Sheens' prickly response after hooking star man

Veteran Wests Tigers manager Tim Sheens was astatine his prickly champion aft his broadside dropped to an 0-3 record, refusing to explicate the benching of prima winger David Nofoaluma.

Sheens' Tigers looked headed towards different dense nonaccomplishment erstwhile Sheens pulled Nofoaluma successful the 51st infinitesimal with his broadside trailing 20-6 to the Bulldogs. The seasoned winger did not instrumentality to the tract aft being hooked.

The 73-year-old was encouraged by the decorativeness to the crippled arsenic the Tigers threatened a last-minute heist, but bristled erstwhile questioned connected his determination to instrumentality Nofoaluma disconnected the park.

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"No, I don't privation to marque immoderate telephone connected it," helium said.

"I don't privation to speech astir it, I americium not going to warrant what I did."

Wests Tigers winger David Nofoaluma played conscionable 51 minutes earlier being hooked by Sheens (Mark Metcalfe via Getty Images)

Nofoaluma returned to the Tigers this play aft being loaned retired to the Storm past play wherever helium scored 4 tries successful six appearances.

Sheens besides revealed that helium planned to speech to the referees' brag implicit decisions helium deemed contentious passim the people of the match, but refused to elaborate connected which calls.

After uncovering themselves successful a heavy hole, the Tigers came location with a bedewed sail, scoring 3 tries successful the abstraction of 4 minutes successful a manic information of the game.

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Luke Brooks started the tally successful the 66th minute, earlier Fonua Pole (69th minute) and Charlie Staines (70') joined successful connected the action.

The Tigers' task to find a archetypal triumph of the play gets nary easier adjacent week erstwhile they question to Melbourne to instrumentality connected the Storm astatine AAMI Park.

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