Snidest 0
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Ever heard of an "independent review"??
WT Ownership, The Board & Senior Management - MEGA Thread
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The Fresh Oil
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His ego won’t allow that. He is loosing so much face in all of this.
My guess
“brandy, I can’t talk too much about the changes because my team are looking into the legal ramifications. What I can say is I was 100% dedicated to my role and I am thoroughly disappointed by how things transpired. We will lodge a formal complaint to the NRL, NBL and the AFL. I will not rest until I have the answers to questions I haven’t asked yet”
Mistymuzzle
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I think you are on the money here MM. I have heard that Luai and AFB both had Dennis Burgess clauses in their prospective Contracts and now all bets are off.
Jerome Luai was reported to have said to a third party who will remain anonymous....."I wanted to sign with a West Tigers Board who had proven their reliability and acceptable standards over 25 years. You knew where you stood with these guys and you knew what kind of results were expected, now where am I? I have to rethink things. I signed because of Dennis Burgess and Jason Pascoe and now I get this Richardson guy?
Mistymuzzle
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Incorrect. Steps have been taken. In fact you could say that some people expected this on the 12/12.
innsaneink
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Hes already spat the dummy
The Fresh Oil
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Mistymuzzle
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Lee will have plenty of friends in the NRL media. Brydens sponsor heaps of stuff in RL and pay for a LOT of lunches. Journalists will be jumping on the Lee gravy train. He will find many sympathetic ears.
Magpie_Magic
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25 years.
Numerous board members and different structures during that time.
See SMH article.
This could impact current negotiations.
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(from www.smh.com.au)
Wests Tigers chairman Lee Hagipantelis drove his black Ferrari into the club’s Concord headquarters on Tuesday morning unaware of the events that were about to unfold over the next few hours.
Together with chief executive Justin Pascoe, the two faces of the Wests Tigers front office hosted 65 of the club’s corporate partners at a luncheon which doubled as an opportunity for the club’s key stakeholders to oversee the team’s training session, run by Tigers legend Benji Marshall.
At that point, the biggest issue on Pascoe’s plate would have been David Nofoaluma’s late showing to training. Two hours later, both he and Hagipantelis were gone.
There was an eerie similarity to the drama that surrounded the departure 18 months ago of former coach Michael Maguire, who was marched out of the club’s facility just hours after presiding over a training session that morning.
Once the executioners, on Tuesday Hagipantelis and Pascoe became the executed.
“I feel there has been gross disrespect shown to the Wests Tigers and to myself personally by my fellow directors,” Hagipantelis told the Herald on Tuesday night.
“We were never paid the respect of being involved or consulted as to the review. Even to this day we have never been engaged or informed as to the results of the review or the recommendations.
“Now it appears unlikely that we will ever see the report. I think the process was disgraceful …”
When Hagipantelis returned to Bryden’s Lawyers head office in Liverpool after the Tigers corporate luncheon, he received a phone call from Balmain director Danny Stapleton and Wests Ashfield director Tony Andreacchio.
It was relayed to him that at a meeting the night before, the club’s shareholders had agreed to the recommendations put forward in an independent review into the club’s governance carried out by former NRL chief financial officer Tony Crawford and businessman Gary Barnier. The board was dismissed. Hagipantelis, whose firm sponsors the Tigers to the tune of $1 million a season, was gone.
The news of the upheaval at the club has startled rookie coach Marshall, who has deals worth over $1.1 million a season on the table to Jarome Luai and Addin Fonua-Blake, two of the NRL’s highest-profile free agents.
Those close to Marshall, who requested anonymity in order to speak freely, have told the Herald that he has raised concerns about the predicament of the club, with Hagipantelis also confirming that he had spoken to Marshall following his removal from the board.
“They have in my view created great harm to that club, and in particular that football department, and even more particular, Benji,” Hagipantelis said.
“They have removed from Benji his support system which primarily involved Justin. They have worked together extraordinarily hard for months to put together a football department, coaching structure and roster that will turn things around for the club.
“I know they’ve been working together really hard on some recruitment deals involving some very high-profile players. There’s no doubt this would jeopardise that.
“It would be completely ignorant for anyone to suggest that the major disruption to the organisational structure of the club will not impact on recruitment and retention. I have already been inundated by calls from player managers expressing grave concern with what has occurred.”
By the time Hagipantelis got off the phone to Stapleton and Andreacchio, an email had been sent to shareholders informing the club’s key figures that Pascoe had resigned.
The CEO, unbeknown to many of his staff members working at the $70m centre of excellence that will be the legacy of his much-maligned tenure, quietly made his way out the exit doors for the last time.
