Australian professional rugby league coach (born 1950)
Tim Sheens
Personal information
Full name
Timothy Sheens
Born
(1950-10-30) 30 October 1950 (age 73) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height
179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight
99 kg (15 st 8 lb)
Playing information
Position
Prop
Club
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
1970–82
Penrith Panthers
166
11
0
0
33
Coaching information
Club
Years
Team
Gms
W
D
L
W%
1984–87
Penrith Panthers
98
43
4
51
44
1988–96
Canberra Raiders
219
148
3
68
68
1997–01
Nth Qld Cowboys
103
27
4
72
26
2003–12
Wests Tigers
249
122
0
127
49
2017–19
Hull Kingston Rovers
78
44
2
32
56
2020
Widnes Vikings
7
5
0
2
71
2023
Wests Tigers
24
4
0
20
17
Total
778
393
13
372
51
Representative
Years
Team
Gms
W
D
L
W%
1991
NSW City
1
0
0
1
0
1991
New South Wales
3
1
0
2
33
2006–08
NSW City
3
2
1
0
67
2009–15
Australia
31
26
1
4
84
2021
Combined Nations
1
1
0
0
100
Source: [1][2]
As of 1 September 2023
Timothy Sheens (born 30 October 1950) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. Head Coach of the Australia national team between 2009 and 2015, he has also been the head coach of National Rugby League (NRL) clubs, the Penrith Panthers, the Canberra Raiders, the North Queensland Cowboys and the Wests Tigers. As a player, Sheens was a prop forward with Sydney's Penrith club in the 1970s and 1980s before he retired and became their coach.
He then coached the Raiders, taking them to victory in the 1989, 1990 and 1994 premierships. With the Tigers he won the 2005 premiership. Sheens also set a new record for most games in Australian rugby league premiership history (which has since been broken by Wayne Bennett) and also coached the New South Wales Blues for the 1991 State of Origin series. In June 2015 he accepted a role with Super League club the Salford Red Devils to become Director of Rugby leading to his eventual resignation as the coach of the Australian National Team in October later that year. In September 2016[3] it was announced that he would join then Super League club the Hull Kingston Rovers and he formally stepped down from his role at Salford Red Devils as they confronted Hull Kingston Rovers in the £1M Game relegation decider. Salford Red Devils won the game but Sheens confirmed his decision to coach Hull Kingston Rovers in 2017,[4] in the Championship.
It was announced that Sheens would return to the Wests Tigers in 2021 working in pathways, development, and talent identification. Sheens was later announced as the club's coach for the 2023 and 2024 seasons, but he stepped down from the coaching role at the end of 2023.
^Rugby League Project
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^"Hull Kingston Rovers appoint Tim Sheens as head coach | Hull KR". Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
^"New boss Sheens impressed by Rovers fans | Hull KR". Archived from the original on 22 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
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