Coach Michael Maguire’s job is hanging by a thread after Wests Tigers’ woeful season spluttered to a dismal end in a 38-0 loss to the Bulldogs tonight.
Running in seven unanswered tries in Redcliffe, the Bulldogs made the Tigers their punching bag as the wooden-spooners snapped a 10-game losing streak in emphatic fashion.
But the result speaks more to the ongoing issues plaguing the joint-venture club, one that Maguire – despite his plaudits – hasn’t been able to remedy in his three years at Concord.
There’s only so much time fans are willing to afford until they lose faith, and the earliest indications have the death knell already ringing for the premiership-winning coach.
A season review is now underway in Concord after the Tigers again missed out on the finals, finishing 13th with just eight wins to their name.
As part of that review, a decision is expected to be made on Maguire’s tenure at the club.
The 47-year-old still has two years to run on his current deal but calls to replace him have only grown louder following the latest capitulation, with The Australian’s Brent Read reporting a call on the coach could be fast-tracked.
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Outside of the club, fans and pundits alike were at a loss as to how the situation in Tiger town had become so grim.
The Tigers have not qualified for post-season football since 2011, the longest finals drought in NRL history, as a decade of woe crashed to a new low tonight.
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