{"id":286989,"date":"2023-04-18T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T09:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=286989"},"modified":"2023-04-18T09:58:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T09:58:04","slug":"telling-sheens-answer-to-awkward-gal-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=286989","title":{"rendered":"Telling Sheens answer to awkward Gal question"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Sheens<\/a> \ufeffhas steadfastly denied he returned to Australia from England with the intention of coaching in the NRL<\/a> again.<\/p>\n

The 72-year-old is a legend in rugby league Down Under, having coached the Panthers, Raiders, Cowboys, and previously the Tigers<\/a> who he led to the 2005 premiership.<\/p>\n

He also coached Australia for 31 Test matches, as well as New South Wales for one series in 1991.<\/p>\n

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But he's currently facing an almighty battle with his beloved Concord club, which hasn't tasted NRL finals in more than a decade and is wallowing on the bottom of the ladder after seven rounds this season, the team's only competition points coming courtesy of the bye.<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe path by which Sheens returned to the coaching chair was strange, to say the least.<\/p>\n

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The Tigers brought him back as a head of football at the end of 2021, hoping the club legend could resurrect the flailing outfit by helping head coach Michael Maguire.<\/p>\n

Instead Maguire was sacked only a few months later, and Sheens was jettisoned into the job initially as a stop-gap measure.<\/p>\n

Now the club has given him a two-year contract as head coach of the team, with a succession plan in place featuring 2005 premiership hero Benji Marshall.<\/p>\n

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Sheens appeared on Wide World of Sports' 2GB radio on Tuesday and was asked bluntly by Paul Gallen, "\ufeffWhy did you come back?".<\/p>\n

Gallen's pointed question was based around the pressures an NRL head coach faces constantly, insinuating Sheens could have stayed out of the spotlight and handed the reins to someone else.<\/p>\n

"I didn't come back to coach, no matter what people thought," Sheens said.<\/p>\n

\"Gould:<\/p>\n

"I came back to do \ufeffbehind-the-scenes work, which I was quite happy to do.<\/p>\n

"Things didn't work out for Madge (Maguire)\ufeff, the board made a decision… it was left to me to deliver that to him.<\/p>\n

"After that the suggestion was made possibly \ufeffBenji could (coach), if he was mentored under a (Wayne) Bennett system, where Wayne groomed a couple of young coaches to do the job after him.<\/p>\n

"I'm interim coach for two years."<\/p>\n

The Tigers are yet to win a game under Sheens this season and the team has once again been hammered for dire on-field performances.<\/p>\n

But the veteran coach has pleaded for patience.<\/p>\n

"We're still going to \ufeffbe building for the next two years," he said.<\/p>\n

"We'll be in that position (to be competitive) in, I reckon, three years' time."<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe Tigers next take on Manly on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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