Breaking news: HBG takeover

[Flash089]

That’s because I’m a Wests Tigers fan, you braindead dinosaur. Something you wouldn’t understand.

I’m a septuagénaire with a diagnosed borderline personnalité disorder. I love the WestsTigers. It is a strong brand for any kind of sporting club (except maybe a hunting club) Not even the boneheads at the NRL would let the Tiger, an apex predator, disappear from the NRL. The colours of the most prévalent Tiger in the wild are Orange, Black & White. There is a mutant Tiger which is Black and White and Grey. Only a handfull exist because they have inbred to imminent extinction. Most people call our team the Tigers because in linguistiques the sts-T combo is difficult for the tongue used to pronounce English words. We can train the tongue but we can’t call a Tiger Black and White without being forced onto the Short Bus.

 

[Jimmy]

It’s always the same few that fill up topics with garbage personal attacks and nonsense. I don’t want to have to filter through 20 pages of crap. Please DM each other smh

 

[FacePalm]

Too much hypotheticals of what might happen.

Referring to HBG simply as dysfunctional allows the suspected orchestrator of all this, to hide behind the veil of the HBG board, and entire group of debenture holders.

You guys with a voice need to apply pressure on the puppet master rather than allow them to hide behind the HBG board and DHs. While many directors have come and been turfed, they’re the constant on both HBG and WT boards for at least the last decade.

To kill the beast, you need to cut off the head.

 

[Tucker]

It’s always the same few that fill up topics with garbage personal attacks and nonsense. I don’t want to have to filter through 20 pages of crap. Please DM each other smh

I have read the whole thread.
A lot of ridiculous over the top reactions, some funny, most bordering on catastrophizing….but the secondary sub thread of half a dozen people ganging up and abusing the hell out of one member is annoying.
Fulfil your charter mods. There are far too many personal attacks in this thread.

 

[Batmans Parents]

Lying about what ?
You think you can bully people into conforming to your views, that’s not how it works.
You fail to admit you have no idea if Paton’s comments are true or not,
If Paton’s comments turn out to be true, that does not mean you or anyone else have to be happy with HBG involvement. There is no problem if you or anyone else’s want to see HBG gone for the better of the club moving forward, but the point is you want to bully and fail to acknowledge you do not have any concrete evidence at this stage to know if Paton’s comments are true or not.
I have not tried forcing anyone to believe his comments are true, you do not have the right to force anyone to believe his comments are not true until proven otherwise.

Nice try, dumb-dumb. People came at you because you refused to answer a simple question while continuing to parrot what Paton had said. Not for saying wait for the investigation. You had no concrete evidence beyond HBG word and you took that as gospel while questioning BOF statement. It was one simple question from multiple posters and you refused to answer it because it showed how absurd both yours and HBG claims are.

You took a side, refused to engage when challenged on that and are now being exposed for trying to play the victim. But I realise there’s no getting through to a lying geriatric, I’ve wasted enough time on a simpleton like you.

 

[tigertragic]

If the NRL and L&G do nothing, then HBG will continue to bring destabilisation and dysfunction to Wests Tigers, as that has been the constant under their administration. Wests Tigers will be destined to continued failure.

 

[Bigscreentv]

Last time Anthony blue man was asked in an article , he said he wanted to bring back a balmain tigers... still a better option

Yeah, I know. My comment was tongue in cheek.

Tigers need a new owner that's independent of the history.

 

[UnderTheBus]

As the viewpoint of an outsider, I remember saying about a decade ago that the owners don’t care about winning football games.
They enjoy the prestige of owning a club and the traffic that funnels into their hospitality network.
Some of them hold fantasies of a Magpie resurgence but it’s not their primary driver I suspect.
It must still be a positive strategic decision otherwise a smart operator would have sold the joint ages ago.

It's entirely a status thing for these board members and debenture holders and nothing else - HBG make plenty of money from pokies revenue and contribute bugger all to Wests Tigers compared to what other Sydney clubs get paid from their Leagues clubs (this is a good thing for WT) so there is no need to sell off the club. They just like stirring the pot for their own agendas and networking (as you pointed out).

There would be no need for any of us to want new owners if HBG had a proper democracy where idiots like Dennis Burgess could be voted out and held accountable. Every single one of us would be WA members and turn up to vote in the best interest of the Leagues club which would then flow to the football club.

 

[coivtny]

Hi dad, it's me..

Are you my fifth?

 

[pawsandclaws1]

My thoughts are the NRL are pleased with WTs improved off field and on field performance under Richardson and the old board. What has happened is bad for the NRL brand considering it has been self inflicted. In an age where professionalism is demanded, especially when $12m is handed out annually by the NRL to clubs, we await the response from the NRL because this is not about WTs, but a slap down of the NRL's plans for expansion in the SW.. We have the keys to one of the largest growth areas in Sydney, and it is about time we work together to fully realise it's potential.