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Incoming Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett has declared Latrell Mitchell 'will beryllium our fullback' successful 2025 arsenic nan maestro mentor insists only an 'idiot' would effort to alteration nan measurement nan scandal-hit prima plays.
Bennett officially starts activity astatine Souths connected November 1, but nan wheels are already good and genuinely successful mobility for his return.
Mitchell, 27, will request to nutrient successful 2025 aft a nightmare run that saw him play conscionable 11 games owed to wounded and suspension.
Title favourites successful nan eyes of galore pundits successful nan off-season, South Sydney finished a dismal 2nd last, pinch coach Jason Demetriou sacked successful April pursuing 12 months of mediocre results.
Bennett, 74, has returned to nan nine aft winding up his commitments astatine nan Dolphins - and knows he has a playing roster that tin situation for a premiership.
The overmuch maligned Mitchell will beryllium a cardinal figure, and nan supercoach expects his no.1 to consistently showcase his talent.
But don't expect to spot wholesale changes from nan Indigenous domiciled model.
'I'm not an idiot,' Bennett told News Corp. 'I won't beryllium changing Latrell. I will conscionable fto him play, that's what he does best.
Incoming Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett has revealed Latrell Mitchell (pictured together) 'will beryllium our fullback' successful 2025 arsenic nan maestro mentor looks to get nan scandal-plagued NRL superstar's profession backmost connected track
Mitchell, 27, will request to nutrient successful 2025 aft a nightmare run that saw him play conscionable 11 games owed to wounded and suspension - and bull a good and playing prohibition aft being photographed pinch a enigma achromatic constituent (pictured)
Bennett, 74, has returned to nan nine aft winding up his commitments astatine nan Dolphins - and knows he has a roster that tin situation for a premiership
Souths will beryllium praying that reuniting Mitchell (pictured) pinch nan maestro mentor will spot him return to apical shape - and enactment retired of trouble
'He will start pre-season pinch everyone other ... Latrell will beryllium our fullback.
'I'm looking guardant to reuniting pinch Latrell and each nan guys.'
Mitchell won't look backmost astatine 2024 pinch overmuch fondness connected and disconnected nan field.
He has been a magnet for contention astatine times - he was suspended for 3 matches pursuing a late elbow connected Warriors halfback Shaun Johnson and past engaged successful a war of words pinch Anthony Mundine which dragged connected for weeks pursuing nan Spencer Leniu and Ezra Mam racism saga.
Throw successful his expletive-laden station crippled Triple M interview, his nationalist disagreement pinch NRL 360 big Braith Anasta astatine a Sydney restaurant followed by his now infamous white powder photograph from a Dubbo edifice room past period - and it understandable fed up nine officials want to spot drastic changes.
Mitchell will besides sit retired South Sydney's first title lucifer of 2025 after he was handed a one-game prohibition from nan NRL pursuing nan achromatic powder saga.
Daily Mail Australia does not propose it was an illicit drug.
Bennett has besides handed a lifeline to erstwhile Sea Eagles young weapon Josh Schuster and confirmed Cody Walker will displacement backmost to his preferred position of five-eighth.
