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

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Snidest 0 said:
Wrong!

The Burgess/Romero apologists and deniers are the equivalent of the cohort of enablers who kept Alan Jones protected from legal repercussions for historical abuse allegations for four decades out of a perversely skewed sense of loyalty!!
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Yes, I agree. The Alan Jones goings on was disgraceful. If found guilty I hope he gets what he deserves.... and there will be plenty to choose from apparently. Yukypoos!!! 😖
 
Dr_Ice said:
So Wests Magpies played there for 13 years, and the Wests Tigers have played there 25 years (almost twice as long)
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If you say so, you must be correct, and I stand corrected.
But then I am not an aficionado on Wests Magpies matters.
I love your name.... Dr_Ice...it's so cool.
 
BZN said:
G'day @KevB...I don't know who you are or where you have sprung from, but a big, friendly 😀and warm 🌞 welcome to the latest round of...???....???....I'll leave you to fill in the missing words👍.
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Incognizant squabble by people from WTF with a little help from Joel Helmes and Cochise.
 
Joel Helmes said:
The importance review recommendation was the appointment of skilled independent directors onto the Wests Tigers board.
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7 witches hats get my vote. Pretty sure they’d be capable of staying out of the papers and not believing they are actually relevant.

Richo is proving a football club can operate without useful blazer wearers, as long as they just STFU.
 
Lestronge said:
A kid got swept away the other day . When things are avoidable , I’m reluctant to use words like tragedy . I’m not sure how to define it , but you can’t help but shake your head .
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Common sense isn’t so common is it. Still feel for peoples family who lose a love one due to stupidity.
 
Tom Shines said:
the fresh start was agreed 25 years ago …Wests Tigers…

You can’t wipe the slate clean again…
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I just happen to disagree TS, but you knew I would anyway.

If the NRL approve it, I feel a change to an independent name just like 1 or 2 independent board members, would solve a lot of the bickering.

And.......you wouldn't have to put up with me asking repeatedly to please use WESTS when referring to our team. Now that's gotta be a big bonus surely.

I really and truly reckon the Western Sydney BUSHRANGERS sounds great, and the poster who thunk this up should be applauded 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏.
And being Bushrangers, we could change our colours to camouflage and they would have a hard time seeing us on the field.
And that's gotta be an 'even bigger' bonus I reckon.
So, it's a definite YES vote from this old fart BZN 👍.

See, I'm happy to let the Magpies name go.
The Q now is, are you happy or at least prepared to let the Tiger go?
 
Tigerdazz2 said:
Good point. I'm an old Magpies fan but look at my forum handle. It's not true that all old Magpies want the club to ditch the Tigers name to become the Magpies.

Rick Wayde & the other directors "sidelined" by Romero, Burgess & Co are also old Magpies, in Rick's case he bled black & white blood and put in so much blood sweat & tears into saving the Magpies from the same fate as Newtown & Norths back in the 80s.
He led so many fundraising operations, organised a great concert at Lidcombe with some of Australia's best bands at the time. He was also probably the very best ground announcer of that era.

However Rick's mission in life is to see the Wests TIGERS become the NRL powerhouse it could & should be. The same goes with the other "deposed" directors.

I love the Masters Apprentices & actually met and spent some time chatting with Dennis Burgess at an ARIA awards night at The Ivy some years back. I liked the guy.....BUT both he and Julie Romero MUST GO!

Is there a petition up to get rid of (at least) these two? If not can someone a bit more tech savvy set one up? It worked with the one that saw Lee & Pascoe shown the door. Us fans and especially the members need to put so much pressure on Romero, Burgess & Co to either pull their heads in or resign....the latter being preferable!

I remember the crap a lot of the guys here used to give Marina Go, in my opinion undeservedly. She was a year above me at (Good Old Rooty Hill) High School and was a top debater & school captain. She is also a very successful journalist & business woman in her own right. I believe that she would be an excellent replacement for Romero as she is Wests Tigers through & through and was actually a Balmain supporter prior to 2000.

