Tim Sheens

Tim Sheens

Personal information
Nickname	Shifty
Born	(1950-10-30) 30 October 1950 (age 66) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height	178.5 cm (5 ft 10.25 in)
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 North Queensland Cowboys 103 27 4 72 26 2003–12 Wests Tigers 249 122 0 127 49 2016– Hull Kingston Rovers 5 5 0 0 100 Total 674 345 11 318 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
Source: Rugby League Project

Tim Sheens (born 30 October 1950) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. Head coach of the 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, 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 and also coached the New South Wales Blues for the 1991 State of Origin series. In June 2015 he accepted a role with English Super League club 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 it was announced that he would join then Super League club Hull Kingston Rovers and he formally stepped down from his role at Salford as they confronted Hull KR in the relegation decider. Salford won that game but Sheens confirmed his decision to coach Hull KR in 2017 in the Championship.

Born to a well known rugby league family of the Penrith area, Tim Sheens was educated at St Dominic's College in Penrith but spent his last two years of school at St Gregory's College, Campbelltown, where he was the school captain and first-grade rugby league captain in 1968.