How Webster revived NRL’s ‘lost souls’... and inside his ‘crazy’ 18-year journey to the top
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“He was great for me as a coach. I was a young head coach and he didn’t let me get away with stuff, he challenged me.” In 2013, Webster became the Eels under-20s coach but won just seven games and returned to the Wests Tigers the following season and reached the finals. “Those experiences were great and something that I was glad to do, just to work my way up the ladder.”In 2015, Webster earned his first gig as an NRL assistant at Warriors but after two seasons he returned to the Tigers to work under head coach Jason Taylor.
“Ivan thought I could do well there and to be honest I walked into there at a good time, they’d won 17 in a row the year before and got to the grand final,” Webster said.“I was walking into a really good strong club at the time and I felt that obviously I was lucky enough to be there. “I wasn’t interested in being a head coach of any NRL club, I wasn’t looking for any job,” Webster said.
“That made me feel really comfortable and it’s cool when you come to a place and you like Auckland and you like New Zealand, you like the culture here, you know where you’re going.”Usually the first order of business from a new coach is to tear the building down and rebuild the club from the ground up.Instead, the rookie coach rang every player and said he believed in them and assured them there would be minimal changes to the squad.
“I said ‘In 12 months time we’ll see where that takes us’. I think our retention and players that we want to keep at the club is a no-brainer at the moment and the majority of those guys will be here next year.” Alexander said the club needed to rediscover itself after floating between hotels for over two years during Covid.
Webster made all his players, no matter their profile, cut up video of their game to present to the coaches and then assess their own performance. “They can actually come with an opinion and something they think is important. The boys are still really good at it today. We’re in the finals now and that process needs to stay the same.
“I always felt like key indicators for Shauny over his whole career were if he was happy off the field and things were going good, then he was going to play good football,” he said.
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