Wests Tigers call time on Tim Sheens after horror season
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The Wests Tigers are set to drop a bombshell barely one season into the club’s five-year plan, calling time on Tim Sheens’ tenure as head coach.
The Tigers have responded to concerns raised by key stakeholders within the club and the sport by significantly reducing the role of the 2005 premiership-winning coach.
It is expected Sheens won’t coach next year, nor will he return to the general manager role which he assumed before taking on the job as Michael Maguire’s successor this year.
Sheens has given the club his blessing for Benji Marshall to take over as coach but had expectations that he would return to his administration role.
The club is expected to keep him around in an ambassador and mentoring role if he wants to continue.
Sheens was meant to be head coach for two years and help transition Marshall into a top-line coach in time for him to take complete control of the team in 2025.
Wests Tigers coach Tim Sheens.Credit: Getty
Sheens’ power at the club has been diluted significantly over the course of the year with one club insider telling this masthead that Sheens had very little input for the club’s last game against the Warriors in New Zealand.
This masthead has been told that Sheens hasn’t been seen at the club’s Concord headquarters for the past couple of days. Club powerbrokers have held a series of meetings over the past 48 hours to reach the decision.
Marshall will now have complete control of the team and is contracted until the end of 2027.
This masthead has contacted Sheens and the Tigers for comment.
More to come.
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