Pascoe’s successor, former South Sydney CEO Shane Richardson, was already lined up to take over his position and was preparing to front the media on Wednesday.
Crawford, who developed a close relationship with Richardson from their time working together at the NRL, recommended Richardson as the interim chief executive for the next six months.
A recommendation was also made to appoint former Wests Tigers chairman Barry O’Farrell as Hagipantelis’ replacement on a new four-man board for the next six months.
The same figures at Balmain who had privately expressed their dismay with the club’s major shareholder, the Holman Barnes Group, over their conduct in embarking on the review had now backed the recommendations that were being presented to them.
The HBG members on the Wests Tigers board were willing to remove themselves and needed the support of the Balmain and Western Suburbs sides of the joint venture to follow through on the recommendations.
That support was given on Monday night with Stapleton retaining his position on a new-look board as the elected Balmain-appointed director.
All of the above is mere detail to many of the Tigers fans now rejoicing in the departure of the board that has overseen one of the most tumultuous periods in NRL history.
For months, even years, the fans have pleaded with banners, protests and petitions begging for the club’s key figures to stop what they branded the “Pascoe Fiasco”. On Tuesday, they got their wish, and then some.
Wests Tigers chairman Lee Hagipantelis drove his black Ferrari into the club’s Concord headquarters on Tuesday morning unaware of the events that were about to unfold over the next few hours.
Together with chief executive Justin Pascoe, the two faces of the Wests Tigers front office hosted 65 of the club’s corporate partners at a luncheon which doubled as an opportunity for the club’s key stakeholders to oversee the team’s training session, run by Tigers legend Benji Marshall.
At that point, the biggest issue on Pascoe’s plate would have been David Nofoaluma’s late showing to training. Two hours later, both he and Hagipantelis were gone.
There was an eerie similarity to the drama that surrounded the departure 18 months ago of former coach Michael Maguire, who was marched out of the club’s facility just hours after presiding over a training session that morning.
Once the executioners, on Tuesday Hagipantelis and Pascoe became the executed.
“I feel there has been gross disrespect shown to the Wests Tigers and to myself personally by my fellow directors,” Hagipantelis told the Herald on Tuesday night.
“We were never paid the respect of being involved or consulted as to the review. Even to this day we have never been engaged or informed as to the results of the review or the recommendations.
“Now it appears unlikely that we will ever see the report. I think the process was disgraceful …”
When Hagipantelis returned to Bryden’s Lawyers head office in Liverpool after the Tigers corporate luncheon, he received a phone call from Balmain director Danny Stapleton and Wests Ashfield director Tony Andreacchio.
It was relayed to him that at a meeting the night before, the club’s shareholders had agreed to the recommendations put forward in an independent review into the club’s governance carried out by former NRL chief financial officer Tony Crawford and businessman Gary Barnier. The board was dismissed. Hagipantelis, whose firm sponsors the Tigers to the tune of $1 million a season, was gone.
The news of the upheaval at the club has startled rookie coach Marshall, who has deals worth over $1.1 million a season on the table to Jarome Luai and Addin Fonua-Blake, two of the NRL’s highest-profile free agents.
Those close to Marshall, who requested anonymity in order to speak freely, have told the Herald that he has raised concerns about the predicament of the club, with Hagipantelis also confirming that he had spoken to Marshall following his removal from the board.
“They have in my view created great harm to that club, and in particular that football department, and even more particular, Benji,” Hagipantelis said.
“They have removed from Benji his support system which primarily involved Justin. They have worked together extraordinarily hard for months to put together a football department, coaching structure and roster that will turn things around for the club.
“I know they’ve been working together really hard on some recruitment deals involving some very high-profile players. There’s no doubt this would jeopardise that.
“It would be completely ignorant for anyone to suggest that the major disruption to the organisational structure of the club will not impact on recruitment and retention. I have already been inundated by calls from player managers expressing grave concern with what has occurred.”
By the time Hagipantelis got off the phone to Stapleton and Andreacchio, an email had been sent to shareholders informing the club’s key figures that Pascoe had resigned.
The CEO, unbeknown to many of his staff members working at the $70m centre of excellence that will be the legacy of his much-maligned tenure, quietly made his way out the exit doors for the last time.
Pascoe’s successor, former South Sydney CEO Shane Richardson, was already lined up to take over his position and was preparing to front the media on Wednesday.
Crawford, who developed a close relationship with Richardson from their time working together at the NRL, recommended Richardson as the interim chief executive for the next six months.
