‘Bittersweet’ moment for Aussie quick pushing for Test spot<\/a><\/p>\nHe has now reportedly been asked to return to the role given the NRL’s concerns over the state the club finds itself in. <\/p>\n
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Benji Marshall of the Tigers poses with Barry O’Farrell after playing his 300th game.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
The Tigers have finished last in three of the last four seasons, and haven’t played finals since 2019.<\/p>\n
The SMH report says O’Farrell is aware of the NRL’s desire for him to return to the role.<\/p>\n
He is yet to confirm whether he will, but is open to heading back through the doors.<\/p>\n
Balmain champion Benny Elias was strongly linked with the role before this potential sudden backflip emerged. <\/p>\n
The report adds that the Wests Tigers will extend the contract of coach Benji Marshall through to the end of 2029.<\/p>\n
The Tigers and Marshall are deep in negotiations, with an extension set to be finalised. <\/p>\n
The goal is to create stability within the struggling organisation. Shaun Mielekamp has been appointed interim chief executive.<\/p>\n
Marshall took over as coach at the start of the 2024 season, and has won 15 of 48 games at the helm.<\/p>\n
He played 257 games for the Tigers across two stints during his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine days after he was sacked as Wests Tigers chairman, Barry O’Farrell is likely to make a shock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-339666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}