{"id":179761,"date":"2025-12-12T06:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179761\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:32:07","slug":"fresh-benji-marshall-twist-adds-to-wests-tigers-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179761\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Benji Marshall twist adds to Wests Tigers drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wests Tigers have extended Benji Marshall’s contract until the end of 2030, with the embattled club throwing an incredible level of support behind the coach.<\/p>\n

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Already contracted until the end of 2027, the Tigers on Friday announced a new deal that will keep the club legend at the helm for the next five seasons.<\/p>\n

It came on another busy day in Tiger town, with Shaun Mielekamp appointed interim CEO following Shane Richardson’s dramatic exit.<\/p>\n

In the space of 11 days the Tigers have now sacked more than half their board, had their CEO resign, invited the board members back and extended Marshall as coach.<\/p>\n

Wests Tigers head coach Benji Marshall.\u00a0Mark Metcalfe\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Marshall’s new contract is no doubt aimed at providing some stability at the club, with it in the works before the directors were invited back on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Tigers officials will hope it helps them keep both Jarome Luai and Jahream Bula, with the star duo able to look elsewhere for 2027 and beyond.<\/p>\n

But it is also an incredible show of faith in the 40-year-old from the joint-venture.<\/p>\n

Marshall has taken the Tigers to 17th and 13 in his two seasons in charge of the side, albeit while showing serious signs of improvement in 2025.<\/p>\n

Across all 17 NRL clubs, only Cameron Ciraldo now has a longer coaching deal than Marshall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wests Tigers have extended Benji Marshall’s contract until the end of 2030, with the embattled club throwing an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-179761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}