Chad Townsend discussed his controversial benching during Cronulla's 2016 finals with coach Shane Flanagan on his podcast.
Chad Townsend's shock second-half benching during Cronulla's 2016 qualifying final against the Canberra Raiders remains one of the most talked-about coaching calls of that premiership run.
The circumstances behind it trace back to a chain of late changes forced on Shane Flanagan that night at GIO Stadium.
On one of Chad Townsend's latest episodes of his podcast, The Chad Townsend Show, he sat down with his former coach to discuss the Cronulla Sharks' 2016 premiership glory, as it had been 10 years since the historic upset over the Melbourne Storm.
Townsend asked Flanagan why he was hooked in the first week of the finals.