Balmain great Tim Brasher has urged Wests Tigers to keep Adam Doueihi in the halves, insistent he is not a NRL fullback.
The Tigers' two-week experiment with Doueihi at No.1 was abandoned on Tuesday, with the playmaker named to partner Luke Brooks at five-eighth against Parramatta and Charlie Staines listed as fullback.
The restructure means the Tigers will have their fourth spine change in as many weeks, with the winless club struggling at the bottom of the ladder.
Brasher spent nine seasons as Balmain's fullback, and also played under current Tigers coach Tim Sheens at North Queensland.
And he is confident the right way for Sheens to arrest the Tigers' slump is with the club's best attacking spark in the halves.
"Doueihi is a fantastic player, as a five-eighth," Brasher told AAP.
"You watch him play at No.6 and straight away he is comfortable. He looks out of his comfort zone at fullback.
"From what I have seen of him at fullback his positional play is not sound. He doesn't seem to be the guy moving his team around.
"You want someone at fullback who enjoys the position, understands it and what the scope of the job is back there."
The Tigers' five losses have thrown the spotlight firmly on the club's decision to appoint Sheens, after he was their head of football last year.
A premiership winner at the club in 2005, Sheens last coached in the NRL in 2012 before two stints in England with Hull KR and Widnes ended prematurely in the Super League.
Sheens will eventually hand over the Tigers job to Benji Marshall in 2025, with Marshall and Robbie Farah already on staff.
But Brasher said it was on the players to respond to Sheens, Marshall and Farah.
"The players need to pull their heads in and have a dig," he said.
"They need to trust in the system. If a coach is coaching you and you have guys that believe and guys that don't believe, it is going to be mayhem.
"If you all believe, even if it isn't the greatest plan, it can work.
"I am thinking there might be a disconnect and some guys going their different ways. It is up to the coaches to bring that together but they are certainly the guys that can do it."
Brasher's comments came as club chairman Lee Hagipantelis defended his CEO Justin Pascoe, amid questions over his future.
"We are not immune to the criticism and we hear it," Hagipantelis told SEN.
"It's at DEFCON 10 at the moment. You can't turn on the radio, TV or pick up the newspaper without seeing our names.
"Some of the criticism is very personal in respect to our CEO and the attacks on him seem to be, in my view, unprofessional.
"(Pascoe) gets criticism for signing certain players but then he doesn't get the credit for signing others."
