HBG, Independent Directors Sacked

[The Chad]

I don’t trust anyone who says HBG are doing things in the best interests of WT.

I'd watch out for that guy too.

Wait- was that me?

 

[liltiger]

Im not saying he is a great operator, just filling in his experience.

100% a ceo position at any N.R.L club is a great opportunity, only 17 of them. Just hope HBG let him do his thing, not theirs 🤞

 

[batboy]

Known debenture holders include:

• Peter DiMichiel (Chairman)
• Dennis Burgess (Chairman, also a Director of Wests Tigers)
• Kevin Hammond
• Daniel Lane
• Clare Burgess
• Fiona Shand
• Russell Smith
• Brian Cook
• Mick Liubinskas
• Scott Beynon
• Paul Marsh
• Allan Fallah (Appointed recently)
• Leo Epifania (Appointed recently)
• Bob Cairns (Appointed recently)
• Tony Raciti (Appointed recently)

Anyone else heard Burgarse has been Buying out Debentures,
Maybe bought the Weathermans after his passing?
@cochise

 

[The Chad]

Just thinking whats the use of holding a rally if the person didn’t want to fight for his position , I wanted Richo to stay but he has just rolled over and left benji and the players to look after themselves, surely he could have stood up to them at least untill the nrl had looked at the situation

Or...he could just resign.

In the middle of an NRL investigation.

While clearly agreeing not to say anything to the media in order to get his payout, that should have been due to him if the clauses are to be believed.

 

[Bus 2 Terrigal]

I didn’t write the Facebook post

 

[BAGNF05]

Mate its very australian for regulators to do nothing. ASIC are known for softness don't see nrl being any different

Never say never.

 

[liltiger]

It didn't do anything

Your kidding

 

[BAGNF05]

Just thinking whats the use of holding a rally if the person didn’t want to fight for his position , I wanted Richo to stay but he has just rolled over and left benji and the players to look after themselves, surely he could have stood up to them at least untill the nrl had looked at the situation

He stood to his word that he would only work under strong governance. Principles, if HBG are reading.

 

[The Chad]

I distinctly remember Pasco being quoted saying while at the Tigers while being criticised that there were things he wanted to implement that HBG knocked on the head.
Imo HBG did not govern what Richo could do that's why imo the independants were removed. They stack the board then can control how much autonomy Richo has. Though Richo is autonomous he just runs things so that would never work hence he walked.
That's my point exactly doesn't matter who's there they will be either aligned with HBG objectives or hamstrung cause HBG will vote it down at board level. We had Madge and Ivan Cleary who left. Both hamstrung due to interference at board level. The board intervened with Madge cause he was too hard on the players, Cleary reportedly saw the boardroom politics and knew it wasn't good for success.
Hasn't exclusively been HBG Wests Campbelltown and Balmain were involved aswell. But there's a repeated behaviour of owners at Wests Tigers whoever they are thinking they know how to run and operate a rugby league team like they're playing fantasy football, people who actually know how to run as far from it as they can.

If anything HBG held onto Madge too long & it was Lee & Pascoe via Sheens that moved him on.

Cleary moved once he realised Nathan wouldn't come to the Tigers. Not sure HBG had much to do with that.

Pascoe...here is what I'll say about HBG. If you are the significant share holding financier....whatever they are....no company owner is "hands off". What kind of company would hand everything over to someone else & expect no say in it?

Pascoe was given enough rope to hang himself 10 times over. HBG allowed him to do that.

 

[tigertragic]

I'd watch out for that guy too.

Wait- was that me?

🤣

 

[Bruiser]

That's the one. I think the reps are actually technically split between 1 HGB and 1 Wests Magpies (Leo), but I did see a prior poster mention that he had joined the debenture holders too.

No doubt a Burgess stooge at very least.
Good to settle Who's Who in the Zoo!

 

[TigerJunior4]

I will say in fairness to Darcy, I don't know him personally, but I have no doubts he's a legitimate serious supporter. @cochise or one of the podders could also chime in because they've spoken with him.

I see Darcy regularly at home games and he's also often watching matches at the club; never seen him do this in his capacity as mayor, always dressed casually and keeping to himself.

I’ve seen him watching and supporting the Tigers at the pub a fair few times when we’re playing away games with a few friends.

I’ve seen him a few times in the inner west doing this a few times; like you said dressed casually, low

He’s a legitimate supporter and I don’t know him personally.

 

[area52]

Your kidding

The dopes reversed everything as originally suspected (that they would never change)

 

[Bus 2 Terrigal]

Known debenture holders include:

• Peter DiMichiel (Chairman)
• Dennis Burgess (Chairman, also a Director of Wests Tigers)
• Kevin Hammond
• Daniel Lane
• Clare Burgess
• Fiona Shand
• Russell Smith
• Brian Cook
• Mick Liubinskas
• Scott Beynon
• Paul Marsh
• Allan Fallah (Appointed recently)
• Leo Epifania (Appointed recently)
• Bob Cairns (Appointed recently)
• Tony Raciti (Appointed recently)

There are some very good people on that list 👍

 

[twentyforty]

There are some very good people on that list 👍

I don’t doubt that. Even the ex magpie players are ok in my book. But that’s not the point is it?

 

[Flash089]

The events of the past week had ZERO to do with the colour of the jersey. I personally think it looks hideous - but none of the Board shenanigans are in any way tied to this fashion faux pas.

But hey, every time the Wests Ts hit the headlines - the usual Wests/Balmain tropes and myths are unleashed 🙄

Mentioning that the Tiger is a strong brand is not a Balmain trope. It’s an opinion backed up by fanbase data. The Wests Tigers large fanbase are its strength. It’s obvious from their behaviour that the HB Group are not qualified to run a NRL franchise. Smart investors let the experts run the show. PVL’s silence smells to high
heaven.

No, I’m sure this is the right place. We’re all Wests fans here 👍

You mean we’re all Wests Tigers fans here.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

Funny that there is no other club in NSW that uses a debenture system anymore. I wonder why?

 

[BZN]

Just stop replying guys he’ll get the hint eventually.

I'm really interested to know why someone with a Wests Magpies avatar is so anti Wests.

 

[TigerJunior4]

It'll be back to what Madge and Potter had to put up with. Everything being picked at and pulled apart by the Board, results of end of season reports ending up in the SMH. CEOs and Coaches being sacked by people without a clue. Changing plans all the damned time. They can't leave it the way proper outfits know how to govern and they think the club is their own personal possession. And also being Magpies they'll act as if things never went bust at lidcombe, never went bust at Campbelltown, and that the last 10 years of failure had nothing to do with them either.

Being a debenture holder of a leagues club does not make you as an individual person the owner and king of Wests Tigers or the Magpies.

Leaks have already started. It was airtight under the independents with only the HBG dramas being leaked.

Now we’re hearing it’s Mestrov, and all this news coming out from insiders in the club.

 

[The Chad]

There are some very good people on that list 👍

And.... "Russell Smith"