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Just think about our half's pairing roster for next year !
As it stands to cover 6 & 7 we have Douehi who having 3rd knee reconstruction will probably not even make the field in 2024 plus we have Wakeham whos on minimum wage and not even signed for next year at this stage .The roster planning is so bad its almost like sabotage .Maybe long term Our KOE CUP team will be the most senior club team and given they are called Western Suburbs Magpies it might make some in Ashfield happy
 
supercoach said:
We were absolutely terrible but look at the Dogs. They had 3 SOO players in their 17, the young guru coach and Mr Rugbyleague in Gus and got smashed at home by a average side.

I think attitude and mental toughness is the most important thing and the Dogs and our mob are severely lacking these qualities
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Imagine being the Cowboys - Tigers put 66 on them - not sure how anyone survives in their team after that.
 
What does people think about signing Michael Cheika? Move Sheens on early or Head of Footy for 24. Promote Benji & have Cheika as new assistant? Or the other way around Cheika coach & leave Benji as assistant. Surely he would add value to the club
 
BAGNF05 said:
We have better options in the gear shed, a stack of witches hats would do a better job.
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Tim would use your idea to hire his old mate Royce to put them out and we don't need another link to 2 decades ago as what we have is stinking up the place enough
 
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Jeez Adam Clune is looking good right now. I'm serious.

See if we can get him across now on for rest of this season & next season. His experience & direction will help over the last 2 months & then he can revert to our backup halfback next season (instead of Wakeham). He'd be very good for our NSW Cup team next season.
 
Demps said:
Lomax has his issues but he's so much better than what we have...

Some turning their nose up at him when that's the reality, he'd be our best and most experienced outside back.
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Papers reporting he is free to talk to other clubs but the Dragons won't be paying any of his contract. We'd be looking at paying $800K for two years, as in $800K per year if you believe the Tele
 
clokan said:
Papers reporting he is free to talk to other clubs but the Dragons won't be paying any of his contract. We'd be looking at paying $800K for two years, as in $800K per year if you believe the Tele
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Not worth it
 
tiger_one said:
Can someone download the article for free reading here?
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The Wests Tigers are set to fast-track Benji Marshallā€™s ascension to the head coaching role in time for the start of the 2024 pre-season.
While Tim Sheens will remain the head coach in name, the club has mapped out a plan for Marshall to assume his responsibilities when the team returns for pre-season training in November.

The club had originally planned to give Marshall a two-year apprenticeship under the guidance of Sheens. However, Tigers powerbrokers believe they need to fast-track the handover after just nine months.
Saturday nightā€™s 74-0 shellacking at the hands of the North Queensland Cowboys has once again placed a question mark over the clubā€™s decision to invest so heavily in the Sheens-Marshall combination.

The Tigers have given no thought to parting ways with Sheens, but believe Marshall is ready to step up and take control of the team.
Sources with knowledge of the situation talking under the condition of anonymity confirmed Marshall has a far greater say in the running of the team than he did at the start of the year, but Sheens is still the senior figure who has the final say. Sheens is still in charge of team selection.

Those roles are set to change over the off-season, with Marshall to become the loudest voice in the room and Sheens to take a step back to oversee the development of the man who led the club to its only premiership back in 2005.
The Tigers still want Sheens to shield his protege from the bullets over the next year, which is why the veteran coach is expected to keep his tag as head coach and front the cameras.


Marshall has impressed the players with his demeanour and tactical nous since joining the coaching staff, with many inside the organisation of the opinion heā€™s ready to assume the head coaching duties.
The criticism from within the playing group under the Michael Maguire regime reflected a belief the coach lacked the communication skills for them to flourish on game day.

There is a feeling within the club that players are receiving mixed messages as a result of having two senior coaching figures. Some officials believe that having a singular figurehead on the coaching staff will help solve that problem.
In an interview with this masthead before the season, Sheens had foreseen a potential shift in the clubā€™s plan given what heā€™d seen from Marshall over the pre-season.

ā€œHeā€™ll kill it,ā€ Sheens told this masthead back in January. ā€œHeā€™ll make it, easy. Thereā€™s just no doubt. ā€œIn two yearsā€™ time heā€™ll be ready to go easy. In fact, I reckon in 12 monthsā€™ time Iā€™ll have to watch my back.ā€
ā€œIā€™m an interim coach, basically. And Iā€™m happy about that. I have my say still. Iā€™ve still got the big stick, but at the end of the day if they [Marshall and fellow assistant Robbie Farah] want to run with something and Iā€™m happy with it, I let them run with it because thatā€™s teaching them what they need to do.ā€

Tigers officials would not comment when contacted by this masthead on Sunday.
Some Tigers fans would prefer the bullets being aimed at Sheens to be directed towards management and directors, who decided an untested rookie coach in partnership with an ageing veteran mentor was the blueprint out of the clubā€™s predicament.

While the loss to the Cowboys, the third biggest in NRL history, saw the club sink to a new low, the Tigers are clinging to the areas of improvement.
Coming into the game against the Cowboys, the Tigers had conceded just 22.9 points per game and had only once leaked more than 28 points in a match.

Thatā€™s a notable improvement on the 28.3 points per game they conceded under Michael Maguire and Brett Kimmorley last year. Yet they remain at the bottom of the ladder.
The fact the Tigers have lost five games this year by a converted try or less may provide some cause for comfort to those within the building.

The development of some of the gameā€™s best young talent, including Jahream Bula and Fonua Pole, also provides light at the end of the tunnel, yet there remains a passionate fan base fed up with incompetence and ineptitude from a team that will this season miss the finals for a 12th consecutive year.
With Luke Brooks on his way out, Marshallā€™s first task is to find a replacement. The club is holding out hope of signing Manly teenage sensation Latu Fainu to wear Marshallā€™s famous No.6 jersey.
The club has also expressed interest in the likes of Brayden Trindall and Jack Cogger to play halfback. That job is now for new recruitment boss Scott Fulton to try and sort out.
Regardless of job titles and positions, it is Marshallā€™s voice which will soon matter most.
 
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