hammertime
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The NRL funds the club to the tune of 10 to 1 compared to the "owners". That funding has conditions. Not sure if there is a lever there.
HBG, Independent Directors Sacked
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hammertime
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Great content! Quite a different issue though. Their owners are real owners, i.e. they purchased and fund the club with their own money. So if the club performs badly, they lose money and it's a natural feedback loop to do better.
We have squatters in our ownership that own nothing, that we can't get rid of. They have no accountability, and they are wasting members' money, not their own.
Even for Tottenham, where they are actual owners, they use the term stewardship. How HBG directors even get called owners boggles my mind.
HBG directors are fundamentally only stewards, way more than Tottenham. They need to act like it.
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crazycat
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YEP...
and maybe that could be Peter V's long game.
Tigers blow up. Peter may have realised that killing a Sydney team would help the competition.
The Dragons won't die easily, same for Parra...
Chooks are propped up by a millionaire and actually starting to get a fanbase.
the Sharks have been smart to get a good coach and building a good local structure. Really the Sharks should be facing the axe, but they have turned themselves into a well running outfit.
Heck HBG have more control now, not less. Perhaps Peter V reckons they will bring the Wests Tigers down.
Rock Hopper Steve
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I can't see PVL wanting to get rid of Wests Tigers, 400k of supporters is a lot of people to upset.
Can just imagine a call to arms march of the enormity of the South's rally years ago, our fan base is too big to just brush aside.
On the other hand if enough supporters demanded change of ownership would he listen, the great unknown.
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balmain boy
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It was decided to give HBG the opportunity to do the right thing. An independent board is a requirement.
If we send a thousand emails to V'landys I'm sure he'll get the message.
If Bula leaves, yes it will ramp up the pressure a million times. It will expedite their departure but to the detriment of the footy club. If he stays then the pressure for HBG to leave will remain. The damage is done. The relationships are irreparable.
The only acceptable solution is an independently run WT. As soon as this happens all this Balmain v Wests crap largely disappears. Almost everything becomes Wests Tigers.
TIGERS
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Spurs have the finest modern stadium in Europe and won a European title last season. They've sacked their cup winning Coach and dismissed their Denis Fitzgeraled-esq former chairman Daniel Levy. They're not without recent success and their fans need to be a bit more realistic. They were foolish to sack Ange as they did. And look, Spurs fans have been busted recently enjoying watching their own team lose because it was a worse result for Arsenal.
Spurs struggled to perform in the league last year, and the same group of players are struggling to perform now. You have to stay the course. If you want to have principles and all those nice dot points, that means you don't sh17 the bed if you're not seeing immediate results on the pitch.
Small clubs that are now roided up on EPL TV money like Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford all have fantastic football departments that invest millions into data science, recruitment/scouting and sports science. I geek out on some of the analytics and math involved. Brighton's owner is a professional gambler and some of their approaches are heavily, heavily guarded secrets. They're savvy, and if you don't have your act together or your team's not on the same page they're gonna pull your pants down.
It's either that or you're up against sovereign wealth. It's not like the old days where it was an elite top 6 but you still had the likes of Coventry and Bradford in the same league hoofing it long into the mixer on a diet of pints and baked beans on toast. It's not so easy to just expect to be in that top echelon anymore.
I think the more similar story is Man United, they have the same problem but they are far more similar to us with their joint, moronic owners, and decade + of short term, foolish decisions... the after effects of which they're stuck trying to escape from.
If you've been following along at home you'll know who they are. I'm not going to name them.
hank37w
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Come on let's be fair, they paid their 100 bucks and they're entitled to wreck the joint and do whatever they want, that's fair isn't it?
Jedi_Tiger
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PVL would just divide the South western Sydney up for juniors amongst dogs, roosters penrith souths parramatta etc
Jedi_Tiger
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the nrl would just fund the junior nursery,
at present magpies feed into nswrl competitions.
so hbg would keep funding junior leagues with no nrl team ? No way
nrl would take care of that funding, one less team to give a grant to
So Noyce wasn’t lying when he said we would be the Man Utd of the NRL. Little did we know that this was Man Utd coming down to our level
Not happening despite your fantasy
Jedi_Tiger
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we will see, nobody thought HBG would burn the place down in December and they did.
Too many teams in Sydney
Jolls
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Reminds me of a saying we have on our construction site: "Having (Denny) at work is like having two good blokes off sick!"
