Wests Tigers make BIZARRE changes after wooden spoon disaster – including telling players they no longer have to carry their bags

The Wests Tigers are reportedly making bizarre changes to the way they operate in 2024, including drinking beer in the sheds after matches and telling players they don’t have to carry their own bags.

The struggling club became the NRL’s running joke, failing to make a finals series in 12 years and losing a number of elite players, including James Tedesco and Josh Addo-Carr, to other clubs, in addition to winning consecutive wood. spoons over the last two seasons.

According to a Nine According to a report Wednesday, Tigers officials held a meeting last week with the goal of “doing things better” next season.

The main takeaways from the meeting will leave long-suffering fans scratching their heads.

One decision means the equipment manager will travel to away football games half a day early, another relieves players of the burden of carrying their bags when traveling to away games.

Tigers stars will also be able to enjoy a post-match beer in the hangars next season (pictured, 2024 head coach Benji Marshall)

Participants in the meeting also decided that players will be able to have beers after matches in the hangars, according to the publication.

Wests are also currently looking for a new head of football, with speculation that former Wallabies coach Michael Cheika will be targeted for the role.

Tigres president Lee Hagipantelis spoke enthusiastically about Cheika, who is currently at the Rugby World Cup in France while coaching Argentina.

“I am told that Cheika has a very good character and people speak very well of him,” Hagipantelis told SEN radio.

“In relation to the Wests Tigers Head of Football role, all candidates are considered on a strictly private and confidential basis.”

It was also reported that the club could rehire former general manager Mark O’Neill, seven years after he left Leichhardt.

Earlier this month, outgoing Tigers coach Tim Sheens snubbed the club’s end-of-season presentation evening where his career was to be celebrated.

The struggling team has failed to qualify for the finals in over a decade and has just won another wooden spoon.

Outgoing manager Tim Sheens has snubbed the club’s end-of-season presentation evening where his career was to be celebrated.

Sheens – who earned the JV an NRL premiership in 2005 – was informed in August his services were not required next year.

Benji Marshall had been parachuted into the top job 12 months earlier, and Sheens was clearly unhappy with the way he was personally treated by club officials.

He came close to the presentation evening at the William Inglis Hotel in Warwick Farm, after a difficult season in which the Tigers “won” another wooden spoon after winning only four games.

Sheen’s next move in rugby league circles remains up in the air.

It is understood he wanted to return to the role of head of football at the Tigers, only for the struggling club to go in another direction.