Wests Tigers will conduct a complete club review as they seek reasons behind another disappointing NRL campaign.
Tim Sheens admits his coaching future is in doubt following the Tigers meek exit a week before the finals on Saturday night.
Needing a win to keep their slim hopes alive, the Tigers collapsed at their spiritual home Leichhardt Oval, going down 26-6 to second-placed Melbourne.
For the seventh time in the past 10 seasons under Sheens, they won’t feature in the finals.
The veteran mentor admitted it was a season filled with disappointment and declared a heavy review would take place after the grand final at the end of the month.
“We will review everybody’s issues and sit down and have a one-on-one with everyone,” the under-pressure coach said.
“Look at it from staff down, there’ll be a complete club review.
“There will always be speculation about the coach when a season drops away.
“Two weeks ago there wasn’t that issue, two weeks down the track there is.
“That’s out of my control, that’s something for the club to consider.
“If they decide to move me on they’ll move me on. That’s up to the club, not up to me.
“My plans are that we’ve got to work hard to improve what went wrong this year and make sure it doesn’t happen again next season.
“Like any club that misses the eight there will be heavy reviews. You always do that.”
Sheens targeted the controversial golden point loss to Canterbury a fortnight ago as indicative of the club’s up-and-down season.
“Two weeks ago, (if) you beat Canterbury everybody’s saying good season,” he said.
“You’re in the semis. We’ve had our chances. I suppose that’s probably it.
“We’ve had our chances, we’ve made some chances, we’ve played some good football and played some terrible football.”
He also hinted the recruitment and the playing roster would be big factors in the review.
“We’ll have to look hard at (our recruitment) again,” he said.
“Maybe we have to be a little tougher in that area as well.
“… Our depth needs to improve as well.
“We’re going to have to work really hard at that, because we really have trouble when one or two of our key players drop out.”