From what we've heard and the fact the dressing room cameras were covered shooting and balling seems to be his style. Being a dictator.
If you want to get a group of young men to work towards a goal that is not the way to go about it. There are of course times when its needed but by all accounts Madge has used it too often.
Look at Wayne Bennett not that long ago he would turn up for training and do the runs with the guys, inspiring people by example is a much better philosophy.
I don't buy into this whole idea that Madge has 'lost the dressing room' because he is a dictator and screams at the players etc. If anything I actually think we need someone who is like that because players in the modern game get away with absolute murder! Player power has gotten out of control and you only have to look at teams like Canberra and the Wests Tigers in recent years to see that anarchy can prevail at a club if it doesn't have a strong coach to keep them in line. Basically, there needs to be someone in charge to call the shots for the club to function as a cohesive unit. I also don't buy into this nonsense about players losing respect for the coach; it almost sounds as if the players have a choice; they don't! It is a players duty to obey their coach or boss, not a moral obligation. They are not being paid big money for nothing! Its like any other organisation - you have a boss who gives the orders and if you continually disobey them you get moved on. You also imply that this approach doesn't work - I think Craig Bellamy disproves you theory.
With regards to Madge giving the team sprays, I think they are warranted given some of the performances they've put in this season. If the team followed his plans and did what he said then there wouldn't be a need for Madge give them a spray would there? Its not that hard! What I also find astounding is the way that everyone puts Wayne Bennett on a pedestal, like he is some mystical sage or a lovable grandfather-like figure. I don't know where this has come from. Make no mistake, Wayne Bennett is as shrewd as they come. This whole notion that he "doesn't coach players but teaches them to be good young me" is a whole lot of cow's dung; he is just saying that to be humble. The Broncos and Dragons didn't become the well-oiled defensive units that they are and were by themselves; they became that way through Wayne's coaching. Moreover, he is just as hard on his players as any other coach. I think if you'd ask any of the players he coached in the 80s and 90s, they'd tell you Wayne was as hard as task master and disciplinarian as they come. I think the likes of Wally Lewis, Sam Backo, Allan Langer, the Walters brothers and co. all felt Wayne's wrath, particularly in the early days of the Broncos.