Taking a wrecking ball to the club! (Recent Media Reports)

[cochise]

By the way, as far as I can tell your posting history is that you are dead silent on any issue except management of the club.
It's crickets in every other thread.
You only turn up to parties like this with your noisemaker and streamers.

From someone with 88 posts?

 

[cochise]

Anyway I have bitten too much for this stinky bait, have a good day my friend.

 

[Ron Brodrick's Spirit]

Where is my comment giving approval to that post?

I believe you called my comment calling your good friend to account a "rubbish post".
Do you understand what tacit approval is?
I note you didn't call out your good friend's comment, only mine.

 

[twentyforty]

We just need to surgically remove the cancer. So Wests Tigers can be healthy like it never was.

I can’t help but wonder what may have been if both clubs were fully integrated into a single organisation with a renewed culture.

 

[cochise]

I believe you called my comment calling your good friend to account a "rubbish post".
Do you understand what tacit approval is?
I note you didn't call out your good friend's comment, only mine.

No you literally named me in your rubbish post. I was commenting on what you were accusing me of.

Your comprehension is poor, even on a post you wrote yourself.

 

[Ron Brodrick's Spirit]

Come on man, even you don't believe what you just wrote.
You slipped up in a fit of pique.
It happens, but your true feelings are out now.
Good job on the not biting.

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

You 2 are both pretty intelligent. Its good to know that both ya all have our teams back and more importantly the fans. Appreciate the banter. Looking from the outside in. We are 1.

 

[cochise]

Come on man, even you don't believe what you just wrote.
You slipped up in a fit of pique.
It happens, but your true feelings are out now.
Good job on the not biting.

As I said I am happy for other to decide on both our intentions here.

 

[Ron Brodrick's Spirit]

As I said I am happy for other to decide on both our intentions here.

That's nice.
Personally I post what I believe to be true.
I stopped worrying about impressing others a long time ago

 

[Telltails]

Their is a faction within the board that runs the club. It is the directors that have confirmed that by their leaks and actions.
Doesn't matter which side of that faction you support and your reasons for it a board can't function effectively if the people making decisions are more interested in maintaining their power instead of acting in the best interests of the club. And while ever the opposing factions both feel they know best and they remain there we have a problem

 

[weststigers]

If a Balmain backed consortium can go head to head for the NRL licence why wouldn’t they considered emptying their deep pockets at the time Balmain were broke and Wests bought out the BRLFC share? We would have retained a 50 / 50 joint venture and had half the club privately owned.
If anything that’s what Balmain should be pushing now if that option has always remained on the table with HBG.

I think the debt compared to what you got for it was a financial abyss. It would have been more of a donation considering the position Balmain were in.

Either way, I'd prefer to see HBG sell the lot to another party. 50/50 with Balmain is going to create more infighting.

 

[BZN]

BZN ….let me ask you a question,,,, Are you happy with what is going on with those two and the other HBG board members? Their brawling and fallout is having a continued negative impact on the club …

What more should I know ? Perhaps if there is more than they can tell us ? According to the journalist that started this latest drama …they were both contacted for comment and refused …..perhaps in hindsight if there is nothing much to the story and they emphatically deny the allegations …then that would have been the time to say it hey …?

TS...you can't answer a legitimate question by asking a Q.

 

[BalmainJnr]

Here here @Hargreaves great summary!

Romero, Burgess, Montgomery & Tropiano have an opportunity to backflip their alleged position otherwise they will shortly feel the wrath of Liquor & Gaming, NRL & 1000s of fans and become the most hated people in Australian sport.

Let's hope we receive news this week on the status of the Wests Tigers board appointments & final review recommendations being delivered.

What makes you think we will hear about WT board appointments this week?

 

[Tom Shines]

Their is a faction within the board that runs the club. It is the directors that have confirmed that by their leaks and actions.
Doesn't matter which side of that faction you support and your reasons for it a board can't function effectively if the people making decisions are more interested in maintaining their power instead of acting in the best interests of the club. And while ever the opposing factions both feel they know best and they remain there we have a problem

who is running the WT right now?

the three from HBG right ? Julie, Burgess and the CEO…

I don’t think there is another faction anymore … aren’t they banned from entering the premises or something?

 

[Tom Shines]

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TS...you can't answer a legitimate question by asking a Q.

