{"id":323895,"date":"2023-08-16T01:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T01:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=323895"},"modified":"2023-08-16T04:59:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T04:59:30","slug":"benji-in-crosshairs-as-tigers-blood-letting-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=323895","title":{"rendered":"Benji in crosshairs as Tigers 'blood-letting' revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The blood-letting at Wests Tigers<\/a> is set to continue – with club legend Benji Marshall<\/a> the next target.<\/p>\n

Club insiders on Wednesday leaked their intention to push aside head coach Tim Sheens<\/a> midway through his two-year deal.<\/p>\n

But Wide World if Sports has learned the club is also gunning for Marshall, the man being groomed as his successor.<\/p>\n

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The club made a play to sign experienced former Titans coach Justin Holbrook recently, but he opted to join the Roosters.<\/p>\n

Tigers chairman Lee Hagipantelis and chief executive Justin Pascoe are also believed to be eyeing former Sharks coach John Morris, currently an assistant at Souths.<\/p>\n

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"They sounded out both of them and Benji is their next target," a source close to the club said.<\/p>\n

"They don't think Benji is ready for a head coach role with no experience at that level, particularly with such a young team that has been struggling."<\/p>\n

It's common knowledge that Marshall does not get on with the Tigers' new recruitment boss Scott Fulton, who wields considerable power at the club.<\/p>\n

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The Tigers are expected to offer Sheens to continue in his role as director of football next season – but the veteran coach may choose to walk away from the club entirely.<\/p>\n

Another former club great, current assistant coach Robbie Farah, is set to be handed a senior football management role once Sheens moves aside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blood-letting at Wests Tigers is set to continue – with club legend Benji Marshall the next target. Club insiders on Wednesday leaked their intention […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323898,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323895\/revisions\/323898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}