HBG, Independent Directors Sacked

Milky said:
Curious who actually signed off on Benji extension

Most certainly would and should have performance clauses

Would have been happy for him to prove himself over 26’ and 27’ but signing an unproven coach for another 5 years just shows how much of a rabble we are
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My guess is its tied to demands luai and bula have made, would not surprise me if the clause removal for luai and the bula extemnsion are announced soon.
 
innsaneink said:

Wests Tigers board member quits amid "sexually explicit" Instagram expose​

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Death, taxes and chaos at the Wests Tigers.
Chairman of the Holman Barnes Group, Dennis Burgess, who serves on the board of the NRL club, has resigned from his position.

It comes just days after it was reported that Burgess followed hundreds of sexually explicit pages on Instagram, though he insists it is not the catalyst behind his decision to step away.
Using the handle "wildmandenny", more than 200 of the 4500 accounts Burgess follows on Instagram display inappropriate content.
“No-one has forced me out, it’s my decision," he told News Corp. “That Instagram page is a relic from my old music life.
“I haven’t touched it since 2017.
“To be clear, I wasn’t ever steering it – someone helping with promotions was driving the account and they likely followed just about everyone to boost the profile.
“Yeah sure, it really should’ve been a generic music handle rather than me, but to me it’s long since been forgotten.
“I wouldn’t say I was hacked, in the technical sense of the word. But I’ve sure been blindsided by it because I was not in control of it.
“At the end of the day, people have jumped on it and weaponised it for their own reasons.”

Burgess' resignation comes just days after the club sacked four board members before being forced to overturn their decision by the NRL.
CEO Shane Richardson was also removed from his position and the club, in the midst of the chaos and instability, looks set to hand Benji Marshall a new contract extending through to 2030.
Burgess has been a director of the Holman Barnes Group since 2001.
It was only in April this year that he was appointed as chairman of the Holman Barnes Group. He has also been serving as a chairman with the Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club.
In his professional life, the former singer has been the chairman of the Australian Songwriters Association since 2003.
With his services to the performing arts and the music industry, he was awarded a medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2024.

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The bloke can't even govern his own Instagram account.
 
mtd#2 said:
WHat other choice did we have?

Our current playing group are all tied to Benji... If there was no certainty around his future going into 2026 then we may as well have kissed the season goodbye...

In a perfect world it's not ideal that we signed him so long... But at the same time, there are indicators we are on the up with him in charge..

Imagine if Brad Arthur came in the impact that would have had on our squad? We would all give up.. I doubt many of us could deal with another rebuild
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He was signed through 2027 but.

If it locks in Luai / Bula I don’t hate it, but Benji pretty much just told us Luai’s clauses won’t go away.
 
pawsandclaws1 said:
I agree the club's initiatives in the Southwest growth areas, the COE UWS and Campbelltown Oval. I also agree with the WTs Board's decision on Leichhardt Oval. These align imo with the NRL's plans for the expansion of the NRL, tv rights and sponsorship. The NRL via PVL has said the club "will always be Weststigers" and in relation to HBG being kept informed, this is from a SMH article which

"Despite having representation on the Tigers board, HBG claimed it was left out of key decisions such as the team’s stadia policy. It’s a claim that prompted a legal letter from the sacked directors, resulting in a video from HBG chief executive Daniel Paton being taken down from the company’s website".
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True mate, the video from HBG chief Daniel Paton was taken down. The rest of that quote is merely conjecture, unless you have evidence of the legal letter sent from the sacked directors. To my knowledge, no one knows the real truth and most likely never will. My point was that if this were the case, I felt it would show disrespect to HBG.
"Only my opinion and just trying to put some balance in the negative posts within this supposed Wests Tigers (Supporters) Forum."
 
KevB said:
True mate, the video from HBG chief Daniel Paton was taken down. The rest of that quote is merely conjecture, unless you have evidence of the legal letter sent from the sacked directors. To my knowledge, no one knows the real truth and most likely never will. My point was that if this were the case, I felt it would show disrespect to HBG.
"Only my opinion and just trying to put some balance in the negative posts within this supposed Wests Tigers (Supporters) Forum."
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We ‘support’ a football team and a coach. We go to games, pay our memberships, buy our merchandise and media subscriptions, and ride the highs and mostly lows this club provides us as a group.

When we don’t trust the shareholders above the team have the same support for it, we’re not going to take it lying down.
 
KevB said:
True mate, the video from HBG chief Daniel Paton was taken down. The rest of that quote is merely conjecture, unless you have evidence of the legal letter sent from the sacked directors. To my knowledge, no one knows the real truth and most likely never will. My point was that if this were the case, I felt it would show disrespect to HBG.
"Only my opinion and just trying to put some balance in the negative posts within this supposed Wests Tigers (Supporters) Forum."
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I am a supporter of the club but what we do know as reported in SEN is PVL "met with the four independent directors to hear their side of the story after their initial removal, and the NRL reached out to the HBG to express their concerns, ultimately seeing them reinstated."
 
TheEnz said:
so Burgess steps down as board member of wests tigers yet remains chairman of HBG....did he sack himself from the WT board for not communicating to himself as chair of the HBG....you couldn't make this shit up if you tried.
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Stood himself down less than 2 years ago as well...
Re-instated himself a couple months later.

This is ALL HIM - ALL OF IT!!
He knifed Wayde, His behind Romero long enough to Knife her too...
Then took to the Independents and Richo.

How many scalps this fella want?
 
batboy said:
Stood himself down less than 2 years ago as well...
Re-instated himself a couple months later.

This is ALL HIM - ALL OF IT!!
He knifed Wayde, His behind Romero long enough to Knife her too...
Then took to the Independents and Richo.

How many scalps this fella want?
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Hopefully if he still has clout at HBG he can chop them to pieces too.

A good thing it will still keep the microscope on them.
 
FacePalm said:
Exactly. Like Don Trimp has stacked the supreme court with judges to affect judicial power within conservative values, Burgess has achieved the same with his appointments of new debenture holders only a month or two ago with staunch Magpies Allan Fallah, Leo Epifania, and Bob Cairns. Along with Mick Liubinskas and Burgess himself, there are some hardcore Magpies within the HBG fold. They've replaced the Hardgrove brothers, Romero, and Gilbert who were behind an independent Wests Tigers.

Add the known allies of Burgess in Tropiano, Montgomery, and his wife Clare Burgess, and others he must have in the debenture group to be able to wield the power he does, the issues for the NRL club won't go away until the debenture holder system is terminated, or HBG are out of Wests Tigers.
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A good man, Allan "Noisy" Fallah, a former Cheso boy!
 
nrlsurvivor said:
Balmain fans might be able to rest easy but what about Wests Tigers fans Peter?
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I’m glad you picked up on that, I thought it was an odd thing to say considering we are the Wests Tigers, not Balmain, not Wests. There really shouldn’t be any Balmain or Wests supporters left in the NRL. I thought that was the whole point!

On another note, I’m thankful if not surprised that PVL did intervene. I honestly thought he would just leave us to implode. How much real difference his intervention will make remains to be seen, but it’s something I guess getting BOF and the others back. No Richo though, so not a great result. I can’t imagine another CEO doing any better for us than Richo.
 
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