Tigers to reveal all ’in days’

TIGERS chair Lee Hagipantelis has revealed coach Michael Maguire will learn his fate within “days”.

The timeline of the embattled joint-venture’s all-encompassing review of the football department is underway with Hagipantelis refusing to sugar coat the fact the football team has gone “backwards” over the past three seasons.

The Tigers are in the midst of a club-defining review of their season having missed the finals in 2021 - an embarrassing drought of finishing outside the top-eight that dates back to 2011.

Maguire has two years remaining on his contract, but Hagipantelis stopped short of guaranteeing the head coach’s future.

Hagipantelis told SEN radio host Andrew Voss the Tigers board were cognisant of completing the review in order to make major decisions well in advance of next season.

Asked by Voss when the review would be completed, Hagipantelis said; “It’s a matter of days (away).

“I would be hopeful that at the end of next week the review would be complete and the board would be in a position to consider what, if any, changes need to be made for next year.

“It’s been suggested that the review is centred on one person and one person only - and that’s not the purpose of the review.

“It’s the same review the club undertook last year and undertook the year before and I suspect it’s the same review being undertaken by seven other clubs (that missed the top-eight) as well.

“The purpose of the review is to consider what the club did well and those things we did not do well and how we can improve.

“It would be remiss of us as an organisation not to look at the year holistically.

Because this year we finished 13th, last year 11th and the year before that 9th.

“So on that objective benchmarking alone, we haven’t improved - in fact, we’ve gone backwards.’’