HBG, Independent Directors Sacked

crazycat said:
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.
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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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actually starting to hope hbg will put me out of my misery , just not as a WestsTigers supporter , but a once was of league as well.
Game is a media toss pot, drooling for the next shoot down or overhype just around the corner
 
mtd#2 said:
I have no doubt the thought of this has sparked fear into the hearts of the owners given the sudden change of heart we are seeing from various personalities across social media platforms.

But it doesn't sound like there is actually any pressure (yet) from the NRL if it's up to members to force some sort of action...

Oddly enough, I think Bula holds the keys as to what happens next.
If he stays, most fans stay settled.
If he goes, good luck HBG... December is going to be a huge topic of conversation once again.
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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.
 
tiger_one said:
just as an aside, Tottenham Spurs (in the EPL) are not having their best of times as a club and fans there are questioning leadership via marches etc - here is their latest wish list which somewhat mirrors some of the feelings here:


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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.
 
Merlot said:
you keep referring to these personalities changing tact - why ,nrl is asleep this time of year .
who , care to name names lol .drop a hint or 2
It was plain to see earlier, just here , we all fall on our swords 1 day, kickin n squealing or happy for what you left behind
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If you've been following along at home you'll know who they are. I'm not going to name them.
 
hammertime said:
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, they use the term stewardship. How HBG directors even get called owners boggles my mind.

HBG directors are stewards, way more than Tottenham. They need to act like it.
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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?
 
Rock Hopper Steve said:
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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PVL would just divide the South western Sydney up for juniors amongst dogs, roosters penrith souths parramatta etc
 
innsaneink said:
Dont think he can ''just do that''

Juniors Id think wold come under NSWRL
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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
 
TIGERS said:
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.
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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
 
Rock Hopper Steve said:
I can't see PVL wanting to get rid of Wests Tigers, 400k of supporters is a lot of people to upset.
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Maybe but it makes very good sense for long term plans to get rid of a Sydney team and add another Brisbane and NZ team.

And the Dogs and Parra could easily fill any voids left by the Tigers.
 
Jedi_Tiger said:
would take it to 18 teams with png
19 with png
easy drop the Tigers and back to 18 no byes
gets rid of a sydney team
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I don't think this is without consideration.

ATM they want to add another team, either NZ or Brisbane to make twenty teams. If you got rid of a Sydney team you could add both.

It ain't gonna happen soon and here's hoping it doesn't.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
While there may be far bigger bullshitters in this place, I’m not sure if there are any that indulge in as many delusional hypotheticals as you
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And unpopular ones at that, why even suggest such a theory to have our team removed from the NRL, the thought of it just sucks big time.
 
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