So not sure if this is the best place for this as he is gone now, but had an interesting conversation with my son yesterday up her in Townsville.
He's been doing Sports Therapy and Physio at uni up here and one of his lecturers works with the Cowboys. (and the students do practice work at the training centre).
The Lecturer knows my boy is a tigers lad so told him of a conversation held with Bateman (don't know if it was face to face or not) and he asked what's really gong on down at the tigers.
Interestingly enough Bateman said that the place is great, the team is good he and Benji contrary to popular belief are fine and he said Benji was an excellent coach, has been really proactive at keeping the young kids humble and on track and building a culture of success.
He said the reason he wanted out so bad was the front of house, its an absolute disaster (we all know this) and its just too much crap
take of this what you want, just thought id pass it on as im certainly not one to have contacts or anything to add here very often