hammertime
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As I read it, the interim board will be Barry and the other 3 directors.
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Tony Andreacchio is the chairman of the Holman Barnes Group and the one making statements of how him and the other directors of Weststigers were so wonderful for stepping down .... yet it's the Holman Barnes Group with the REAL power.
Wouldn't be surprised if he puts himself forward as the Wests representative to the board.
tigertragic
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Unfortunately it was Lee and Pascoe who pursued Fulton, according to Lee and they asked great footy minds like ray hadley, but not sheens
Halbrowne61
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It would be seperate to having him on the Board. Can you really see that happening or working ?
His cards were marked, we want him to continue as a sponsor but he’s had his time on the board.
And failed !
Harvey
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Ask Santa for a new sarcasm detector
Harvey
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Did they relinquish positions on the HBG board? Are they ineligible to be appointed to the new board
Harvey
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Does the sponsor get input into the signage? Looking forward to seeing a fedora wearing Lee on the front of our jerseys next year
tig_prmz
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He sponsors it and asks them to ask him what he has answers to and he can say what he wants.
I'm glad this guy is out. Why he had to disclose this much information is ridiculous and to bag people after they leave.
Headline hogger. Take your money and your sponsorship and bugger off.
Kaito
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I just started my day earlier & caught up
with Richos presser. Filled me with confidence,
the man is sharp as a tack, perfect guy
to get this ball rolling. Might get a new
membership myself after 7 odd years and
being from the area. The way he was talking
about governance & supporting the coach
warmed the cockles. Great signing Richo
The problem is, Cambo Stadium is a dive, no one ever turns up there and we always lose there.
Plus if you moved the entire operation out there long term it's a harder sell to get players to move out there, unless you kept all the training operations at Concord which is much closer to the city
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diedpretty
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All this wrist cutting over who will be the Wests rep on the board is laughable. Why not just wait and see who it is and then whinge if you disagree. From my understanding the Wests rep would come from the WSDRLFC not Holman Barnes - they have already placed Dave Gilbert on the board as their rep.
Todd Packer
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It doesn't really matter does it?
As the owners of the club the new board is still beholdin' to them so they retain their power without the critcism.
Todd Packer
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I've only seen people throwing up potential names. No wrist cutting unless I've missed something.
Of course the rep. will be from the Magpies , that's not news.
Some people get Wests Ashfield confused with Wests football club, that's understandable.
cochise
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I agree fully with this.
diedpretty
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There are a couple on here who keep throwing out conspiracy theories.
Tucker
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If that’s true then they could have communicated that better.
They are the ones responsible for Sheens being in there as coach. Remember he was hired as director of football.
hank37w
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As long as he has a gag on.
BlackWhiteGold
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Roy Masters has now chimed in. He would have links in with Andreacchio & Wayde I reckon. A few key points in bold.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/th...t-are-wests-tigers-fixed-20231213-p5er69.html
The hardest task in sport is to convince officials to surrender their blazers. Yet the board of Wests Tigers has done that, resigning in order for a more skills-brd directorship to drag the club out of the NRL cellar. In fact, the board of the rich Wests Ashfield Leagues club, which owns 90 per cent of the NRL licence has, on the surface, ceded power to an interim board half controlled by two directors affiliated with Balmain, which owns only 10 per cent.
Barry O’Farrell, a former NSW premier and stalwart Balmain fan, along with Danny Stapleton, chairman of Balmain Tigers, will take two places on the interim board of four. Former cricketer and administrator Dave Gilbert, a Roosters supporter, will be Wests Ashfield’s sole representative while Wests Magpies will nominate a director.
Magpies loyalists like Rick Wayde and Tony Andreacchio have resigned from the Wests Tigers board yet have been prime movers of the restructure since September, endorsing the return of O’Farrell as chairman. They have retained their places as directors of Wests Ashfield, suggesting the club with all the money and power has handed control to the one whose debts it paid off.
No wonder Balmain great Benny Elias enthusiastically endorsed the new board, while former Magpies greats stared forlornly into the bottoms of their schooners.
But perhaps the old axiom – never commission a review unless you know the outcome – applies.
When the Holman Barnes Group (essentially the Wests Ashfield board, whose chief executive Simon Cook is one of the smartest operators in licensed club land) ordered a review following fan unrest, perhaps someone anticipated the outcome.
The review’s recommendations, by former NRL chief financial officer Tony Crawford and businessman Gary Barnier, effectively leave Wests Ashfield in control.
Crawford-Barnier have recommended Wests Ashfield separate out reserve powers for the benefit of their 90 per cent ownership of the NRL franchise. The powers hived off are considerable, with Wests Ashfield controlling the purse strings and directorships.
The new board will increase from four to seven after six months, with the appointment of three independents. It cannot borrow money; it can’t sell the business or change the terms of the licence.
Wests Ashfield retains hire and fire rights of the directors of the NRL franchise, meaning under-performing ones are replaced.
But the ultimate board of seven will potentially have far more skills than the previous board. The independents can be drawn from past players and those with backgrounds in finance, marketing, health and diversity.
Committee members in days past stuffed party pies in their pockets after meetings and, while versed in the history of the club, knew more about the geography of the boardroom fridge. Boards with independents can be more strategic and operational; less likely to be reactive to irate fans an
and gossip over player movement.
With O’Farrell as chairman and Stapleton the only director retained from the old Wests Tigers board, it signals the divide between the 1908 foundation clubs is dead. Wests retains control but trusts the Tigers to run the interim show. Old Magpies doubt whether Balmain would have been as magnanimous if the tables had been reversed. The same Wests loyalists would prefer the whole joint venture to be dissolved and the club rebadged Magpies. But the NRL would never consent to this and, in any case, a whole generation of fans has grown up knowing the club only as Wests Tigers.
