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Brent Read: Inside the Wests Tigers implosion and the man pulling the strings​

It’s official, the Wests Tigers are a disaster. After imploding following a season of great promise they no longer deserve any column inches devoted to them, writes BRENT READ.

I can’t claim to be a Wests Tigers fan but I have drunk the club’s Koolaid on a few occasions in recent years. Even suggested they would be finals contenders a year or two back.
That column didn’t age well. Not sure this one will either because I am putting a line through the club. After this week, this column will become a Tigers-free zone.
They no longer deserve any column inches devoted to them given the way they have imploded after a season of great promise. The Tigers are a disaster zone.
They have gone a decade without finals and if their behaviour off the field is any indication, that may be the least of their problems.

This is a club that has mastered the art of taking two steps forward and three steps back steps back. Self-sabotage is now in their DNA. It seeps out of the woodwork at Concord Oval. Mediocrity barely does it justice.
Coach Benji Marshall must be pulling his hair out. This is a guy who made a career out of being brilliant. The Tigers were a force on his watch. Now, despite his best efforts, they are a joke thanks to their antics off the field.

Remarkably, the most powerful man at the Tigers right now – on paper at least – is a former bass guitarist for Aussie pop band The Masters Apprentices. According to Wikipedia, Dennis Burgess – better known as Denny – played with the band for one year in 1972.
He also played for The Throb and The Whispers – good luck if you remember them – and has been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
Got an OAM a couple of years back as well for his services to performing arts and the musical industry. When it comes to music, Denny is Aussie royalty.
As far as rugby league is concerned, from what we have seen so far, Denny appears to make a good bass guitarist. Yet here he is, the man in the hottest seat as the Wests Tigers lurch from one crisis to the next.

Most Tigers fans wouldn’t know him from a bar of soap. It seems like a stunning rise but in actual fact, it has been a slow and steady ascent. Burgess has been in and around the game for a long time.
He started as a director at Wests Ashfield Leagues Club in 2000 and the Western Suburbs Magpies in 2004. He has been a director at the Tigers since 2007, serving on the board on an intermittent basis.
He has been there for many of the big decisions of the club for nearly two decades. Truth be told, the Tigers have been a disaster for much of his watch. Just when they looked to be turning things around, Denny and his fellow Holman Barnes Group board decided to blow the joint up.
One of the suggestions has been that he and his fellow HBG directors want to revive the Western Suburbs Magpies at the expense of the Tigers. Again, take a look at his social media account and you quickly realise that the Magpies are Denny’s first love.

Pictures of him in Tigers apparel are few and far between, which only serves to heighten the view that the Magpies are flexing their muscles.
When it comes to social media, among the 4572 pages his Instagram account follows are more than 200 adult content creators.
While some of the people his account follows may be a bit loose, let he who is without fault cast the first stone, I say. Occasionally we all stray off into areas we probably shouldn’t.
Denny was asked for comment about his personal choices by this column but didn’t respond. That said, this column didn’t start out as a personal attack on Burgess and it won’t end there either.
It does rightly ask the question about how he seems to be pulling such powerful strings at the club and whether Tigers fans should be concerned.
According to people close to the club, Burgess is no puppet. He doesn’t say a lot but he knows who to work a backroom. He may not get around in Tigers clobber but he is a visible presence at their games, shuffling in and out of the dressing room after matches and keeping largely to himself.
We’re told he can be ruthless when he needs to be. We have seen that this week as Holman Barnes Group have turned the Tigers on their head. Their fans are up in arms. The NRL is pulling its hair out.
The Tigers are one of the game’s sleeping giants but they have been comatosed for an eternity. This column – and so many of their supporters – have had enough.
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You Know Who said:
He’s so mad he’s getting ready to tell everyone about that time he managed 1300 people while simultaneously winning the war in the Pacific single-handedly
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Very disrespectful, yet another know all on this forum.
We must have some of the smartest supporters on the planet, knowing all the answers before the facts have been presented.
 
crazycat said:
When I am old,

Damn right I am going to be Problematic!
Cmon it's the one good thing about being old. Those Aquard questions that turn everyone silent.
The "dad, you can't say that here".

Stuff that. Man if I am going to die at any time. I am going to say the most embarrissing crap and enjoy watching people squirm!!!



#PPS this also doubles as my nomination to the Wests Tigers board of Directors.
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Mate i am so close to being problematic that it hurts
 
Batmans Parents said:
No it is not “evident on both sides”. The BS claim by Paton about not HBG being consulted on WT board decisions does not stand up to scrutiny considering the fact that HBG has two representatives who, by all accounts, were in attendance at all meetings.

As for the BS today about Richo? He declared a conflict of interest almost immediately and no issues were raised until after HBG launched their coup on the WT board. An “anonymous” whistleblower just happens to make a report to the NRL at the same time HBG sack all the independent directors and Richo may be due for a two year payout if he resigns as CEO? Because that’s not suspicious or conveniently timed at all lol

Let’s use a bit of critical thinking, please.
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BP - As for the BS today about Richo? He declared a conflict of interest almost immediately and no issues were raised until after HBG launched their coup on the WT board.

Me - Impropriety​


An “anonymous” whistleblower just happens to make a report to the NRL at the same time HBG sack all the independent directors and Richo may be due for a two year payout if he resigns as CEO?

Me- Impropriety​


Because that’s not suspicious or conveniently timed at all lol

Let’s use a bit of critical thinking, please.

I'm on your side mate, but it doesn't look good for Shane and his son.
 
innsaneink said:
Do you think in not aware of the gravity of the situation?

Did you miss the bit where i said too many are jumping to all sorts of conclusions...ie shadows

People are talking about merging with brisbane tigers, perth bears, worried itll be the balmain bulldogs... going off 3/4 cocked...its a bit extreme

Good onya for spreading the word
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Yes...this type of rhetoric is not only stupid it is unfounded.

The NRL will not strip HBG of the licence and suddenly hand it to the Fiji Flyers or whatever other thing people have jn their mind.

Either we get the status quo as it is today or the move to force a sale to new owners.

Either way, the Wests Tigers will continue. 2030 becomes interesting if HBG maintain ownership because the heritage agreement expires meaning they have no obligation to maintain the agreed heritage set forth at the time of the merger.
 
Leck said:
BP - As for the BS today about Richo? He declared a conflict of interest almost immediately and no issues were raised until after HBG launched their coup on the WT board.

Me - Impropriety​


An “anonymous” whistleblower just happens to make a report to the NRL at the same time HBG sack all the independent directors and Richo may be due for a two year payout if he resigns as CEO?

Me- Impropriety​


Because that’s not suspicious or conveniently timed at all lol

Let’s use a bit of critical thinking, please.

I'm on your side mate, but it doesn't look good for Shane and his son.
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Bad for Richo equals Bad for us Fans

Just see the evidence of he past 2 years.
 
weststigers said:
Yes...this type of rhetoric is not only stupid it is unfounded.

The NRL will not strip HBG of the licence and suddenly hand it to the Fiji Flyers or whatever other thing people have jn their mind.

Either we get the status quo as it is today or the move to force a sale to new owners.

Either way, the Wests Tigers will continue. 2030 becomes interesting if HBG maintain ownership because the heritage agreement expires meaning they have no obligation to maintain the agreed heritage set forth at the time of the merger.
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This imo is the end game, they are positioning themselves now to consolidate in preparation. They have 3 more years they can prepare. I believe the N.R.L will refuse anything other than the Wests Tigers, but iv no doubt HBG are going to give it a white hot crack.
 
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