Benji Marshall’s sudden departure from the Wests Tigers has torn the scab off a wound that has been festering at the club for the last two seasons under coach Michael Maguire | MichaelChammas
The Tigers on Tuesday officially brought down the curtain on Marshall’s second coming at the club, announcing the 35-year-old would play his final game for them at the end of this season despite his wish to continue for another year.
A ploy that was designed to put the players on notice left some of them walking on egg shells ever since – and now the Tigers find themselves in an all-too-familiar situation, with players blaming the coach and the coach questioning his players on the back of another disappointing season. Luke Brooks, who Maguire encouraged the club to re-sign until 2023 when he arrived at Concord, is a shadow of the player that wore the No.7 jersey under Cleary.
The club has gone backwards since, but it can’t and won’t add Maguire to its long list of sacked coaches any time soon. If anything, it will extend his tenure beyond 2021. But the rumblings of discontent have left the coach second-guessing himself and prompted Monday’s honesty session, at which issues of trust and communication were raised.
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