Tim Sheens
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"Tim Sheens" is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. Head coach of the Australia national rugby league team/Australian national team since 2009, he has also been the head coach of National Rugby League (NRL) clubs, the Penrith Panthers, Canberra Raiders, North Queensland Cowboys and Wests Tigers. As a player, Sheens was a prop forward with Sydney's Penrith club in the 1970s and 80s before he retired and became their coach. He then coached the Raiders, taking them to victory in the 1989 NSWRL premiership/1989, 1990 NSWRL premiership/1990 and 1994 NSWRL season/1994 premierships. With the Tigers he won the 2005 NRL season/2005 premiership. Sheens also set a new record for most games in Australian rugby league premiership history and also coached the New South Wales rugby league team/New South Wales Blues for the 1991 State of Origin series.

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Was last year a fluke? This sort of a game can go a long way to say, well yes it was or no it wasn't so we're preparing seriously for it.

We're going to celebrate this long and hard.

It's early days but I was pleased to hear the reports about Grant and will be interested to see how he goes when they start playing.

We're not sure on how far behind he is. He could miss half the season. That's the worst case scenario.

He'll be considered in the 18-man squad at this stage.

We're not going to put Ryan into any sort of trial or consider him until he's sorted out his future.

We'll wait and see what happens.

But there's a long way to go until September.

Look, I'm not going to buy into it. I'm going to talk to [referees' coach] Robert Finch and I'll leave it there.