Adam Doueihi is expected to resume training with Wests Tigers on Tuesday after the playmaker underwent crisis talks with coach Benji Marshall and club officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Tigers enter round 22 in 16th place on the ladder, despite sitting third earlier in the year and most recently suffering a 46-point loss to Canberra with their season on the line.<\/p>\n
Marshall conceded the Tigers had work to do to improve their standards, but denied the club had a culture problem that contributed to their on-field struggles.<\/p>\n
“I don’t feel like there’s a culture problem,” he said.<\/p>\n
“[But] if we’re talking about standards and that, there’s probably a few things we might’ve walked past recently that we need to address.”<\/p>\n
Marshall refuted media reports of a culture of vaping during gym sessions.<\/p>\n
“I can tell you now that no-one’s vaping in the gym. That’s actually fabricated or misinformation,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Is there a vaping problem? Probably, with players, but with young men, you can’t tell them whether they vape or smoke.<\/p>\n
“I definitely can’t control what they do 24\/7. I’m not with them all the time.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a remorseful Doueihi admits he can be “stubborn” and “a hard player to deal with”, but insists he is committed to Wests Tigers following his highly publicised dummy spit.<\/p>\n
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Adam Doueihi cast the Tigers into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.\u00a0 (Getty Images: Brett Hemmings)<\/p>\n
Doueihi conceded he should “definitely” have played the Tigers’ must-win game against the Raiders last Saturday, rather than walk out after Marshall’s decision to move him from halfback.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old said “miscommunication” had led to friction between he and Marshall, who had hoped to play him at lock against the Raiders.<\/p>\n
“Benj knows I’d play front row for him. I never put myself above the team,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Was there a bit of communication breakdown there, and did I take it the wrong way? Yeah, and I’m happy to wear that.”<\/p>\n
The star utility was visibly emotional fronting a media scrum at Tigers headquarters on Wednesday, two days after crisis talks brought him back into the fold.<\/p>\n
Doueihi said there were multiple factors that had led him to “lose [his] head” last week, including conversations with Marshall, the 16th-placed Tigers’ disappointing season and a disruptive week that included a visit to the NRL judiciary.<\/p>\n
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The Tigers’ season has fallen apart in recent weeks.\u00a0 (Getty Images: Mark Nolan)<\/p>\n
Those factors notwithstanding, Doueihi conceded he was to blame for bringing yet another off-field drama upon the sputtering joint venture.<\/p>\n
“I know that at times, I can be a hard player to deal with,” Doueihi said.<\/p>\n
“I just put this stubborn head on that I have at times, and put this ego on that I have at times and just couldn’t get myself in the right headspace to play. That’s the reality of it.<\/p>\n
“When you’re fighting so hard and you have a big week and you go to the judiciary and you’re not used to it, and you’re losing, and you just want to see this club winning, add a bit of miscommunication, which I mentioned, to Benj.<\/p>\n
“I’m an over-thinker and I love being well-prepared for stuff. You add that all together, and it just got the better of me last week.”<\/p>\n
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