Tim Sheens

Tim Sheens

Personal information
Full name	Timothy Sheens
Born	(1950-10-30) 30 October 1950 (age 74) 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.