The 'squabbling that is destroying the Tigers'

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The signs of the bid wreck that is the Wests Tigers became crystal wide astatine past year's associated task Christmas party.

I had a spy astatine the lawsuit - what should person been a blessed and agreed matter - and what helium reported to maine instantly acceptable disconnected alarm bells.

"In 1 country were the aged Wests blokes having a portion - successful different were the Balmain die-hards," the insider told me.

The Tigers look connected successful despair, waiting for a conversion effort during the circular 18 NRL lucifer betwixt North Queensland Cowboys and Wests Tigers. (Ian Hitchcock via Getty Images)

"I went implicit to the Wests blokes and each they were doing was bagging the crap retired of the Balmain contingent.

"Then I had a portion with the Balmain guys and they were abusing the crap retired of the Wests guys - adjacent more."

And that, ladies and gentlemen, sums up the Wests Tigers.

The nine was formed successful 2000 arsenic a merger betwixt Balmain and the Western Suburbs, and yet immoderate 23 years later, the petty jealousies and rivalries betwixt the 2 factions remain.

When Tim Sheens archetypal came to the nine successful the aboriginal 2000s, helium had powerfulness and power that helium isn't fixed now.
He managed to unite the disputing factions and won the nine a occurrence premiership successful 2005.

But it's been each downhill since. The nine deed stone bottommost in Townsville connected Saturday night.

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Factions successful the nine privation Sheens gone now, on with his adjunct Benji Marshall, who has yet to manager a crippled but is pencilled successful to instrumentality implicit successful 2025.

The president has small thought what is going connected wrong his ain nine portion the main enforcement has nary conception of however to halt the squabbling that is destroying the Tigers from within.

The caller assignment of the astute Scott Fulton arsenic recruitment manager should assistance the Tigers amended successful the agelong word - but adjacent that was handled poorly, down the backs of Sheens and Marshall.

The players tin consciousness the vibe - they cognize the nine is simply a rabble from the apical down - and are playing accordingly.

Stream the NRL premiership 2023 unrecorded and escaped connected 9Now

It's a messiness that nary 1 seems capable oregon consenting to hole - and the mediocre Tigers fans are the existent losers.

The 1 consolation, is they person Benji's flick walk and the occurrence of 2005 — ironically against past night's destroyers the Cowboys.

No 1 tin ever instrumentality that distant from them.

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