Coach Sheens to commit till end of 2010

[innsaneink]

I agree with you to a point eddie, one positive I see with this is I think it vitually assures us Simmons will never get the senior job......will he stick around as assistant for another 3 years thus giving him 7 years as AC...if he cant get a senior gig elsewhere in that time (which I'd put money on) he never will, and we'd be insane to pass on Gentle who will by then have had three years with the kids hes now got in the 20s and they will by then be ready/or already established in first grade.

 

[themanonthehill]

Who the hell would be dumb enough to take Sizzler on as a head coach. He's had his shot and a spoon and defences that leaked like a sieve were his forte and as defensive coach at the Tigers he has shown he still has the ability to has his defence leaking like a sieve, showing he's learned nothing in the 7 yrs since his spoon.

Sheens has shown he is an ordinary coach in all but one of the past 11 seasons when he had the planets aligned. How he was unable to motivate the side for the souths game or have a side beat the wooden spooners (at that stage) from 12 up with 8 to go should have led to far more questions being asked.

But we all know noyce is hardly a visionary and Tom SHines will be dining out on the success/fluke of 2005 until 2010 despite him having his side unable to limp home past a Lockyer-less Broncos and a basket case like soufs in 2007

 

[innsaneink]

Meh...could be worse.

 

[Gee_Up]

Stability is good but Sheens stock has dropped since the GF win.

 

[bubblesunlimited]

Sheens to sign new Tigers deal
By Margie McDonald
December 18, 2007 ANOTHER piece of the coaching puzzle will fall into place when Wests Tigers announce Tim Sheens will extend his time with the club until 2010.

Hot on the heels of Ricky Stuart announcing he will remain at Cronulla until 2011, Sheens putting pen to paper removes another high-quality coach from the market.

Up until last weekend, there were five coaches whose contracts were due to run out next season: Stuart, Sheens, Nathan Brown at St George Illawarra, Steve Folkes at the Bulldogs and Graham Murray at the North Queensland Cowboys.

Brown and Folkes are rumoured to be under pressure to perform over the first six to eight rounds of the season.

But the removal of talent such as Stuart, 2002 premiership winner with the Roosters and the Test coach, and Sheens, a four-time premiership winner with Canberra (1989, 90, 94) and with the Tigers (2005) might ease the pressure a little.

But former Warriors coach Daniel Anderson has made no secret of the fact he would like to coach in the NRL in 2009. His success in England with St Helens, where he has won the Challenge Cup, Super League grand finals and the World Club Challenge, will not have gone unnoticed.

Wests Tigers chief executive Steve Noyce would not confirm Sheens re-signing last night, but it is understood the deal has been done.

Despite the speculation over the future of several coaches, there will be no changes for the start of the 2008 season, in contrast to 2007 when seven clubs had a new man in charge: Canberra (Neil Henry), Sharks (Stuart), Newcastle (Brian Smith), Parramatta (Michael Hagan), Penrith (Matt Elliott), Souths (Jason Taylor) and Roosters (Chris Anderson).

Chris Anderson left the Roosters after a 56-0 hammering from Manly in round 17. Brad Fittler was appointed coach.

It was the second year in a row the Roosters sacked their coach, dropping Stuart in August 2006.


www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,22940685-23214,00.html

 

[themanonthehill]

Good to see Ronald's mrs getting the scoops as well
Wests Tigers certainly are the family club .. Ronald, Sue and Junior Burger

 

[scarcev]

HAHAHAHA :lol: :lol: :lol:

Another few years of listening to MOTH and friends....'39% blah blah blah' how sweet it is. To say youd rather have Brown demonstrates how little you know. Brown has done nothing with a practical rep side, Sheens won a premiership with not one rep player. I probably wouldnt have signed him now but Brown, sheesh you are kidding.

 

[Vicious]

What can you say ? I probably would`ve opted for a younger, hungrier up and comer with past links to the club such as Shane Flanagan or Stephen Kearney, but i`m prepared to see how next season goes before sticking the knife in too far.

 

[Spot]

manonthehill is probably on his way to the gap as we speak

More than happy to drive him there myself

 

[Stagger eel]

maybe Benji has put the hard word on the club to re-sign him given that he's off contract at the end of 08?

 

[super_coach]

Gee what are they going to do if this season like most others ends in disaster. Even Essondon flicked Sheedy in the gay F L .

 

[themanonthehill]

Noyce will then sign him til 2012
You could not make this f**king sh*t up

 

[N.C.]

couldn't make this what shut up mithy?

oh, right...

 

[themanonthehill]

Only the tigers would extend the contract of a myth of a coach like shines
Still what do you expect when such decisions are made by a man who whores the club's home games out for 5c a throw

 

[Eddie.]

Coach Shines


"Most people don't. We won't be rated as favourites next year, we weren't in `05 either but we'll come out and everyone will have to be prepared to play us."

