Robbie Farah denies wanting Mick Potter sacked and says he won’t quit Wests Tigers

ROBBIE Farah has denied wanting Mick Potter sacked and refuted claims he was behind the demise of Tim Sheens and Benji Marshall.

Robbie Farah at Wests Tigers training session at Concord Oval, Sydney. Picture: CRAIG WILSON

WESTS Tigers skipper Robbie Farah has vehemently denied wanting coach Mick Potter sacked — and also refuted long-held suspicions he was behind the demise of former coach Tim Sheens and superstar Benji Marshall.

In a wideranging interview on The Footy Show, Farah stressed he wasn’t going to walk away from Wests Tigers, despite suffering abuse at the hands of angry fans through the current drama.

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Asked by Nine’s Phil Gould whether he got rid of Sheens, Farah deadpanned: “No.”

Did he get rid of Marshall?

“No, not at all.”

Was he agitating for the removal of Potter?

“No. God no.”

Robbie Farah denied he was behind Tim Sheens and Benji Marshall leaving the club.

Farah also denied ever going to management or the board seeking a new coach.

Asked was it the board who determined the coach for 2015, Farah said: “That’s the way it works. Players aren’t there to pick the coach. That is what management gets paid for.

“We are there to play football. At the end of the day, that is a decision they have to make. The players, we support the coach no matter who it is.

“If Mick gets the job again for next year, he will have our full support. If it’s another coach, we have to get on with the job and continue to do what’s best for this footy club and that’s win games.

“There is no problem between myself and Mick. We have a really good working relationship, we are very honest and upfront with each other, we know we have to be to try and improve this club.”

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Reminded he was a senior player at Wests Tigers who was sought after by the media, Farah added: “That’s the thing, people always come to me for answers. I just want to worry about football. They are asking me questions on management and decisions to be made, that’s not my job. My job is to try and captain a footy side to the best of my ability.

“They are looking for the wrong place and answers . . . I’m not there making these decisions. They need to go to the decision-makers for these answers. At the moment I just feel all that pressure is being heaped on me.”

Mick Potter’s future at the club and relationship with Farah remains unclear.

Farah claimed to be hurt when abused by his own Wests Tigers fans for his alleged role in plotting Potter’s downfall.

“I had nothing to be worried about because I had done nothing wrong. And I have been through worse in the past (but this (drama) got to me.

“We have a young group and I should have been better for them. That is why I apologised to them. I had Tigers fans abusing me, abuse coming from everywhere, different sorts of articles being written about me, it’s not nice and it got to me.

“The Tigers fans (abuse), that hurt me. That really affected me a lot.”

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Farah laid to rest talk he wanted to quit the club.

“At times, it was true. Everything came down on my pretty hard and I thought: ‘Is it all worth it?’,” he said.

“I even messaged Mick and said: ‘Mate, maybe I’m not in a position to captain this club at this point in time’.

“But having the emotion of it now there is no doubt that I love this club and will defend this club to the death and I don’t want to be anywhere else.

“I will keep giving my all for this club. I’m not walking away.”

Originally published as Robbie Farah denies wanting Mick Potter sacked and says he won’t quit Wests Tigers