Kangaroos coach Tim Sheens still young and restless at 62
TO STEAL a line from Hollywood, rugby league is no country for old men.
Tim Sheens - who is 62 and has coached more games than any other in the history of the game - is no old man.
That's why he feels no deep-seated hostility or indignation about his messy departure from the Wests Tigers at the end of last season.
"I'm not bitter," says Sheens, opening up for the first time about his removal as Tigers coach after a decade.
"That's the sort of thing old men do, and I don't want to be an old man, mate. Young men don't do it. Young men get on with life.
"If you're going to be bitter about every poor thing that's ever happened in your life, you're going to be punching holes in everyone.
"Referees that didn't do the right thing, officials who didn't do the right thing, the next-door neighbour, the piece of real estate you should have bought ... You have to let some of those things go and move on."
That is why tonight's Anzac Test between Sheens' Kangaroos and New Zealand in Canberra cannot arrive soon enough.
For almost three decades, coaching has been his life. Apart from 2002, when he was in between jobs at the Cowboys and the Tigers, Sheens has had a clipboard in his hand since his first appointment at Penrith in 1984.
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