Something needs to be done, preferably BEFORE season 2025 kicks off!
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An excellent post Td2 👏 👍 👏 👍 👏 👍👏
 
weststigers said:
Brother. You own 90% of the joint. What are you talking about exactly?

What are you fighting for?
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I'm fighting for the battler, the homeless, the rights of our 1st nation people, the lonely, the hungry who need to go to the Wayside Chapel to get a decent feed with dignity, I'm fighting for people with psychiatric problems to be given the right care, I'm fighting for the carers of those people to be shown empathy, the poor who struggle every day, I'm fighting for people of all nations to live in peace and harmony and I hope Donald Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon doesn't stuff the U.S.A. before he gets kicked out of office at the next election... GOD Bless America.
 
hammertime said:
The problem is, we only needed 1 before the boot of the other 3. Now they've backed themselves into a corner. I can't see how the gaming commission can't get involved now. It smells very corrupt.
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Hope they do their board system went out with the ice age time to change it as long as the outcome doesn't hurt the football side of things shake it up.
 
I originally started this thread of which the site overseers decided to change the name. I was called all sorts of names for suggesting that the NRL needed to seriously consider tearing up the Wests Tigers licence to play 1st grade (paraphrased) and Wests Ashfield only be responsible for entering the Magpies in the NSW Cup because of the club infighting and the impact it was having in respect of on field performances (a threepete of wooden spoons) as well as the savagery of the media. As a long term Magpie supporter (since 1964) Balmain TIGER supporters have been treated like mugs. I will repeat that I have believed from day one that the joint-venture was doomed for failure, and hence zero culture was never going to develop in this divided club. Shame on all Wests Magpie supporters throwing up the Wests Ashfield's 90% ownership. Magpies were dead in the water without the generous offer from Balmain to forge a partnership. This latest Holman Barnes Board fiasco only reiterates that the Joint-venture cannot work, and the NRL need to step in and save the name WESTS TIGERS for the sake of the current generation of supporters. I love the Magpies but I am embarrassed and my support of the great game of Rugby League is slowly slipping away.
 
Tom Shines said:
other posters have said they prefer to see the club die than continue the way they have been going the past decade or so
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The true Aussie spirit and the British Bulldog spirit demand that we have to keep battling till we reach our zenith TS.
And that's not because it's easy, but because it's hard.
We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we will fight with growing confidence, and we will win.
And that includes Wests Magpies as well as Wests Tigers.
Remember that great song....yuh can't have one 🎶yuh can't have one 🎵 yuh can't have one 🎼 without the other.
 
batboy said:
Any chance you blokes might 'ever' concede that maybe the people that have been doing the job for the last decade might not be fit for purpose.

Appears to be a lot of 'blind faith' in all your posts based on your allegiance,
Without much recognition of the bleatingly obvious or acknowledging Wests Tigers current position.
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Who are these..."you blokes"?
 
weststigers said:
True, but they were at Lidcombe after Pratten Park.
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True but Lidcombe wasn't the regular venue until 1962, prior to that there was only 7 games at Lidcombe the first in 1941.

By the way from 1908 to 1999 Western Suburbs played 246 games at Lidcombe (August 31, 1941 - August 31, 1986) and 345 at Pratten Park (August 24, 1912 - August 18, 1985).

I was going to say "from 1908 to 1999 the Magpies played" but they weren't the Magpies until the late 1920's so corrected it to Western Suburbs.
 
Tucker said:
What about stupid wigs?
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My sister in law's brother's daughter's cousin was born with very thin hair due to it being a family thing like people born with a big nose or big ears.
Anyway, my sister in laws brothers' daughter's cousin was very conscious of her hair and for a woman that's bad. So, when she went outside, she would plonk a wig on her head.
A lot of us blokes go bald, but not me, it's only natural.
So, in essence what I am saying is, if it's right for you it's ok by me.
 
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