After the wooden spoon mishap, Wests Tigers implement BIZAARRE modifications, including reminding players they are no longer need to carry their luggage.
According to reports, the Wests Tigers have made some peculiar adjustments to how they will conduct business in 2024, including serving beer to players after games and asking them not to carry their own luggage.
Tigers executives reportedly met last week with the goal of “doing things better” in the upcoming campaign, according to a Nine report on Wednesday.
The main outcomes from the meeting will leave long-suffering fans scratching their heads.
One decision means the gear steward will travel to away footy games half a day early, another relives players of the burden of carrying their bags on trips to away games.
The meeting’s attendants also determined that players will be permitted to drink beer in the sheds following games, according to the publication.
A new head of football is also needed at Wests, and there have been rumors that former Wallabies coach Michael Cheika is a candidate.
Cheika, who is presently coaching Argentina at the Rugby Union World Cup in France, was praised by Tigers chairman Lee Hagipantelis.
Hagipantelis told SEN Radio, “I am told that Cheika is of very good character and people speak very highly of him.”
All applicants and candidates are being evaluated on a totally private and confidential basis for the Wests Tigers head of football position.
Seven years after leaving Leichhardt, there have also been rumors that the club would re-hire former general manager Mark O’Neill.
Tim Sheens, the Tigers coach who was about to leave his position, skipped the team’s end-of-season presentation earlier this month.
Sheens, who is remembered for helping the joint venture win the NRL championship in 2005, was informed in August that his services would not be needed the following year.
Sheens was obviously not pleased with the way he was treated personally by club officials when Benji Marshall was parachuted into the top position a year early.
After a challenging season in which the Tigers ‘earned’ another wooden spoon after only winning four games, he blew off the presentation night at the William Inglis Hotel in Warwick Farm.
In rugby league circles, it’s unclear what Sheen will do next.
He was reportedly eager to return to the Tigers as head of football, but the failing team decided to go in a different way.