Former World Cup-winning Kangaroos mentor and four-time premiership winner Tim Sheens will return to coaching with the Combined Nations All Stars team to face England in June.
Sheens will take charge of the team of international players in Super League, which is expected to include Greg Inglis, along with fellow Australians James Maloney, Josh Reynolds, Joel Thompson and Bevan French.
New Zealand’s Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Tonga’s Konrad Hurrell and Manu Ma’u, Fiji’s Kevin Naiqama and Korbin Sims, Lachlan Coote (Scotland) and Regan Grace (Wales) are also likely to be considered.
Sheens, who took Canberra to premierships in 1989, 1990 and 1994 and Wests Tigers to their only grand final triumph in 2005, has been coaching in England since departing the Australian job in 2015.
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IN the world of rugby league it was a year like no other – with the sport not immune from the dark cloud of Covid hanging over 2020. So maybe it was only fitting, then, that the season would end like no other with Jack Welsby’s after the bell touchdown securing back-to-back Super League titles for Saints. But what a tumultuous year for the sport. A four-month hiatus, players being furloughed, games being behind closed doors on neutral venues, a raft of rule changes and a table settled on percentages all contributed to a season that threw challenges at the players and coaching staff every week.