Tim Sheens
Tim Sheens
Tim Sheensis an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. Head coach of the Australian national team since 2009, he has also been the head coach of National Rugby Leagueclubs, the Penrith Panthers, Canberra Raiders, North Queensland Cowboys and Wests Tigers. As a player, Sheens was a prop forward with Sydney's Penrith club in the 1970s and 80s before he retired and became their coach. He then coached the Raiders, taking them to victory in the 1989, 1990...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 October 1950
ball control discipline last looking start talking terms
We're looking for a much better start than we've had the last two weeks. I'm talking about ball control and our discipline in terms of not conceding penalties.
celebrate
We're going to celebrate this long and hard.
consider ryan sort sorted trial until
We're not going to put Ryan into any sort of trial or consider him until he's sorted out his future.
matter sort squad
We've sort of got used to him being in the squad no matter what.
clubs gave interest interested permission talk three
We had indications he had interest from the three clubs, they were the three clubs he was interested in so we gave him permission to talk to them.
behind case far half miss sure worst
We're not sure on how far behind he is. He could miss half the season. That's the worst case scenario.
both club leaving left les manly money playing recall talking
These two players, both have left the club for money. So for them to be talking ... I do recall Les playing for Manly and Tommy leaving for money as well.
days early goes grant hear interested pleased reports start
It's early days but I was pleased to hear the reports about Grant and will be interested to see how he goes when they start playing.
cent determination hundred per
There was no determination it was actually fractured, we weren't a hundred per cent sure.
booing foot happy inside people time
There'll be 25,000 people booing each time we've got a foot inside the 10 or we're doing something they're not happy with.
anyone dig players talk
Anyone can dig up players from years ago to talk about clubs.
best hard injuries last side virtually week won year
The Bulldogs will be hard to beat; they won it the year before us. They had a lot of injuries last year and last week had virtually their best side on the park.
assured coach several talked
I've talked to the coach and he's assured me of several things.
game last preparing seriously sort year yes
Was last year a fluke? This sort of a game can go a long way to say, well yes it was or no it wasn't so we're preparing seriously for it.