Recent content by Joel Helmes

They are well within their rights to walk away completely, I’m not fussed.

It’s almost like they aren’t really totally invested in a Balmain Leagues Club. Hmm 🤔

We talk Saukuru debut, Schuster training accident, Brailey signing and preview Sunday's clash with the Dragons.

They pretty much own and have control over Balmain now anyway.

They own 90%, they will get what they want. You can see that it’s just managed decline until then, fully allowing them to justify blowing it all up.

Wow, that is left field! Imagine the rivalry!!

Wests Tigers management/ownership is like have an addiction or being in an abusive relationship. Until you accept your reality, accept you have a problem, you won’t be able to change. I detest having to have this conversation over and over, but until significant change is made in the way the...

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Cause they absolutely detest each other.

That’s not public information. But if you have majority control then there HBG have their finger prints on it. Have a look at the Wests appointees on the board (and Stapleton), no one wonder we are stuck in the mud!

The football club board is dominated by HBG debenture holders.

I don’t see us turning this around on the current trajectory. Each day it seems increasingly that we are heading for a major crash and course correction.

Well, Balmain has no money or power, so that will never happen. Potentially, something will eventually happen: 1. Wests will sell the whole club (very unlikely). 2. The debenture system will be terminated (highly unlikely). 3. There will be a deal struck that allows for Balmain to be split out...

Wests Tigers haven’t been a joint venture or merger for 15 years. Wests Tigers is a wholly owned and managed subsidiary of the Western Suburbs Magpies. The senior management of the club came into that position by way of an antiquated protection racket known as debentures. Senior management did...

The latest post-loss edition of the Wests Tigers Podcast is good to go. This time, something a little different - we ask contributors to name a song or movie title to describe the afternoon's events at Parramatta. There's also a conspiracy theory raised, and we look at what Jayden Brailey could...