Goodbye, sayonara, adios, piss off.

Whatever language you want to use, Benji Marshall must show Adam Doueihi the door if he wants to maintain his credibility after yet another train wreck of a week at the Wests Tigers.

As if this basket case of a club wasn’t already a laughing stock, now we have one of their highest profile players spitting the dummy and refusing to play after being asked to change positions.

Seriously, can this joint get through one week without a drama of some sort?

Doueihi is said to have other grievances but I don’t give rat’s if he’s happy or unhappy.

You’re getting paid good coin to do a job at a time when your club is clinging on to hopes of playing finals football for the first time since 2011.

Predictably, a below-strength Tigers were flogged by Canberra, while Doueihi sat on his arse back in Sydney.

Are you absolutely kidding me?

The coach is always right, even when he’s wrong.

It’s called respect.

Imagine telling a Bob Fulton or a Craig Bellamy or a Wayne Bennett you are not playing because you have a beef with something, or someone, at the club.

They would have kicked you to the kerb and rightly so.

Marshall and Doueihi have a meeting planned for Monday to try and broker peace, but it should be a short one.

I know all the new-age types will be tell me it’s a different world now and players’ feelings must be taken into account.

Unless it’s for genuine mental health issues, I call bullshit on that.

If I don’t turn up for work, guess what? I get the bullet.

How does Doueihi look Benji in the eye and tell him he’s right behind him for the next three years?

More importantly, how does he win back the respect of those teammates who had to go into battle without him in Canberra?

Josh Morris played 325 NRL games and knows team dynamics better than most.

And this is what he had to say about the Doueihi stand-off: “I don’t see how he walks in there on Monday and it being all chummy.

“Will they all turn their backs on him and say, ‘we don’t want you here’. You weren’t there for us when we needed you. Are you only going to be there when it suits you or are you going to be here when we are in trouble?”

It’s a fair question to ask.

Doueihi may get fined for his sulk but that’s not really going to solve the situation.

Hitting you in the hip pocket used to hurt back in the day because most of us were on ordinary money when we started out.

I remember Souths fining players in the late 1990s if they picked up a suspension.

All it led to was a drop off in defence because no bastard wanted to put their body on the line.

Relieving Doueihi of a few thousand dollars won’t hurt as much as showing him the door.

It may even have happened by the time you read this.

If so, it will send the strongest statements of intent from Benji Marshall.

And it may just be the making of him as an NRL coach.

AND DON’T GET ME STARTED

Cronulla are timing their premiership run to perfection.

They’ve caught fire at the right time and now sit alongside the Roosters, Panthers and Warriors as genuine contenders.

Manly were poor on Sunday (more on that later) but the Sharks were ruthlessly brilliant.

There are many boxes to tick if you are to win a comp and Cronulla have them all covered.

Big, tough forwards with skill? Tick.

Clever halves with ball playing ability and flawless kicking games? Tick.

A relentless defence where every player knows his role? Tick.

A coach with plenty of finals experience who knows what it takes as a player to win a competition? Tick.

Cue the Jaws music… this Sharks side is the real deal, baby.

Now, reluctantly, I need to discuss Manly and I’m not going to sugarcoat things.

To turn in a performance like that on old boys’ day was embarrassing.

When I played for the Sea Eagles, we always put a line under that fixture.

Former players would come in and tell you about their time at the club and how important it was to keep that tradition going.

You’d feel 10ft tall running through the tunnel of greats and out onto Brookie oval in front of a full house.

If they didn’t get you up for a game, nothing would.

So it was extremely disappointing to see this Manly side put up such a limp performance.

All done and dusted after 40 minutes. It was complete and utter garbage.

At the moment, the Brookie Fortress looks like it’s built out of paper.