Wests Tigers coaching shake-up as club legend returns
Benji Marshall will reunite with a 2005 premiership-winning Tigers teammate who is set to return to the club as part of their revamped coaching staff.
Benji Marshall will reunite with a 2005 premiership-winning Tigers teammate who is set to return to the club as part of their revamped coaching staff.
Long-maligned half Luke Brooks finally broke his NRL finals duck on Sunday afternoon, but his former club has entered the chat.
In an unusual and unprecedented act, the Wests Tigers have issued a congratulations to former player Luke Brooks on ending his record finals drought with rival club Manly. Tigers CEO Shane Richardson explains the decision.
A boom rugby league rookie and a powerhouse teenager with one of the most famous surnames in NRL could be playing footy side-by-side for Australia next month – in rugby.
As he prepares to end longest non-finals streak of any player in rugby league history, Manly’s Luke Brooks has revealed the personal toll his criticism-laden tenure at the Wests Tigers took on him and his family.
The Eels should have been celebrating dodging the wooden spoon but a brutal blow may have already wreaked havoc on their 2024 season.
Wests Tigers CEO Shane Richardson insists there are plenty of reasons for optimism at the club suggesting there are parallels with Penrith’s jump from 2002 also-rans to 2003 premiers.
Finishing 16th isn’t much to crow about, but it’s plenty of incentive for the Wests Tigers who are hoping to hand the wooden spoon over to the Eels.
The Tigers have stepped up its pursuit of Jack Bird, inviting the St George Illawarra star to tour the club’s centre of excellence on Tuesday on the same day the club’s recruitment drive landed a Cronulla forward Royce Hunt.
Lachlan Galvin’s remarkable ascension has come at the same time the Tigers have reset their pathways, the result being the careful curation of 210 individual paths for each of their junior players from under-17s to potential NRL graduation.
Wests Tigers CEO Shane Richardson has addressed members over reports of fractures at the joint venture as the club prepares to avoid another wooden spoon.
Balmain, one half of the Wests Tigers joint venture, is reportedly plotting a bombshell move to become a stand alone NRL club again.
A furious Benny Elias and Balmain chair Danny Stapleton have shut down suggestions of friction at the Wests Tigers, insisting the board is fully committed to the joint venture, amid split rumours.
NRL Hall of Famer Ben Elias has been regularly critical of the Wests Tigers over on-field and administrative failures, prompting a specially-convened peace meeting featuring club CEO Shane Richardson and captain Api Koroisau.
Four unlikely finals contenders have emerged following St George Illawarra’s round 25 loss to Cronulla, as the race for the eight heats up. See every contender’s best and worst ladder finish.
A major sponsor and the man who coached the Wests Tigers to their only premiership were notably absent at the club’s 25-year anniversary gala dinner on Friday night.
He’s been the best rookie this season, but Lachlan Galvin won’t be winning the award on Dally M night. His coach says there are bigger things than collecting trophies.
Wests Tigers supporters at the ground and online have relished Luke Brooks’ dismal return to Leichhardt Oval as a Sea Eagle.
The Spoon Bowl showdown in Round 27 looms for the Eels and Tigers, as the battle between the western Sydney rivals is becoming a must-see affair for all NRL fans.
NRL clubs hold a powerful lever in a looming showdown with the ARL Commission over plans for them to share in a $60 million licence fee for Papua New Guinea to enter the league.
It’s a curse which has claimed three victims in three years – but two teams seem immune to the grand final hangover. See every grand finalist’s ladder position in the five years that followed defeat.
Lachlan Galvin who has emerged as one of the best young talents in the game, but he’s had to deal with constant speculation about his future.
A couple of former Tigers have backed Stefano Utoikamanu to become the best prop in the world as he looks to follow in the footsteps of Josh Addo-Carr and others who joined the Storm and became superstars.
For many NRL players, the journey to first grade is a tough slog of trialling, trialling, and trialling again – like Wests Tiger Reuben Porter, who found a home after years of trying to crack a top 17. See the list of 2024’s train-and-trial success stories.
The Wests Tigers’ season has gone from bad to worse, with one of their best players booked in for season-ending surgery.
From being the most penalised team in the competition, to a lack of stability to the roster, there are plenty of factors behind the Tigers’ worst season start in their history. See the statistics and ongoing problems that are destroying the Tigers.
Benji Marshall was brutally honest in his assessment of the Tigers after they were demolished by the Dragons, saying if the actions don’t change, then the players will.
Benji Marshall was heavily criticised for his mid-season holiday to Fiji last week — after Friday’s game, he’ll be wishing he never came back.
Dragons skipper Ben Hunt has raised more than a few eyebrows after a bizarre blow up that threatened to overshadow his brilliant masterclass.
Benji Marshall is back from a trip to Fiji that raised a few eyebrows but is more concerned about a worrying trend that has cost his side in 2024.
The Wests Tigers are desperate for a star forward to sign a new deal with the club, but his omission from the NSW squad has made things tougher.
Api Koroisau had a blunt message for critics who had an issue with Benji Marshall’s mid-season getaway to Fiji.
Api Koroisau is used to making plenty of tackles, but the Tigers star had to defend his coach on Tuesday following criticism over a mid-season getaway.
The Wests Tigers have dropped eight straight losses entering into this weekend’s bye, yet coach Benji Marshall still went away to Fiji. The rookie mentor explains why to Phil Rothfield.
NRL figures have come out to support Benji Marshall and wife Zoe after the glamour couple came under fire.
As we approach the halfway point of the NRL season, five clubs can begin planning their Mad Mondays. PHIL ROTHFIELD reveals the finals certainties, the likely contenders, the maybes and the teams already on the finals scrapheap.
Queensland star Valentine Holmes is clear to play in Origin I after the NRL’s match review committee handed him a lenient punishment for a hip drop tackle committed on Friday night.
Debate has erupted after Cowboys and Queensland star Valentine Holmes was sin binned for a hip drop on the eve of Origin selection.
The Penrith Panthers have landed a huge blow in the NRL player market in a deal that will make the premiers even stronger.
Benji Marshall is reportedly at the centre of a Wests Tigers “gutting” operation with big name stars rumoured to be leaving.
Isaiah Papali’i has been granted permission to leave the Wests Tigers in a move that is set to spark a bidding war from rivals, while also highlighting the Tigers’ plan to overhaul its underperforming roster.
Tigers forward and NZ international Isaiah Papali’i is set to reignite the NRL player market after dropping on bombshell on the club.
The Wests Tigers will meet next month to discuss their future stadium plan, with the club declaring they have received no confirmation of the rumoured $50m of government and NRL funding that will save Leichhardt Oval.
Discipline is starting to cost the Wests Tigers dearly with two players facing bans after they spent time in the sin bin at Magic Round.
Finally, the 20-minute wait for a beer and a pie will become a thing of the past, with Anthony Albanese and Peter V’landys stepping in with a $50 million deal set to save Leichhardt Oval, writes PHIL ROTHFIELD.
With the NSW selection race blown wide open, Knights star Bradman Best put his hand up for another call up, laying on a clinic for the Knights and signalling his intent to Michael Maguire.
Eagle-eyed NRL fans have been left in hysterics after Tigers forward Alex Twal executed one of the smoothest moves you’ll see on a footy field.
He could have stayed in the golden west to chase more titles, but Sunia Turuva can see something special brewing in Tiger Town.
Exiled Wests Tigers chairman Lee Hagipantelis has terminated a $1 million deal with the club in a scathing letter to the club.
Two Wests Tigers were given their marching orders late on in an ugly finish to the Bulldogs’ NRL victory at Accor Stadium.
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