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And warning those who are unwilling to buy into it or unable to live up to the standards set in place that the Tigers are more than happy to let them walk out the door and find a new home elsewhere.<\/p>\n
This comes as the club faced a ton of controversy last season on and off the field, headlined by the mid-season departures of Lachlan Galvin and Tallyn Da Silva.<\/p>\n
\u201cWelcome back, 2026 Wests Tigers. You should be excited. I\u2019ve noticed a lot of nerves in the room,\u201d Marshall said in a pre-season address that the club uploaded on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember my first pre-season, it\u2019s pretty stressful but even though it\u2019s going to be hard who gives a f***.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s just embrace it, be positive about it, upbeat because for some of you on train-and-trial (contracts), it is an opportunity that you might not get longer than six weeks, so you\u2019ve got to make the most of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other thing I\u2019ve learned about pre-season is that you\u2019ll never get this time back and if you have a great pre-season it sets you up for a good season.\u201d<\/p>\n
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With a wave of young talent coming through the ranks such as Heamasi Makasini and Jared Haywood, Marshall challenged the players to consider how far they are willing to go in the pursuit of success.<\/p>\n
In a squad of 36, only 19 will be selected each week in the game-day squad and 17 will be used on the field, meaning competition for spots will be fierce.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you haven\u2019t made your debut yet or if you have, everyone wants to win a comp,\u201d Marshall added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe question is, if I said to you tomorrow that you\u2019re guaranteed to win the comp or if you haven\u2019t played first-grade yet, if you\u2019re guaranteed to make your debut, what are you prepared to do for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you ask me that question, I\u2019d f****** do whatever it takes. Anything! You name it, I\u2019d do it because everyone said they\u2019re prepared to do things, but that\u2019s just talk.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are your actions going to be that match it because I\u2019ve seen a lot of talk over the years, playing (and) coaching. Everyone says it, prove it, make the most of it because it doesn\u2019t come around every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wests Tigers haven\u2019t had much success in recent seasons.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Continuing to address the playing group, the recently extended coach doubled down on the importance of standards and professionalism.<\/p>\n
And if members of the side were unable to reach these, they would find themselves on the lookout for a new club, effective immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re big on standards and if you don\u2019t make your f****** times consistently and you can\u2019t perform and you\u2019re not professional, you\u2019ll be out of here,\u201d Marshall continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s happened, trust me. We\u2019ve been through this s***. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not doing that anymore (because) at the Wests Tigers we f***** now stand for something and if you\u2019re not prepared to follow what we stand for, guess what, there\u2019s the f****** door.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benji Marshall has delivered a blunt message to the Wests Tigers playing group ahead of the new season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-529607","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\/529607","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=529607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}