Will you be attending the Save the Wests Tigers March?

Will you be attending the Save the Wests Tigers rally?

  • Yes, I care about the future of Wests Tigers

    Votes: 52 38.2%

  • No, it's just not possible for me to get there but I would if I could

    Votes: 81 59.6%

  • No, I support Wests Magpies not Wests Tigers

    Votes: 2 1.5%

  • No, I don't care about the future of the Wests Tigers

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Total voters
    136
BZN said:
Yes it is.
You can fool yourself into thinking that if you want.
But it's been stated on here hundreds of times the people from the Balmain side of the JV want to get rid of anyone that doesn't meet your approval.
It wasn't said in those exact words, but the terminology used meant exactly the same.
Many of you showed great excitement when back door met with Wests
officials to discuss buying the club.
Harry Trigaboff's name has been suggested many times to buy Wests.
Y'all were excited about the possibility of the Blue Wiggle buying the club.
And you're trying to convince us you don't want to take over the club.
Sorry, but you are telling porkies.
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It amazes me how many ignorant and arrogant fans of a club that died 25 years ago there are.

For the final time, the protest rally has absolutely nothing to do with Balmain. Nothing. It had everything to do with Wests Ashfield being so incredibly incompetent and unprofessional they they'd rather watch the club fail than share control.

Tell me, how would you feel about Wests MacArthur taking over the license from Wests Ashfield?
 
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Just want to say I'm a little disappointed in the available Poll options.

You are either going, too far to attend or a Wests Magpies fan.

There was no Option D- not that excited

Put me down for that option.
 
BAGNF05 said:

Anyone got the article text?
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The political infighting at Wests Tigers has claimed a fifth high-profile victim with Shane Richardson resigning as club chief executive amid a dire declaration from Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne that the joint venture club may soon “cease to exist.”
Richardson informed Wests Tigers staff on Monday morning of his departure before the club released a statement in the afternoon.

“If this level of chaos and dysfunction is allowed to continue, and we don’t draw a line in the sand, then there is a very real risk that Wests Tigers will simply cease to exist as an NRL franchise,” said Byrne.

“If we don’t take a stand now and send a message that we want the Wests Tigers to survive, we don’t need to look very far in the inner-west to see what could happen. Ask a Newtown fan or North Sydney Bears fan how they felt when their team was no longer in the competition. We want to save our club.”

Richardson’s shock exit comes after four independent directors, including former NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell, were dumped from the club’s dysfunctional board just last week.

“His resignation paves the way for a new path forward for the football club,” said Holman Barnes CEO Daniel Paton.

“We will be making an announcement about the new leadership in the near future.”

While that announcement is likely to be the appointment of Manly’s Tony Mestrov as new Wests Tigers CEO, former Central Coast Mariners chief executive Shaun Mielekamp has become a last minute candidate to become the club CEO.

Mielekamp enjoys support from several strategic powerbrokers at Concord.

This masthead has been told that Richardson – just 18 months into a four-year deal at Concord – and the club have agreed to a termination payout.

“All I know is that I’ve done my best, I’ve done what I think is right, but at the end of the day it wasn’t good enough. I will not be that person, or one of those people, that bags this club when I leave,” he said.

Asked about the possibility that the backroom brawling could prompt star players Jarome Luai and Jahream Bula to leave, Richardson said: “They have a task on their hands now but I can’t do anymore.

“Everybody is an expert but nobody really knows just how much pain you’ve got to go through to make the decisions to set the club up, in a position both on and off the field, to be successful,” he said.

“They are hard decisions and one thing I have never backed away from are hard decisions.”

Richardson was accused of failing to inform the Holman Barnes Group – Wests Tigers’ chief financial backers – of several significant decisions, an allegation he has denied.

O’Farrell took to social media to praise Richardson, saying: “It’s been a pleasure – and at times an unexpected education – to have worked with Shane Richardson for the past three years.

“‘Richo’s’ focus, experience and ability to recruit talent to the club and front office delivered the great results for the club’s match attendances, sponsorship revenue & membership.

“He was delivering on Jack Gibson’s truism that ‘winning starts in the front office’.

“No club can afford to lose someone with the experience and ability of someone like Shane. By any measure it’s a big loss. #InBenjiWeTrust.”

Richardson’s departure was accepted by the Holman Barnes Group.

“We thank Shane for his service,” said Paton. “We again wish to reassure our fans and the broader NRL of our commitment to the joint venture.

“We intend for everyone to move forward together as one, and will be driving this reality through a new CEO and leadership.”
 
The Chad said:
Just want to say I'm a little disappointed in the available Poll options.

You are either going, too far to attend or a Wests Magpies fan.

There was no Option D- not that excited

Put me down for that option.
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Fine I added an option D for you.

But anyone who selects option D should be removed from the forum because you're just a troll.

Either you care about Wests Tigers, or you don't.
 
Aaron Woods could go full redemption arc & come back to fight for the future of Wests Tigers among the fans that call him Sharon.
 
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