Breaking news: HBG takeover

This was yesterday's take on the situation by the SMH -

The views of O’Farrell were echoed on Tuesday morning by Gary Barnier, the co-author of a 2023 report on the Wests Tigers’ governance which led the Holman Barnes Group to recruit the four independent board members in January this year.

Barnier called on the game to put in place an administrator “to protect the NRL’s ambition to be a global game”.

“This behaviour is not consistent with that, in my view,” Barnier told this masthead. “I don’t say it lightly, I say it because of my concern that this will disrupt Wests Tigers so fundamentally that it will put them back for another decade.

“As a distant observer, it seems to me there is a continued desire to bring back Wests Magpies at all costs, including the destruction of Wests Tigers if necessary.”

www.smh.com.au

‘We’re going to protect Wests Tigers fans’: NRL to launch probe into boardroom bloodbath

ARLC chairman Peter V’landys has heeded calls for the NRL to intervene following the latest dramas at the embattled joint-venture outfit.
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‘It seems to me there is a continued desire to bring back Wests Magpies at all costs, including the destruction of Wests Tigers if necessary.’

Barnier-Crawford report co-author Gary Barnier
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BAGNF05 said:
And how did that work out? Only way forward is to leave the past behind in this situation.
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You’re being opportunistic. BOF getting the flick has nothing to do with his Tigers sympathies. The other 3 independents got flicked too and, as far as I’m aware none of them were old Tigers supporters.
 
coivtny said:
Disagree strongly. Pearce would transcend that. You don’t discount good people because of their background. If you are correct why on earth did they make BOF chair. He was a dyed in the wool Tigers supporter.
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BOF was a big bears supporter and jumped to the Tigers when the Bears were chopped
 
hammertime said:
It's 4 people they had to contact. They even had their CEO make the announcement, with the board hiding in the shadows again. Weak-ass human beings, acting like weak, amateurish leaders.
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Yeah it’s ordinary … nothing new there …

Yossarian said:
I reckon he’s working things behind the scenes including at NRL GQ
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He has known PVL a while … the longer he stays the longer he can get in his ear about how to proceed
 
coivtny said:
You’re being opportunistic. BOF getting the flick has nothing to do with his Tigers sympathies. The other 3 independents got flicked too and, as far as I’m aware none of them were old Tigers supporters.
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Let me know when you find out a valid reason for all this cos it sure looks like another HBG f$&k up to me.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
I’m pretty sure we made a big play for Gus to be our inaugural coach. But can’t complain too much, cos we ended up with Sheens and climbed the mountain. It’s a crime that we didn’t build on that.
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The crime was the initial set up and poor quality of human being recruited under the initial set up. Pearce was still running around with his footy shorts mentality with no real clue about culture.Sheens was handed a rabble and thankfully arrived when our own kids came through
 
hammertime said:
I think he is gathering facts.

The board members even had to find out from Carayannis - how piss poor is that. So I'm guessing Richo was in the dark on this one too.

Plus, he has an employment contract, unlike the board.
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Speaking of Contracts, if I were Charlie Viola, the ex Independent Board member and owner of PepperMoney the major sponsor of the WTs, I'd be fine tooth combing the sponsorship deal to see if the get-out clauses are covered by this nonsense from HBG.
 
The_Patriot said:
In my opinion Wayne Pearce as great a player he was started this whole rot. He was not equipped to manage a roster and recruit players. Set us back decades.

And that's from an old Balmain fan.
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Totally agree, he was a terrible coach but it’s a bit tough saying he started this whole rot. He coached in 2000 and we won the comp in 2005.
 
coivtny said:
Totally agree, he was a terrible coach but it’s a bit tough saying he started this whole rot. He coached in 2000 and we won the comp in 2005.
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With barely a member of the original set up remaining. And every outer club recruit he brought in being a disappointment. He stated it
 
BAGNF05 said:
Let me know when you find out a valid reason for all this cos it sure looks like another HBG f$&k up to me.
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I truly don’t get your point. What on earth are you disagreeing with now. Do you think I support HBG or I’m an apologist for their actions this week. If not, your post had me flummoxed.
 
Tom Shines said:
Ok,,, I’m not so sure ..I’ll have to wait and see ,,,they have the same issue with HBG itself who actually run licensed clubs … if they allow that to operate ,then why worry about a football team ?
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They made the decision to sack the independent directors as actions they undertook serving as a board for a licenced business...the actions don't have to be related to outcomes within the licenced premises...rather it is related to the potential incompetence of the board or decision making from them that is not in keeping with the wishes of a majority of their members.....it will come to nothing in my opinion as liquor and gaming are very bureaucratic and this is a very ambiguous area.
 
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