Tigers secretly contact axed coach as Plan B emerges

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The Tigers' internal conflict has taken a caller twist the nine showing involvement successful sacked Titans manager Justin Holbrook through a 3rd party.

With the nine astatine the ft of the NRL ladder and coaches Tim Sheens and Benji Marshall astatine likelihood with management, the Tigers are a nine precise overmuch successful crisis.

The involvement successful Holbrook is three-fold - helium could adhd acquisition and cognition arsenic an adjunct coach, helium could measurement successful if the narration betwixt Sheens, Marshall and the committee becomes untenable… and helium is simply a mode of signing Titans prima Tino Fa'asuamaleaui.

Former Gold Coast Titans manager Justin Holbrook. (Getty)

The Maroons superstar is adjacent to Holbrook - truthful overmuch truthful that helium had a clause inserted into his existent declaration that if Holbrook left, Tino is escaped to locomotion arsenic well.

The large guardant is present assessing his options, with respective clubs too the Tigers keen connected his services.

David Fifita is successful the aforesaid concern but some volition hold until aboriginal successful the twelvemonth earlier making immoderate determination connected their futures.

JETS WAITING IN THE WINGS

Newtown's bid to beryllium re-instated to the large league via Perth aft 40 years has gone quiescent - but is inactive bubbling distant successful the background.

Jets officials cognize that their preferred enactment - coming backmost arsenic their aged selves astatine Henson Park - is not realistic successful the existent climate.

But they are keeping a adjacent oculus connected developments of the Perth bid to go the NRL's 18th franchise.

"We are keeping our pulverization dry," Jets president Barry Cotter told Wide World of Sports.

"We privation to spot precisely who we are dealing with implicit determination and don't privation to springiness up the Newtown marque which is truthful iconic.

"A instrumentality via Perth - with a fewer games backmost astatine Henson - would beryllium a large effect for our galore fans."

HOW WARRIORS SIGNED SURPRISE PACKET

Speedy five-eighth Luke Metcalf is proving 1 of the buys of the twelvemonth for the Warriors - but it is astir the signing that ne'er was.

Metcalf, who bagged 2 tries successful the 46-10 triumph implicit the Eels past play and looked precise sharp, wanted to enactment astatine the Sharks to beryllium adjacent to his household and friends.

A specified $200,000 would person kept him astatine Cronulla but the nine decided to amusement religion successful seasoned pivot Matt Moylan, who is nearing the extremity of his career.

Metcalf is proving a large foil for Shaun Johnson arsenic the Warriors ramp up their bid to confound the critics by making the finals.

CLEVER CLAUSE FOR RAIDERS

Some Raiders fans weren't blessed erstwhile the nine released promising halfback Brad Schneider to English Super League Club Hull KR past week.

But each is not lost, Raiders supporters.

I'm proceeding that if the Raiders endure an wounded successful the halves successful the adjacent mates of months, determination is an statement that Schneider tin travel backmost to the nine for the finals.

The 22-year-old, who has played planetary shot for Germany, has played a twelve apical people games for Canberra since making his debut successful 2021 and looks the goods.

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