Benji lifts lid on Tiger Town [Video]

Never a dull day in Tiger Town, even the good ones.

On Thursday, the Tigers pulled out all the stops, their entire playing squad, staff marshalling proceedings wearing headsets and a slew of 2005 premiership-winners to announce the biggest sponsorship in club history.

A multimillion-dollar front-of-jersey deal with Pepper Money came with a song and dance at the Tigers’ Centre of Excellence, and an extensive media turnout for coach Benji Marshall and chief executive Shane Richardson holding court.

Even with a club staffer attempting to steer questioning back towards the sponsorship deal at one point, talk of John Bateman’s impending exit, Terrell May’s looming arrival and training standards at the club were the real order of the day.

At times Marshall was terse, at others expansive, while Richardson was bullishly positive throughout.

As the rugby league news …