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Three Life Members to lead coaching succession plan
Wests Tigers
Wests Tigers have today confirmed that Tim Sheens will take over as the club’s Head Coach in 2023 with his former premiership-winning playmakers Benji Marshall and Robbie Farah by his side.
Sheens will take charge for the 2023 and 2024 seasons as Head Coach, with Marshall and Farah as his assistants. Marshall will then assume the role as Head Coach for a further three seasons (2024-26).
Robbie Farah will also continue his involvement over the next two seasons. He will be an Assistant Coach to Sheens in 2023 and 2024.
This coaching succession plan will bring together more than 1300 games of NRL experience shared between three club icons, who together combined to win Wests Tigers’ maiden premiership in 2005.
CEO Justin Pascoe says this is a perfect way to drive the club forward,
This is about having Wests Tigers DNA surging through the club, and it’s about putting together a rock-solid coaching plan for the next five years."
"This is a very clear path forward for this club and we are delighted to have Tim, Benji and Robbie reunited for the next phase of our club’s growth.”
Benji and Robbie are two of the most talented players this club has seen, and Tim’s coaching record speaks for itself.”
These three have achieved just about everything there is to achieve in the game and this partnership I know will be really, really powerful for our club.”
"It also demonstrates that we are putting pathways in place not just for our players, but for our coaches as well. “
It’s a great day for our club.”
Feel so sorry for Fox and everyone that worked on tales from tiger town right now.
This is the season that should have been filmed...comedy gold
@jedi-tiger I think this is a terrible decision. You assume the other options will fail and then say, “what have we got to lose”. Well, the other options are proven and experienced coaches. They are much less likely to fail than a totally inexperienced former player.
Benji is a lovely person, and a great personality. But he has zero coaching experience. None. Nada.
We are basically running a two year work experience program. The board must love the show Ted Lasso. But a reminder, Ted Lasso is fiction.
How long until Pascoe gets punted so we think?
So is the sheens/marshall really better than the @unhappy tiger and @garry option? Im not sure
I'm stoked. We all talk about building our own and development for players... Why can't this be the same for coaches?
Looking forward to the future!
Wests Tigers to sign Benji Marshall to five-year coaching deal
By Michael Chammas
The Wests Tigers are set to drop one of the biggest coaching bombshells in the history of the game, finalising a five-year deal with Benji Marshall which will see him take over as coach in 2025.
Two decades after the club’s first and only premiership, Marshall and Tim Sheens are set to reunite as part of a 2005 dream team, which is also expected to include former Tigers captain Robbie Farah.
Sources familiar with negotiations told the Herald that Marshall has today agreed to the mammoth deal and will spend the next two seasons as Tim Sheens’ understudy before taking over the reins as head coach.
The Tigers will also announce Sheens as head coach for the 2023 and 2024 seasons, deciding to hand the premierhip-winner control of the team after Panthers assistant coach Cameron Ciraldo opted not to take a five-year deal.
The Herald has also been told that Marshall has played a key role in allaying the concerns of star recruit Isaiah Papali’i, who has been having second thoughts about joining the Wests Tigers on a three-year deal from next year.
Marshall, one of the most revered figures in New Zealand rugby league, spoke to Papali’i about the direction the club is heading with him steering the ship.
Marshall retired from the NRL after last year’s grand final loss with the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
While he has no NRL coaching experience, he has been working with the club’s younger players in a consultancy role throughout the year.
Marshall had little to do with the NRL team and was hesitant to get involved given how the relationship between him and former coach Michael Maguire had deteriorated during the past two years.
The Tigers were considering going through an interview process with potential candidates like John Morris and Shane Flanagan, however there is a view internally that the club would benefit from Sheens’ experience as they attempt to overhaul the roster in the next couple of years.
Sheens is expected to do the heavy lifting during the next two years, working with Marshall to compile a roster that will be challenging for a premiership throughout the legendary No.6’s tenure as coach.
Sheens is also seen as the man who can help nurture the impressive crop of youngsters in the club’s system and develop them from promising teenagers into NRL stars.
Interim coach Brett Kimmorley hasn’t been afraid to debut some of those players. Rookie Fonua Pole was arguably the Tigers’ best player against Parramatta last week in just his second game.
The Tigers also debuted young gun Justin Matamua, who showed why he is so highly regarded at the club despite spending a stint in the sin bin in the loss to the Eels at Leichhardt Oval last week.
The club is now officially a joke. If true what a dreadful decision.
Again the club let’s the members down by informing them after it’s been released through its web site and the media.
They really need to implement the part where they tell the members that if you sign up you’ll have first hand information relating to the club.
@mike it's true.
Club released a statement at 6.30
Only Wests Tigers would be stupid enough to do this. A disaster in the making.
Just a reminder that in the wake of tonight’s announcement we will be going live on Wests Tigers Radio at 8:30 tonight.
We have some inside info from the club to share.
www.weststigersradio.com.au
Wests Tigers Podcast - Talking everything Wests Tigers!
there’s dead set no pleasing some of you lot.
whinge about Madge. He gets sacked. Still whinge.
Our only coach who has has success is back and is mentoring two club legends to take over.
These guys have passion for the club. Just listen to benji on 360.
Not to mention the power when these three sit down at the table with potential recruits and the apparent gun young bunch of kids we having coming through
Risky hell yeh but I’m 100% behind the decision
“This is about having Wests Tigers DNA surging through the club, and it’s about putting together a rock-solid coaching plan for the next five years."
Justin Pascoe
Yes! If that is indeed the case Mr Pascoe why wasn’t it your first Coaching option then?
Smells of desperation to me, a slight of hand if you will to redirect any scrutiny coming your way…
I guess you have your patsy’s now.
