lot of enthusiasm. He will be great for the whole group here and not just the halves.
"His work ethic and experience will be great for us."
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Bennett and Walters, who have been linked to the Broncos as a coaching package in 2015,
have worked together in recent years through the Queensland Academy of Sport's Emerging Origin camp.
However, this is their first partnership at an NRL level since 2005.
The experience Walters gained since he departed Red Hill has been immense.
He coached the Ipswich Jets to a Queensland Cup grand final, was head coach of the Catalans Dragons in France before becoming the Melbourne Storm assistant coach.
Walters left the Storm late last season to return to his home in Brisbane and was close to securing the North Queensland Cowboys head coach role that eventually went to Paul Green.
Walters, who played 241 first-grade games for the Broncos and won five premierships under Bennett, will spend two days a week in Newcastle.
"He will fly down during the week for just a couple days where possible but won't be there for game day or anything because he has doing quite a bit of media this year," Bennett said.
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