SEN’s Andrew Voss and Greg Alexander have clashed over Tim Sheens’ absence from the Wests Tigers awards night.
Sheens returned to the Tigers in 2023 as head coach as part of a succession plan with assistant coach Benji Marshall. However, after another difficult season which saw the TIgers claim their second wooden spoon in as many years, Sheens stood down as coach just one year into his two-year tenure.
Sheens was a no-show at Tuesday night’s awards night and whilst Alexander had no issue with his absence, Voss said it was a poor look from the only coach to have delivered the club a premiership.
“I’m a bit sad and I mean that,” Voss said on SEN 1170 Breakfast.
“Tim Sheens was a no-show at the end of season presentation.
“It’s the bookend of your 2023 season.”
“They punted him. They got rid of him,” Alexander responded.
“The job that he had for next year, it was gone. Tim Sheens was my first coach and it was his first coaching gig in the NSWRL.
“He is a decent man and when someone brought it to my attention that he didn’t go, I thought ‘good on him.’
“I know you feel different.”
Voss: “I do because I always feel that you have to be the better man.”
Alexander: “But how much better do you have to be? How many times can you put your head on the block?”
Voss: “If I’m Tim, I would be going.”
Marshall will take over as head coach of the Tigers in the 2024 season and look to end a 12-year finals drought.