A recommendation was also made to appoint former Wests Tigers chairman Barry O’Farrell as Hagipantelis’ replacement on a new four-man board for the next six months.
The same figures at Balmain who had privately expressed their dismay with the club’s major shareholder, the Holman Barnes Group, over their conduct in embarking on the review had now backed the recommendations that were being presented to them.
The HBG members on the Wests Tigers board were willing to remove themselves and needed the support of the Balmain and Western Suburbs sides of the joint venture to follow through on the recommendations.
That support was given on Monday night with Stapleton retaining his position on a new-look board as the elected Balmain-appointed director.
All of the above is mere detail to many of the Tigers fans now rejoicing in the departure of the board that has overseen one of the most tumultuous periods in NRL history.
For months, even years, the fans have pleaded with banners, protests and petitions begging for the club’s key figures to stop what they branded the “Pascoe Fiasco”. On Tuesday, they got their wish, and then some.
Snidest 0
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Question answered in attached link
* Spoiler: he sooks like a spoilt toddler - throws the Board under the bus - and proves he believes that he and Justin ARE the club....
‘Disrespectful and disgraceful’: Inside the day of chaos at the Wests Tigers
When Lee Hagipantelis parked his Ferrari in his usual spot at the Tigers’ Concord HQ on Tuesday morning, he had no inkling it was to be for the last time.
He was always going to be aggrieved because he was using the club as his fifedom - networking expenses wallet - and stepping stone to a media profile with the full compliance of the co-dependent CEO!
A sample if you cannot access the full article:
There was an eerie similarity to the drama that surrounded the departure 18 months ago of former coach Michael Maguire, who was marched out of the club’s facility just hours after presiding over a training session that morning.
Once the executioners, on Tuesday Hagipantelis and Pascoe became the executed.
“I feel there has been gross disrespect shown to the Wests Tigers and to myself personally by my fellow directors,” Hagipantelis told the Herald on Tuesday night.
“We were never paid the respect of being involved or consulted as to the review. Even to this day we have never been engaged or informed as to the results of the review or the recommendations.
“Now it appears unlikely that we will ever see the report. I think the process was disgraceful …”
“They have in my view created great harm to that club, and in particular that football department, and even more particular, Benji,” Hagipantelis said.
“They have removed from Benji his support system which primarily involved Justin. They have worked together extraordinarily hard for months to put together a football department, coaching structure and roster that will turn things around for the club.
“I know they’ve been working together really hard on some recruitment deals involving some very high-profile players. There’s no doubt this would jeopardise that.
“It would be completely ignorant for anyone to suggest that the major disruption to the organisational structure of the club will not impact on recruitment and retention. I have already been inundated by calls from player managers expressing grave concern with what has occurred.”
Shown his TRUE COLOURS!!
BAGNF05
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I bet he’s spewing vitriol at podcasters and independent reviewers.
jirskyr
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Yes at all times here I mean HBG appointing themselves to Wests Tigers.
crazycat
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Lets not confuse unrelated stuff.
Ofcourse we should have sued re the cowboys result, we should have also screamed Foul and badgered the referees more. 100% the board should have been angry and the calls that go against us, damn right I expect something done. Legal action has some weight and sometimes you have to "try", when the law isn't tested you just don't know if this will work.
Legal action also has an intimidation factor. Suddenly the ref is looking at 50k for robbing our team of points. might not work, but it may just make them think twice.
That said, I hope Lee H does not sue. Legal action is a move that has two loosers. One that looses a little and one that looses a lot. Heck Lee if you are going to sue, sue the Daily Telegraph for posting a stack of nonsense about our team. That's a small reason why you are not in the job. (bigger reason, you did not deliver).
This should be good considering he's a compensation lawyer.
rozelle_rudy
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Benji will be given 3 seasons minimum I think.
Snidest 0
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Zero clue!!
The Board is not the legal entity that made the offer!!
The club can withdraw said offer under new management - but otherwise the offer still stands under basic contract law!
gallagher
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You need interested readers.
rozelle_rudy
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It doesn't seem like a well-defined job. Each NRL chairman seems to take a different approach. Some micromanage, others just figureheads.
Snidest 0
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A spike in former long term staunch members signing back up again started the moment this as announced.
The Brydens sponsorship is in place for 2024 regardless of Lee spitting the dummy!
Best result is he tries to repudiate the Brydens sponsorship - and we take their $1M+ without having their ghastly logo on our jerseys after we sue for blatant breach of contract!
Snidest 0
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It's an honourary position - and Lee continually overstepped the bounds of his brief!!
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