Wests Tigers Podcast - Talking everything Wests Tigers!
Prince is keen to get onboard.
Wests Tigers Podcast - Talking everything Wests Tigers!
Prince is keen to get onboard.
I'm all for brining in good people/coaches with WT heritage - particularly one which cen help attract/retain good players.
Is there a limit on how many halves/attacking coaches will can have? Other than $$$
Top 8 2023
Benji quits Fox and MMM to concentrate on Tigers.
Wests Tigers Podcast - Talking everything Wests Tigers!
Hearing Benji and Sheens discussing the style of football they want the team to play is so exciting instead of tired tripe of getting into the grind, ebbs and flow, winning the arm wrestle etc. Sheens made a point in the SEN interview that he wants the team to be different from the others with a focus on offence.
I feel like we have spent the last 10 years (since we sacked sheens) trying to mimic the successful teams (Melbourne, Roosters etc). Not maintaining our unique style.
This is why I think we have made the right choice. We have finally decided to stop being like everyone else and instead create our own identity.
Benji quits Fox and MMM to concentrate on Tigers.
Genuinely impressive. Im starting to get sold on the idea. They are certainly walking their talk.
Prince is keen to get onboard.
Its all bluff. Prince lives in Bne and is all set up up there. He is not coming down here for a minor role as "halves coach".
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-game-with-benji-marshall/id1613005147?i=1000570559460
i really like hearing Benji talk about playing to the strengths of the players rather than coaching to a predefined style. This is so great to hear. It’s been so obvious that Madge wanted his style and he had to turn over the entire squad to find players that met his need. And even then he couldn’t recruit enough given out position.
i really like hearing Benji talk about playing to the strengths of the players rather than coaching to a predefined style.
In contrast, haven't both Sheens and Benji publicly proclaimed they're going to play an attacking, expansive style game?
i really like hearing Benji talk about playing to the strengths of the players rather than coaching to a predefined style.
In contrast, haven't both Sheens and Benji publicly proclaimed they're going to play an attacking, expansive style game?
I think I’ve heard both say they want to allow the players to express themselves and play to their strengths. If anything I have heard them push back when people say “attacking style”.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-game-with-benji-marshall/id1613005147?i=1000570559460
i really like hearing Benji talk about playing to the strengths of the players rather than coaching to a predefined style. This is so great to hear. It’s been so obvious that Madge wanted his style and he had to turn over the entire squad to find players that met his need. And even then he couldn’t recruit enough given out position.
Good listen thanks.
It's refreshing to hear a WT coach speak coherently about the game. Sheens is well spoken too. Madge and his 'ebbs and flows' are not missed!
Interesting to pick up one point that Benji made towards the end of the interview - "why dont the storm looking at picking up a Daine Laurie?"
Doesn't leave me convinced that Laurie is part of the long term plan for the club? I wouldn't object to him being moved. We are 16th for kick return metres this year and are from what I recall about 1000m behind the next worse team
i really like hearing Benji talk about playing to the strengths of the players rather than coaching to a predefined style.
In contrast, haven't both Sheens and Benji publicly proclaimed they're going to play an attacking, expansive style game?
I think I’ve heard both say they want to allow the players to express themselves and play to their strengths. If anything I have heard them push back when people say “attacking style”.
This is exactly what good coaches do. Coaches cannot have a predetermined style, it doesn’t work in the age of the salary cap.
Long-term NRL coaching figure David Furner is reportedly set to jump ship and join the Wests Tigers' coaching team for the 2023 season.
Furner has been a constant figure amongst the upheaval at Canterbury this season, having served on Trent Barrett's coaching staff at the start of this season before he quit the post amid form struggles.
It was tipped at one point that Furner would ultimately take over as the club's interim coach, before the role eventually went to Mick Potter who has helped the struggling Bulldogs make a dramatic turnaround.
It's now tipped by News Corp that Furner, who is close with Tim Sheens, will instead make the move in 2023 to Concord, where he will join the coaching staff of the joint venture club.
Sheens will take over as head coach in 2023 and is looking for experienced figures to come into the club to help him teach the next brigade of coaches, led by Benji Marshall, who will take over as head coach in 2025, having signed a five-year deal with the Tigers where he will serve as an assistant for the first two seasons.
Furner certainly fits the bill as an experiences coaching figure. Following a long playing career where he notched up 300 first grade games - 200 with the Canberra Raiders and another 100 in England between the Wigan Warriors and Leeds Rhinos, he took up his first head coaching job with the Raiders in 2009.
Lasting five years in that role before being replaced by Ricky Stuart, he has also spent a year at Leeds as a head coach with limited success.
A former eight-time Origin player for New South Wales, and one-time Test representative for the Kangaroos, it's as an assistant coach where Furner has made his name, bouncing around the competition and becoming highly regarded for his work.
Joining a team which includes Sheens, Marshall and Tim Sheens would give the Tigers another string to an impressively growing bow for 2023, with the club also looking to balance their roster.
https://www.zerotackle.com/bulldogs-assistant-coach-likely-to-find-new-home-for-2023-120625/
Wests Tigers Podcast - Talking everything Wests Tigers!
I just listened to LawPod, the Tim Sheens pt1 & 2 interview with Lee H, and what intrigued me was how Sheens began his career in coaching. It was almost as if the career chose him rather than him choosing the career. I find it fitting that he now, once again, finds himself in a head coaching gig he did not expect himself to be in. I hope he has the same kind of success he has initially when he took over the Panthers role.
