Canberra Raiders News

Adam Doueihi meets Wests Tigers officials to resolve differences after leaving training and ruling out Saturday's game against the Raiders.

The Australian

Adam Doueihi will meet with Wests Tigers coach Benji Marshall and CEO Shaun Mielekamp within the next 72-hours to thrash out their differences.

The meeting, expected by Monday afternoon at the latest, aims to bring all parties back onto the same page after Doueihi dramatically left training on Thursday and ruled himself out of the club's game against the Raiders in Canberra on Saturday.

At this stage, neither the club wants to tear up Doueihi's contract, nor has the 172-game player informed his management to seek a release from his contract, which runs through until 2029.

Both Marshall and Doueihi respect each other greatly and there is a genuine appetite to smoke the peace pipe and move forward for the benefit of the club.

The reason for Doueihi's dramatic stance to stand down from playing is believed to be not solely due to Marshall deciding to shift the playmaker to the unfamiliar lock-forward position against the Raiders.

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Brett Kimmorley revealed Adam Doueihi pressured him about his position, leading to a conflict with Benji Marshall over game roles.

The Australian

Former Wests Tigers coach Brett Kimmorley says Adam Doueihi made a positional ultimatum during his brief stint as the club's interim NRL head coach where Kimmorley "did not have the balls" to drop one of his star players.

The revelation comes after Doueihi sensationally withdrew from the Tigers' team to play the Raiders in Canberra following a heated argument with coach Benji Marshall, who told the playmaker he would play lock, preferring the departing Jarome Luai and rookie Javon Andrews in the halves.

Kimmorley only had 12 games in charge of the Tigers in 2022 after Michael Maguire was sacked mid-year.

He had a conversation with Doueihi about his starting spot.

"In my time as an interim head coach at the Wests Tigers, as a very green interim head coach, Adam was coming back from an ACL," Kimmorley said on SEN League.

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