Welll … that’s all I got this time… I can’t answer what I don’t know… all I can do is ask for more information

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

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Welll … that’s all I got this time… I can’t answer what I don’t know… all I can do is ask for more information

What we all dont know nor are privelaged to be privy too. You are both correct. We don't know anything.

 

[jadtiger]

Let's be very clear.

This is being agitated by directors that are about to loose their jobs.

I'm not worried about this at all.

The sooner the directors holding back progress get the bullet (figuratively) the better.As a club we have had more than our fill of incompetent dropkicks getting their own way

 

[Jux]

The structure of the ownership of the Club is broken - the whole debenture situation is ridiculous, archaic and actually from a legal standpoint highly questionable. The Constitution obviously needs to be rewritten to bring it, and the ownership structure of the Club, into line with 21st century business practices and proper governance.

This. 💯 !
As a long time Wests Ashfield general member, it is one of the most frustrating aspects of the club’s structure. Gaining a debenture virtually has to be inherited as a birthright !

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

All of 3 people. Living in the past. Dead Souls. Lost in time. I am.happy to buy 3 tickets for them on the last bus to Terrigal.

 

[Jux]

There is a lot of misinformation and confusion on this site about what is going on here. The facts are pretty straightforward. The HBG under the Chairmanship of Andreacchio and with the support of Gilbert and Wayde initiated the review which resulted in the dissolution of the former WT Board and the removal of Hagipantelis as Chair and Pascoe as CEO. Note that this cost these 3 directors their own positions at Wests Tigers but they were happy to support this for the good of the Club). The new CEO, Shane Richardson was appointed and O'Farrell was appointed as Chair. The Review also required the rapid appointment of a high quality Board of independent directors. Then fairly soon after this there I believe that there was a coup at the HBG Board and Romero was appointed Chair and Burgess Deputy. While Romero made statements that she supported implementation of the Review's recommendations, the fact that it has taken all year to appoint the 'high quality independent directors' and it still hasnt happened, does not give you much confidence that she and Burgess are supportive of such quality independent Board appointments. (In fact, I understand that the previous executive search firm put forward several high quality names many months ago, but the process was constantly delayed and deferred. And just recently they started again from scratch on a search process). Andreacchio's comments about 'people who are upset about losing their blazers' is a clear reference to other board members. There have also been some suggestions that Chairman Fedora may somehow be involved in this whole situation behind the scenes in order to get revenge and that Romero and Burgess may be beholden to him - however so far there is no evidence to support this. The whole 'investigation' into misbehaviour by Andreachhio, Wayde and Gilbert appears to clearly be a sham designed to have them removed from the HBG Board, so that the HBG Board can introduce other people who align with certain directors' interests - and that would almost certainly be highly detrimental to the Club's future. The structure of the ownership of the Club is broken - the whole debenture situation is ridiculous, archaic and actually from a legal standpoint highly questionable. The Constitution obviously needs to be rewritten to bring it, and the ownership structure of the Club, into line with 21st century business practices and proper governance.

The losers are the members and fans. We finally have a CEO who is highly professional, works incredibly hard, is highly respected in the NRL community and has achieved more in less than 12 months than previous administrators achieved in 12 years. We have the highest quality Chairman in the NRL. We need to appoint genuinely high quality independent directors with business acumen and intelligence. We are finally getting the recruitment right in terms of talent, structure and terms of the contracts. We are finally attracting very high quality sponsors and treating them with respect. We are finally doing something about capturing our vast junior areas and developing them. And we are finally engaging professionally with the south-west Sydney corridor. All in 12 months!! These are remarkable achievements. In summary, we are no longer a 'basket case' (which is how many very senior NRL officials referred to the club under previous administrations). We are finally earning respect. We finally have an administration and Club set-up that quality players wish to join. We finally have something to look forward to. We finally have hope!

And yet the clear suggestion is that some directors appear to want to tear it all down simply because their egos are bruised. Seriously?!! If these people care about this Club, as they claim to do, they themselves would step aside, let Barry O'Farrell and a professional executive search firm finalise the appointments of high quality genuinely independent directors and let the Club finally move forward.

For the sake of the long-suffering members, the fans, the players and the Club.

Just playing devils advocate, all those fine achievements have still occurred with the current structure ! 🥴