Welcome to the Jungle, Jarome Luai, our special guest on this week’s summer series edition of Behind The Roar.
Wests Tigers' marquee signing covers plenty of ground on the club’s official podcast, telling us how much he’s looking forward to the challenges ahead.
Jarome reveals his first taste of the NRL was watching the 2005 Grand Final from a caravan park on the Central Coast, and how from that moment on, he became a Wests Tigers and Benji Marshall fan.
‘Romey’ also tells BTR how important Benji was in his decision to join Wests Tigers, as was his good mate, Api Koroisau.
All that and more on this special edition of BTR
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On this special edition of Behind The Roar we speak to Wests Tigers CEO Shane Richardson. Richo give's us some insight into the strategy behind this years draw requests. He also announces a big re-signing at the club.
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64. Football Review | Matthew Betsey | Behind The Roar
On the final episode of the 2024 season, we speak to Head Of Football Matthew Betsey.
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CEO Update | Shane Richardson | Behind The Roar
In a special edition of Behind The Roar, Wests Tigers CEO Shane Richardson sets the record straight about some key issues at the club ahead of Friday’s sold-out match against the Eels at Campbelltown.
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63. Wayne Pearce | The First Coach | Official Wests Tigers Podcast
On this week’s episode of BTR, as we celebrate Wests Tigers 25th season in the NRL, we chat to the team’s very first coach and Balmain Tigers legend, Wayne Pearce.
Junior’ covers plenty of ground as our NRL and NRLW teams prepare for big games at Leichhardt Oval over the next few days.
We chat about his days as a 14-year-old selling hotdogs on the very same hill that would eventually be named in his honour.
He talks about his time as the inaugural coach of the joint-venture club, revealing how a call from his 7-year-old daughter was the catalyst for his decision to call it quits after that first season.
He also reflects on the early days, outlining some of the struggles and the benefits of the joint-venture club, and of course that very first game against a star-studded Broncos team.
A fitness fanatic, Pearce tells us how and why he was a pioneer in that space. It was a handful of events, including the death of his father, and contracting Hepatitis B from the ‘magic sponge’, that prompted Junior to complete a science degree and search for a healthier way of life.
He recounts the ‘secret meeting’ he had with the late, great Jack Gibson in the early 80s, when Jack was trying to lure Pearce from Leichhardt to Parramatta.
We chat about club legends including Benny Elias, the late Keith Barnes, and Benji Marshall, and about the disappointment of losing the ’89 Grand Final.
Pearce also talks about the resilience and loyalty of Tigers’ fans; confident the club has put the building blocks in place to ‘turn the Titanic around’.
All that and more on this week’s episode of Behind the Roar.
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