SAD NEWS: Three key and prominent Tigers players have been ruled out for five months due to injuries.

The Wests Tigers five-eighth sustained the injury late in the second half of his team’s Easter Monday loss to Parramatta Eels.

Doueihi has ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee twice before, in 2018 when at South Sydney and in 2021 in his second year at Wests Tigers.

Brent Naden was also forced from the field on Easter Monday after injuring his shoulder when scoring a try in the 64th minute.

Naden has suffered a grade-three AC joint injury and is expected to be out for 2-4 weeks.

Further information will be provided in the coming days on Doueihi’s injury, and the status of other players in the squad who are facing time on the sidelines.

Tigers in turmoil: Civil war could see chair overthrown, place $1m deal in jeopardy

The Wests Tigers are facing more off-field turmoil with chair Lee Hagipantelis reportedly on the brink of being overthrown.

The SMH reports the club’s majority shareholder, the Holman Barnes Group, invited Hagipantelis to stand down from his role just days after being reappointed but it was rejected.

Board member Tony Andreacchio, speaking on their behalf, invited Hagipantelis to quit and said he had only been extended as independent director – not as chairman, which had been reported occurred until November 2025.

However Hagipantelis has strongly rejected this suggestion he was not extended in both roles.

Now Tigers higher-ups are considering bringing in former NSW premier and ex-Tigers chairman Barry O’Farrell, plus former Australian Olympic Committee John Coates, onto the board.

It comes as an external governance and culture review will examine the roles of Hagipantelis and CEO Justin Pascoe.

Hagipantelis’ exit could place the club’s near-$1 million a year sponsorship deal with his company Bryden’s Lawyers under threat.

“At the moment we have an external review on the whole club,” Andreacchio said.

“It’s probably an inappropriate time to make any formal or informal comment at the moment. This review is very critical.

“The Holman Barnes Group is one of the major shareholders and are very much behind it. I think any comment doesn’t serve any purpose at the moment. Currently he is the chairman.”