After the horror injury run the club has experienced since its 2005 success, Sheens is hoping higher beings will look favourably upon the Tigers in 2008 and beyond.

"Given the injury gods look after us reasonably, we'll give as much cheek as anyone," he said.

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Mr Coach, please stop going on about how people didn't rate us in 2005. People didn't rate us in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007 and they were right not to rate us. They have been right 4 out of 5 times.

Mr Coach, the injury gods did look after us. We had near a full strength sqaud ther last 2 months and you won 2 out of 8 fixtures. In the last round we fielded out a full strength side against a bunch of bush players without a win in months plus old man Buderus in a wheelchair managed to knock us off.

Mr Coach, whilst you continue to get a cushy run from the media, some Tigers fans won't have the wool pulled over their eyes again with rubbish excuses regarding refs and injuries and young squads. Your pathetic selections and recruitment in the past 2 seasons have put you well and truly under the microscope and anything other then a Winning season (Eg -41% wont quite do it) finish and you should pack your bags and head upstairs elsewhere and take your good for nothing sidekick with you.

 

[themanonthehill]

The WTF are orgasmic over this signing and some of the bedwetting has to be seen to be believed from these mongs to be believed. The man who had Farah in PL and Benji Reynolds as interchange hooker in 2005 ... the man who had Benji Reynolds in the halves ahead of Benji Marshall ... the man who brought a chain smoking fireman out of retirement ... the man who signed a player who'd never worn the 7 shirt in his life to replace a Clive Churchill medal winner ... the man who had the side playing as if they were ina slumber against soufs and a packed Leichhardt. He's a f**king fraud and nothing less

 

[Eddie.]

SHould we be taking bets for which Round Sheens

* Puts Farah in the 7 ( Ill stick my neckout and say Round 12)
* Uses only 16 players ( Round 3)
* Plays an outside back in the backrow (Round 5)
* rolls out the reasons for not making the 8 (Round 22)

 

[TV Ted Ellery]

I've been out of the loop for a while so I didn't hear what the club proffered as expanation for Sheens' contract renewal. As everybody has said, the timing does seem a little odd. What would prompt them to rush into negotiating with a bloke whose recent results have been dysmal? Why would we commit for so long as well? It seems that the contract was brokered on his terms!

I can only think that Sheens has a strong rapport with senior players ie Benji and with him staying on it may convince them to continue at the club as well. Having said that, Ricky Stuart seemingly has amazing ability to attract players yet the Roosters didn't hesitate in giving him the arse.

Sometimes I also think there is a prevailing fear that if you take out the head coach the club will collapse from within. In my opinion this places too much emphasis on the influence of head coach when game plans/training approaches are standardised and implimented across the board.

Sheens has done a reasonable job with us when compared with the two jokers who proceeded him and I think there is sufficient platform for a successor to take the healm. However, the Tigers have chosen to persist with the old man so I suppose we should grin and bear it. Maybe we see how things pan out this year- I'm pretty confident- although any post-season reflection or "I told you so" like rhetoric will be hollow since the club in their wisdom signed the bloke up for longer than he deserved.

 

[TV Ted Ellery]

http://www.sportsaustralia.com/articles/news.php?id=2787


Game’s Top Coach extends stay with Wests Tigers

Wests Tigers
Wednesday December 19, 2007


Wests Tigers today announced the re-signing of the most capped coach in rugby league history in Tim Sheens until the end of 2010.

Sheens is the longest serving coach in the NRL, having overseen a record 544 games. His record stands at 274 wins, 259 losses, and 11 draws.

A four-time premiership winning coach, Sheens was off contract at the end of 2008 but has agreed to a further two years with Wests Tigers on top of his current deal.

The announcement was made at Liquidity Waterfront Restaurant at Rozelle Bay, and included special guest, Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy.

League legend and now Country Origin coach, Laurie Daley, was a last minute withdrawal but spoke to Sheens via phone to congratulate him. Bellamy and Daley played under Sheens at Canberra Raiders.

“By me being at Wests Tigers for a further two years after next season allows the club the chance to plan for the future,” Sheens said.

“I had to make a decision now as everything is done 12 months in advance.”

“The club was happy with the youth strategy I have put in place and obviously I am keen to see the results come through over the next two to three years.”

“I am excited to be able to keep working with our players and continue to work on the development of our young players coming through at Wests and Balmain.”

Sheens took over the helm at Wests Tigers in 2003 and delivered the club its very first premiership victory two years later through playing an exciting and attacking brand of rugby league.


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I suppose that answers my question.

I don't really agree with the justification but I'm not the one making the decision so what difference does it make?

 

[themanonthehill]

We are the ones who will have to put up with watching mediocre performances and the selection of underperforming dross. Then there is the issue of coach shines' record in the recruitment department