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    Coach Mick Potter to punt on Miller as halfback

    NEW Wests Tigers coach Mick Potter is prepared to pin his faith on a 20-year-old with just five NRL appearances to cure the team's halves conundrum. Virtually overlooked for first grade despite leading the Tigers NYC feeder team to premiership glory last year, Jacob Miller now has the inside...
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    Potter to take reins from Sheens

    WESTS TIGERS officials are set to end their month-long hunt for a new coach by appointing Mick Potter to replace Tim Sheens today. Potter, this season's Super League coach of the year, has been interviewed twice by a subcommittee appointed to oversee the search following Sheens's sacking on...
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    Parish firms for Wests Tigers coaching job

    MATT Parish remains firm favourite to coach Wests Tigers next season ahead of rivals Nathan Brown, Kevin Walters and Jim Dymock. Parish has the necessary board support to take over next season from sacked Tim Sheens. Dymock is highly regarded but is reluctant to leave Canterbury, where he is...
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    Sheens Quits MEGATHREAD

    There are conflicting stories in this morning's media regarding the future of Tim Sheens, with some papers claiming he has already quit. [Sydney Morning Herald reports:](http://www.watoday.com.au/breaking-news-sport/sheens-to-leave-tigers–report-20120925-26htx.html) Wests Tigers coach Tim...
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    Tigers delay call on Sheens

    Wests Tigers have delayed making a call on coach Tim Sheens' expected departure from the NRL club. An anticipated board meeting at the club's Concord headquarters failed to materialise on Monday night - with the end of season review triggered by the side's dismal 2012 showing set to continue in...
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    Sheens survives at Tigers for now

    Wests Tigers coach Tim Sheens survived the NRL club's Thursday night board meeting, but his job will be part of a club review over the coming weeks. Speculation mounted on Thursday that Sheens' 10-year career at the Tigers was to come to an immediate end at the meeting, following a...
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    Tigers dump Beau Ryan and Chris Heighington to the sharks

    THE Cronulla Sharks have signed Wests Tigers winger and Footy Show star Beau Ryan for three years. Ryan will inform the Wests Tigers later today he will be joining former team mates Bryce Gibbs and Andrew Fifita in the Shire. His Wests Tigers second-row team mate Heighington is also expected...
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    Moltzen's new deal takes pressure off

    [By Nathan Ryan](http://www.sportsnewsfirst.com.au/articles/2012/07/16/moltzen-s-new-deal-takes-pressure-off/) - sportsnewsfirst.com.au WESTS Tigers fullback Tim Moltzen's new three-year deal has lifted a weight off his shoulders and he can now concentrate on finishing the season. Moltzen...
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    Sironen finds voice with Tigers

    As he attempts to find his spot in the Wests Tigers side, rookie five-eighth Curtis Sironen says he'll only be as dominant as he wants to be. After a quiet return from minor knee surgery in last week's loss to Canterbury, Sironen was far more involved in Saturday night's 26-18 win over Penrith...
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    Broken-armed but unbowed: Tuqiri insists his career's not over

    AS HE sucked on the ''green whistle'' - the painkilling inhaler - in the dressing room as the clock wound down and the pain ramped up last Friday night, Lote Tuqiri came to the realisation his season was over. But he has since grown more bullish that is career is not. Tuqiri, the Wests Tigers...
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    Sheens honours Farah's request to play

    ROBBIE Farah will make a brave return for Wests Tigers against Newcastle at Hunter Stadium tonight just over a week since losing his mother Sonia to pancreatic cancer. Farah trained with the team yesterday for the first time since Sonia passed away on Sunday June 17\. The Tigers captain and...
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    The bond that ties Farah and Marshall

    Benji Marshall's public show of emotion after the passing of Robbie Farah's mother should finally have dispelled rumours of bad blood between Wests Tigers' two biggest stars. Marshall, who also lost his father, Mick Doherty, to pancreatic cancer two years ago, was reduced to tears as he and the...
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    Rested Robbie ready to rumble

    The star of Origin II is focused on a Roosters side he believes is underrated, writes Daniel Lane. Wests Tigers skipper Robbie Farah, still sporting the scars from his five-star performance for NSW in Wednesday's State of Origin victory, believes the onus is on him to produce another...
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    Surgery to sideline Sironen

    Wests Tigers five-eighth Curtis Sironen is set to undergo minor knee surgery and is expected to miss two matches. The teenager has been ruled out of Sunday's clash against the Sydney Roosters at Leichhardt Oval, with the club confirming his injury on Wednesday. Wests are hopeful of having...
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    Pride and passion the key as Galloway awaits a call-up

    AFTER roaring back into State of Origin calculations for NSW with a series of strong performances for Wests Tigers, prop Keith Galloway said last night he was ready to give the Blues what they want if coach Ricky Stuart picks him. ''If I'm watching the game on TV I'll be passionately supporting...
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    Four Signings Announced

    MAJOR SIGNING NEWS FOR WESTS TIGERSBy Wayne CousinsWednesday 23 May 2012 11:36 AM ![](http://www.weststigers.com.au/site/_content/LeadImage/00027766-leadimage.jpg) [Wests](http://www.weststigers.com.au/news-display/MAJOR-SIGNING-NEWS-FOR-WESTS-TIGERS/55687#) Tigers has today announced the...
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    From Wests Kittens to Tigers

    No-one's calling the Wests Tigers soft now. After four straight victories built on a strong work ethic, with little of the flash for which they are renowned, the Tigers are suddenly back in premiership contention. The winning run has muffled talk the joint venture club wasn't physically up to...
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    Sheens still searches for Tigers spine

    Just 10 rounds into the NRL campaign, the Wests Tigers admit they are still yet to find the right winning formula with coach Tim Sheens tinkering with his 'spine' for the seventh time this year. The Tigers have won their past three matches, seemingly distancing themselves from a five-game...
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    Tigers seeking revenge over Warriors

    Wests Tigers coach Tim Sheens says the club is ready to turn around their patchy NRL form and exact revenge on the Warriors for ending their premiership dream last season. Sheens admitted the Tigers were still burning from the heart-breaking semi-final loss, where Warriors centre Krisnan Inu...
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    Iosefa target for Farah back-up

    WESTS TIGERS have been eyeing former Penrith hooker Masada Iosefa - among others - as a potential mid-season purchase as back-up for Robbie Farah. Tigers recruitment manager Warren McDonnell said yesterday the club was looking at various options to act as an understudy to Farah, and that...
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