The Tigers are set to advertise former membership legend and present assistant coach Benji Marshall into their head teaching function in 2024, a yr sooner than anticipated.
Earmarked to take over Tim Sheens from the 2025 season, the Tigers will as a substitute place extra obligations on Marshall’s shoulders sooner, as per the SMH.
The Tigers have been whacked by the Cowboys 74-0 in Townsville on Saturday, with that end result forcing membership officers to fast-track the succession plan.
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Sheens remains to be anticipated to maintain the pinnacle coach title, however there’s little doubt that Marshall will assume all the key obligations when pre-season begins on the finish of this yr.
Marshall is within the first yr of what was initially slated to be a two-year apprenticeship with Sheens.
He has no head teaching expertise or teaching expertise for that matter at another membership.
Marshall needed to put hypothesis to mattress final week that he was leaving the Tigers resulting from a rumoured rift with the crew’s new head of recruitment Scott Fulton.
“I love my job as an assistant coach and I’m looking forward to learning more off Tim this year and in 2024 and excited to become the head coach in 2025 and I’m not walking out anywhere,” Marshall advised The Daily Telegraph final week.
Source: www.foxsports.com.au