Unbelivable News Update: The former head coach of the West Tigers,Tim Sheens, has officially announced his return to the team.
Sheens will serve as the team’s head coach for the 2023 and 2024 NRL seasons. Benji Marshall and Robbie Farah, two former premiership-winning playmakers, have been named as his assistants.
After then, Marshall will serve as head coach for three more seasons, starting in 2025 and ending at the end of 2027.
Sheens will succeed interim coach Brett Kimmorley, who was appointed to the position after the team fired former head coach Michael Maguire in June.
With Sheens, Farah, and Marshall leading the Wests Tigers, the trio will have over 1300 NRL games of combined experience.
According to Wests Tigers CEO Justin Pascoe, “this is about having Wests Tigers DNA surging through the club.” “It involves creating an incredibly strong coaching schedule for the ensuing five years.”
“This club has a very obvious route ahead of it. For the next stage of our club’s development, we are thrilled to welcome Tim, Benji, and Robbie back together.
“This club has never seen two more talented players than Benji and Robbie. Tim’s track record as a coach also speaks for itself.
“These three have accomplished nearly everything in the game, and I have no doubt that our club will benefit greatly from their partnership.”
Additional Tim Sheens information
Sheens has been the West Tigers’ most successful and longest-serving coach in team history. In his previous position, which he held from 2003 to 2012, he coached 250 games and won little under 49% of them.
In 1984, the ex-player started coaching the Penrith Panthers. In 2021, he coached the Combined Nations All Stars, North Queensland Cowboys, and Canberra Raiders.
After taking over as head coach of Australia in 2009, he went on to manage Hull KR and Widnes in England.
Tim Sheens, the coach of the Wests Tigers, says he’s prepared to take the criticism this week after his team has lost five straight games to begin the season, but he also promised to be resolute in helping his team get out of a bind.
Important points: The Brisbane Broncos are now atop the NRL leaderboard and have not lost a game this season. The Wests Tigers are the only team in the NRL to not record a victory.
Sheens was instrumental in the 2005 Wests Tigers premiership triumph.
“I will never give up on this group,” Sheens declared following Brisbane’s 46–12 defeat at Lang Park on Saturday.
After 11 years of missing the finals, the Tigers supporters believed that 2005 Premiership-winning coach Sheens, along with his assistants, title-winning heroes Benji Marshall and Robbie Farah, would be the magic combination to turn the club around.
Even though things haven’t gone as planned thus far, four-time premiership-winning coach Sheens is still upbeat.
They are a good set of people, and each one of them is talented. All we need to do is assemble the 17 people and ensure that everything functions properly,” he remarked.
It is my responsibility, and as a coaching group, we must put them together. It will only make things worse for them, so try not to pick them apart or become very worried about it.
“We have to wear a lot of this, and, in saying that, we’ve all got to work a lot harder — staff and players.”
Sheens thought back to the 1999 Broncos team that had lost eight of the first ten games and five straight to begin the season before rallying to make the playoffs.
“These occurrences are possible. Naturally, it becomes more difficult to recover from a setback, but we must find a solution, and we’ll keep pushing ourselves to do so,” he remarked.
“You get one win, you’ll get two and maybe you are up and running.”
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But on Saturday night, the Broncos outperformed the Tigers in every way.
Sheens claimed, “We kept shooting ourselves in the foot.”
The Broncos loss showed several weaknesses in the team, even though they had been competitive in the games they had lost in the first four rounds.
