HBG, Independent Directors Sacked

tigertragic said:
Over the however many post since Monday the constant I see is the majority

Support Wests Tigers (not wests or Balmain)

Support Richo/Benji

Want a truly independent WT board working in the best interests of Wests Tigers

Do not think HBG have the best interests of WT in their constant boardroom turmoil and decisions.
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Well if Richo is gone as now predicted and the NRL sits on its hands to leave the HBG administration in charge, the only future guarantee is failure and incompetence by these proven buffoons, that will lead to continued supporter heartache and disbelief.
I will be attending the march, but I’m exhausted by these idiotic events and feel sorry for the various pod leaders who continue to fight the fight.
 
I'll support the Wests Tigers even if HBG are still involved, those dikeheads don't have that much influence over me. The Tigers are much more then a bunch of old farts.

I honestly don't know how they could show their faces again in the League world, such distain and contempt is the only feelings for this group, by the whole Rugby League world.

Even though I love the game it would be just a glancing interets in what's going on, no passion.
 
Love our playing group and Benji, Shame because we started showing some signs of stability and improvement, but the clubs management, politics and pure comedy of embarrassment towards the fans and the patch on the jerseys of the players is borderline unbearable, if I was contracted to the tigers right now as a player I’d be saying get me the F out of this circus !
 
The solution stating the Tigers in the face is to sell the club and control to Wests MacArthur group in its entirety including Balmain. End the nonsense and head West. They are a powerful club with huge resources and know footy. Interestingly they left the JV in 2013. The EBITDA of that club would pay for the footy club valuation say 40m in under 2 years.

They have the resources to entrench it out west even if it takes a decade to rebuild the fanbase.
 
Furious1 said:
Just saw Andrew Webster has written an article for the Australian saying Richo will quit tomorrow unless PVL appoints an independent administrator. Something Webster says PVL is seriously considering.
Unfortunately I don’t have access so can reproduce it here.
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Well looks like he'll quit because what's the likelihood of PVL doing that, they havn't done anything illegal.
 
Furious1 said:
Just saw Andrew Webster has written an article for the Australian saying Richo will quit tomorrow unless PVL appoints an independent administrator. Something Webster says PVL is seriously considering.
Unfortunately I don’t have access so can reproduce it here.
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NRL intervention looms as Wests Tigers chief Shane Richardson threatens to walk amid infighting​

The NRL faces a crisis as Wests Tigers CEO Shane Richardson delivers an ultimatum that could trigger player departures and administrative intervention at the embattled joint venture.
Andrew Webster

4 min read
December 7, 2025 - 5:24PM

Wests Tigers chief executive Shane Richardson will quit his job on Monday unless the ARL Commission appoints an independent administrator to save the embattled joint venture – something chairman Peter V’landys is strongly considering.
“We are investigating the powers we have in this type of situation, including appointing an administrator,” V’landys told The Australian.
Richardson has been weighing up his future since the Tigers’ majority shareholder, Holman Barnes Group, last week sacked the four independent directors it had only appointed in January.
Those close to Richardson say he’s “done”, fed up with the political infighting that has held back the club for more than a decade and a smear campaign levelled against him and senior staff.

Reports on Friday that the NRL integrity unit was investigating claims from a disgruntled former employee that Richardson had paid money to a digital, branding, and marketing company run by his son have only furthered his belief that it is time to leave.
It is understood Richardson will argue a large amount of the money relates to the consultancy fee he was paid while interim chief executive from December 2023 until June 2024.
He started a four-year contract on July 2, 2024, with a clause stipulating he would receive a full payout if independent directors weren’t on the board. He has 2½ years remaining on his deal. HBG last week discharged the four independents, including chairman and former NSW premier Barry O’Farrell, plummeting the club into chaos.

Richardson is expected to resign on Monday afternoon after addressing his staff, many of whom he had enticed to the club, although V’landys’s intervention at the 11th hour could change his mind.
“We are going to talk to both the independent directors and Holman Barnes,” V’landys said. “We are certainly not happy with the instability this has caused.”
It wouldn’t be the first time head office has stepped in to save a club from itself. In 2015, the NRL took ownership of the Gold Coast Titans in the wake of a cocaine supply scandal. They were placed in voluntary administration after realising they could not meet their financial obligations, including paying the salaries of staff and players.
Two years earlier, the NRL ordered the Tigers install an independent board in exchange for financial support as the club teetered on the brink of insolvency. A new board, headed by media executive Marina Go, was formed the next year.
 
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