Happily held to account

ADAM Doueihi wants to stay as the six shooter at the wild Wests Tigers and has opened up about how he responded to coach Michael Maguire’s call for “accountable men” to stand up for the battling club.

Doueihi (pictured) turned in a masterclass in the 42-24 comeback win over the Broncos, with five try assists in his first starting game at fiveeighth since Round 9 to get the club back in the finals hunt.

The 22-year-old was emphatic when asked whether he wanted to stay there for the rest of the year.

“I do, and as long as we keep winning I guess ‘Madge’ will keep me there,” Doueihi said.

“I am obviously pleased. We haven’t been getting the results we wanted lately, so Madge wanted to make some changes and luckily kil for me I am back in the six jersey. It is . . . my preferred position.”

Maguire said after the “garbage” loss to the Rabbitohs in Round 17 he was looking for some “accountable men”.

After the win, where the Tigers scored 32 points in the second half, the coach said he had found his “men”.

Doueihi certainly took accountability with a man-ofthe-match performance and said he wanted to do Maguire proud in a likely two-month stint in Queensland that he called a “second chance” for the club to make up for lost ground. He said he took no offence at Maguire’s now infamous call for accountable men.

“We feel for him. We all feel that we have let him down and the organisation down,” the player said. “It has been a disappointing season so far, but we really see this as a second opportunity. Madge sees it as a second opportunity for us up here to come up here and bunker down, stay tight as a group and see what this eight weeks brings.”

The Tigers feature on Fox League this week in a four-part documentary called Wild Wests: Tales from Tiger Town from Monday night.

Doueihi grinned and said the tales would be “very wild” and a great window into the club’s operations.