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Adrian Proszenko Chief Rugby League Reporter October 10, 2025 — 7.11pm

Two months before Michael Maguire guided South Sydney to a drought-breaking premiership in 2014, Wayne Bennett labelled the Rabbitohs predictable.

“There’s not a coach in the NRL that doesn’t know how they’re going to play,” Bennett observed.

But no one, not even Bennett, could have predicted how quickly things would go awry after Rabbitohs won the grand final that year. Before they were to kick off their premiership defence, chief executive Shane Richardson had moved on. So too chief financial officer Joe Kelly, who was mooted to replace Richardson, as well as chief commercial officer John Richardson. Peter Holmes a Court, who had a rocky relationship with co-owner Russell Crowe,

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