Mate, that’s a fabulous point, and any of the guys that I work with who are listening will know that that’s the drum that I beat pretty loudly, that scheduling family time, and making it part of your routine. You had that first knee injury when, it started going about wonky, about 24 you’re saying. It’s a cracking read. How’s the handicap going? I went and joined the local footy club, the Seahawks and never looked back. I think all the great leaders, be they players or CEOs, or coaches, or chairman of the board, that they care. Look, I’m absolutely certain that I’m in the tiniest of minorities, when I look at my work schedule. Until last week anyway when, like so many others, The White Knight was brought crashing to earth by the coronavirus pandemic. What do I need to do to get there? I don’t think it can be spotted in an instant. I’m sure anyone listening to the show today is going to be writing that down, trust, alignment and certainty, because that is just absolute wisdom, that cuts through everything. You mentioned that the know how is not necessarily transferable into business because some of those skills, but some wont’ be, those habits that you developed at a young age, developing as a football, obviously and then into the club setting and then later into the State of Origin Australian teams, and beyond, what would be some of those habits that you think a professional footballer would pick up that they might not necessarily realize they’re picking up, but hold them in good stead as they go through. Very excited to hear Ben’s views on the world. Denying reports that she and Bennett had split up, she told a reporter at the time: ‘we know where the rumours are coming from’. Yeah, right, I’m a massive Richie Benaud fan, he’s also leftist. He seems like a really genuinely, good guy. By morning, he would be gone, placing complete trust in a woman described by son-in-law, former Queensland Origin player Ben Ikin, as tough and pragmatic as the seven-time title-winning coach. Well, take care yourself. You don’t get that sort of information.

However, speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Ms Cage attempted to play down her Instagram post. Just implement them! Should he get the coveted job – and many believe he will – you can bet your house on this: The White Knight will never coach the Broncos again.

It places Ikin in an awkward position as there is considerable anger from Bennett's family towards Wayne because of the affair.

His two favourite responses to reporters have always been, ‘Why should I tell you?’ and ‘I’m not going there.’. I love the Tao Te Ching written by Lao Tsu, which was the text that sort of underpinned Taoism. I’ve just sort of scaled back now. Then, after IFL I got into hockey. Did you start as a whippersnapper? We’ll go down and do a public speaking engagement together, and I have to jump on Wikipedia and edit my numbers, just so I can sort of respectfully stand on the same stage. Today is an exciting day.

I know and understand how much the game has given me, and that there was many people go before me that made the game as great as it was, so I’d have to go back to 1907/1908 when the game was founded, and invite along the great Delly Messenger. One was Rugby League, and one was Netball. Overnight the newly anointed Queensland Father of the Year became a revered public figure but almost as quickly he pulled the shutters back down. It was an opportunity for me to learn a lot about myself. You trust the person beside you can deliver, and has got your back. Where am I now? Ikin appeared to put the ugly feud behind him on Tuesday as he applied to be the next chief executive of the Brisbane Broncos. That’s fabulous mate. Ever since then, I’ve kind of applied the same philosophy. It’s so totally effort for reward. It’s a sort of seven month a year gig. When I rolled out of professional sport, the one thing I took with me was that just about anything that I was asked to do, I would say “yes, I’ll give it a crack,” because I was so used to building an armoury of self belief to get through the kind, the pressure and the expectation of the NRL season. Ben was also lucky enough to win a premiership with the Brisbane Broncos in the 2000 season. They all count as one person by the way. Until their marriage breakdown in 2016, Wayne Bennett attributed his great success as an NRL coach to his wife Trish (pictured with their three children), by Ben Ikin is a former professional rugby league footballer who played 150 games in the NRL with the Gold Coast Seagulls, North Sydney Bears and Brisbane Broncos. Another quick question for you mate, if you had a favourite book, you’re allowed to take a handful of books, one or two books with you wherever you go, what they be? Who else? That’s correct, right? Second to that, I think I’ve already mentioned this earlier on, is that they’ve got the knowledge that the know how. You’ve been playing all your life? Bennett asked that the media respect his family’s privacy at the time and such is his aura that largely they did, although it was common knowledge that Ben and Beth Ikin were furious and sided 100 per cent with the devastated Trish Bennett. Bennett, 70, was slammed by his son-in-law and former NRL player-turned-commentator Ben Ikin (pictured) on Fox Sports last week, Dale Cage jumped to the defence of her partner of four years (pictured together) on Saturday, The mother-of-three took aim at NRL commentator Ikin with a scathing Instagram post. Anyway, that’s good, so yes, definitely. ‘I have no comment to make,’ she added, refusing to reveal whether she regretted the social media spray that went to the heart of their strained relationship.

I’d like to sit here and probably recount what I learned, and the enormity of what I was going through, but sort of six weeks, my head was just spinning. There’s guys that I with played getting really down in the mouth about injuries, and handled it a different way. If you decide you want to spend more time with your family, then you almost, it sounds silly, but you almost need to diarize it, otherwise, if you’re not scheduling family the same way you’re scheduling meetings or work commitments, then they end up becoming secondary, because if you diary, if you allow your diary to be filled with work, it can happen real easily. When you thought about playing football. My favourite business book is GOOD TO GROW, by Jim Collins. In fact, I joke with them sometimes. At the time, as I say, while from the outside looking in, it might’ve seemed like I was doing it really tough. I’ve got a lot of time off. As you transitioned out of playing footy and into your other roles, you for a period time, were one of the, I think you were a board member of the cowboys up in North Queensland, and what sort of transition was that like? The balance has come, just by virtue of the fact of the job that I do. Ben Ikin has reignited a bitter feud with his estranged father-in-law Wayne Bennett by shutting down reports the NRL supercoach could return to the Brisbane Broncos. What a … For a young boy of 18, what a massive shot of confidence that must’ve given you, because even though you’d had that second year of year 12, to really put into your Rugby League, and obviously NRL offers, to be thrust into that, onto that enormous stage so early in your career. At the time, the notoriously private Bennett revealed he was no longer living in the family home and hadn’t for ‘some time’ and requested the media respect his ‘personal privacy’ and that of his family.

I could work sometimes up to 50-60 hours a week when you throw in the travel. Bennett, 70, was slammed by his son-in-law and former NRL player-turned-commentator Ben Ikin on Fox Sports last week after he was fined for breaching the code's strict COVID-19 biosecurity protocols It’s the only way I could describe it. I was at a good club, with the Gold Coast Seagulls, with some guys, you know, clubs that were contacting me, making sure I had my head right, and likewise, by the time I arrived in the State of Origin camp, as I’ve already mentioned, I was rooming with Mark Coyne. Following a triumphant playing career, Ikin spent 5 years with the Nine Network working as a rugby league commentator and co-host of The Sunday Footy Show. He’s been playing … Probably born with a football, I reckon because he played so much. Wayne Bennett’s lover has hit back at claims of an ugly family rift, just days after lashing out at the NRL coaching legend’s estranged family. At their core is a few things, I think that they have in common, you know like, that they all care. Alignment, so you’re all on the same page, hitting in the same direction, and certainty, which is something that great leaders do well.

You can’t walk into a business at least, I don’t know a hell of a lot of people who can, and go that’s wrong, that’s wrong, that’s wrong. Mother-of-three Cage was working as a secretary at a performance physiotherapy clinic when she crossed paths with Bennett during his coaching stint at the Newcastle Knights.