Kevin Walters wants to see more resilience from Brisbane when his former mentor and South Sydney boss Wayne Bennett inevitably puts the blowtorch on their fragile defence on Thursday night. NRL rivals picked apart the Broncos' edge and middle defence like never before as they collected the wooden spoon last season and things have hardly improved despite Walters' arrival in 2021. "Players are aware of that and we've spent a good focus of our time on ourselves on what happens when things aren't going so well," Walters said. "We'll be under pressure at various stages, so we'll see the resilience and if there's been any improvement there." Walters said it would be "weird" to coach against Bennett, who coached him and has also coached with him when Walters was a Brisbane assistant. "It's a privilege to be coaching against him at this level; he's well over the 700 mark now in games coached and I'm up to number five," Walters said. "He's a big influence ... we were first introduced to each other when I was 16 turning 17 and he's been involved ever since in some capacity. "I'm sure it'll be a little bit weird I've got to say, but I'm really grateful."
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