The danger with the new board structure is the choice of independents.
Wests Tigers have had independent directors before, under chair Marina Go when the club was in debt to the NRL.
Independent directors invite the traditional fan complaint that sport is now just a business. Somehow more disturbing is if the business people see a football club directorship as a bridge to a more highly paid corporate position elsewhere.
After all, if you snap the multicoloured braces of a corporate, a sports metaphor spills out, such as the eternal curse – “winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing”. NRL players wear suits to games; some of their directors wear sneakers. Failed businessmen “fumble the ball”.
The objective of the interim board of Wests Tigers is to put in place the 50-plus recommendations of the Crawford-Barnier review and recruit three independents with diverse skills and a passion to succeed.
Outgoing Wests Tigers chair Lee Hagipantelis was highly critical of his axing, but fans have been saying for years that the NRL club needed to do something. And now it has. Good luck to you.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/th...t-are-wests-tigers-fixed-20231213-p5er69.html
The hardest task in sport is to convince officials to surrender their blazers. Yet the board of Wests Tigers has done that, resigning in order for a more skills-brd directorship to drag the club out of the NRL cellar. In fact, the board of the rich Wests Ashfield Leagues club, which owns 90 per cent of the NRL licence has, on the surface, ceded power to an interim board half controlled by two directors affiliated with Balmain, which owns only 10 per cent.
Barry O’Farrell, a former NSW premier and stalwart Balmain fan, along with Danny Stapleton, chairman of Balmain Tigers, will take two places on the interim board of four. Former cricketer and administrator Dave Gilbert, a Roosters supporter, will be Wests Ashfield’s sole representative while Wests Magpies will nominate a director.
Magpies loyalists like Rick Wayde and Tony Andreacchio have resigned from the Wests Tigers board yet have been prime movers of the restructure since September, endorsing the return of O’Farrell as chairman. They have retained their places as directors of Wests Ashfield, suggesting the club with all the money and power has handed control to the one whose debts it paid off.
No wonder Balmain great Benny Elias enthusiastically endorsed the new board, while former Magpies greats stared forlornly into the bottoms of their schooners.
But perhaps the old axiom – never commission a review unless you know the outcome – applies.
When the Holman Barnes Group (essentially the Wests Ashfield board, whose chief executive Simon Cook is one of the smartest operators in licensed club land) ordered a review following fan unrest, perhaps someone anticipated the outcome.
The review’s recommendations, by former NRL chief financial officer Tony Crawford and businessman Gary Barnier, effectively leave Wests Ashfield in control.
Crawford-Barnier have recommended Wests Ashfield separate out reserve powers for the benefit of their 90 per cent ownership of the NRL franchise. The powers hived off are considerable, with Wests Ashfield controlling the purse strings and directorships.
The new board will increase from four to seven after six months, with the appointment of three independents. It cannot borrow money; it can’t sell the business or change the terms of the licence.
Wests Ashfield retains hire and fire rights of the directors of the NRL franchise, meaning under-performing ones are replaced.
But the ultimate board of seven will potentially have far more skills than the previous board. The independents can be drawn from past players and those with backgrounds in finance, marketing, health and diversity.
Committee members in days past stuffed party pies in their pockets after meetings and, while versed in the history of the club, knew more about the geography of the boardroom fridge. Boards with independents can be more strategic and operational; less likely to be reactive to irate fans an
and gossip over player movement.
With O’Farrell as chairman and Stapleton the only director retained from the old Wests Tigers board, it signals the divide between the 1908 foundation clubs is dead. Wests retains control but trusts the Tigers to run the interim show. Old Magpies doubt whether Balmain would have been as magnanimous if the tables had been reversed. The same Wests loyalists would prefer the whole joint venture to be dissolved and the club rebadged Magpies. But the NRL would never consent to this and, in any case, a whole generation of fans has grown up knowing the club only as Wests Tigers.
The danger with the new board structure is the choice of independents.
Wests Tigers have had independent directors before, under chair Marina Go when the club was in debt to the NRL.
Independent directors invite the traditional fan complaint that sport is now just a business. Somehow more disturbing is if the business people see a football club directorship as a bridge to a more highly paid corporate position elsewhere.
After all, if you snap the multicoloured braces of a corporate, a sports metaphor spills out, such as the eternal curse – “winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing”. NRL players wear suits to games; some of their directors wear sneakers. Failed businessmen “fumble the ball”.
The objective of the interim board of Wests Tigers is to put in place the 50-plus recommendations of the Crawford-Barnier review and recruit three independents with diverse skills and a passion to succeed.
Outgoing Wests Tigers chair Lee Hagipantelis was highly critical of his axing, but fans have been saying for years that the NRL club needed to do something. And now it has. Good luck to you.
I felt for Pascoe and Hagi as I believe they generally did their best despite making plenty of bad decisions along the way.
But when someone of the calibre of Shane Richardson is available to help the club move forward, you cannot hesitate.
He’s one of the best communicators and spokesperson I’ve seen involved in rugby league, absolutely brilliant.
But when someone of the calibre of Shane Richardson is available to help the club move forward, you cannot hesitate.
He’s one of the best communicators and spokesperson I’ve seen involved in rugby league, absolutely brilliant.
And what’s the real issue ? The whole club has had a broom through the joint . The real issue was the board / governance the literal only thing that has endured multiple regimes as far back as humphries and Mayer . The absolute right decision was made . This argument holds zero relevance in 2023 wests tigers . It’s literally a 2018-19 type argument .
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