HBG, Independent Directors Sacked

[tigahhh]

Pascoe/Lee H etc actually did a fair bit in growing the club financially, we were in total shambles before them.

what? the club was broke and running at a loss. they were lying about our membership numbers. we only turned a profit this year

 

[Tom Shines]

We need to split the board. half focused on football with Athletic minded people and half focused on growing the club. Pascoe/Lee H etc actually did a fair bit in growing the club financially, we were in total shambles before them.

Free Membership numbers went through the roof under their leadership …

the club was still losing money under them and the team was a shambles on the field and a joke in the media … I don’t think they improved anything …

 

[Bus 2 Terrigal]

Could the master plan be, to absolutely destroy the joint ✅sack any good around the place✅ set the club back even more than it already is ,and then sell .. laughing into the sunset ...it's not the Western Suburbs Magpies..who gives a f.uck kinda attitude

Yeah, but where does Roswell
and the little green men fit into all that 🤪🤪🤪

 

[You Know Who]

Scroll back and you’d find my theory as to why the video came down. I could be wrong, but it’s my theory 🤷‍♂️

Sure, a theory that conveniently portrays HBG as sensible and competent despite over a decade of evidence to the contrary. Which one do you think is a the more logical reason for removing the video:

It contains defamatory statements about the three independent directors who are threatening legal actions. Not to mention HBG just had to pay out one of their own former director, Rick Wayde.

Or

They're a bit embarrassed because the NRL is investigating Richo after one of their little stooges ran to the NRL IU at the most suspiciously convenient time.

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Scroll back and you’d find my theory as to why the video came down. I could be wrong, but it’s my theory 🤷‍♂️

Further highlights HBG poor decision making without due diligence and planning. Zero care for the Wests Tigers but only HBG.

The same statement they retracted talked about unity and strategy - something of which as the true leaders they claim to be, have yet shown.

Sack the independents, support statement for Richo, club statement generic, follow up statement with clear stance change on Richo, retract statement in less than a week.

They used the LO decision made months ago for a venue we have been at all our existence of the JV & in same statement mentioned Balmain will not be leaving the JV.

So it’s not the decision or lack of communication - they chose the excuse. They have lost the decision power they once had. Which was the point of independence and Richo agreeing to come onboard.

My theory is they lost the decision power & hate it - they freaked out and reacted. It also is evident as to timing - after no direct action, flip flopping and lack of constructive what next actions.

We will all have a view / theory.

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

I am a member at wests ashfield and i think they are actually quite incompetent. If you removed the pokies from the equation the rest of the place is very ordinary, more atmosphere and quality food and benverage at the local pub.

Was following another guy's lead and trying to find something nice to say about them but your experience is telling me they can't do anything right lol.

 

[Vicious]

Your attempts to present yourself as open-minded (despite all evidence to the contrary) are really quite adorable. You’ve already exposed yourself as another Magpie shill so you can drop the sad act.

But I guess this is one way of keeping yourself busy when you’re not dragging out the Super 8 film of the Magpies last premiership in 1953 so you do you, champ 👍

So in other words you have no answer to the questions in my previous post ?
The grand plan is Western Suburbs Magpies back in the NRL playing at Lidcombe Oval in front of 500 people with flying pigs at halftime and a circus tent out the back.
The NRL would fully endorse that.

 

[bptiger 0]

Fall out already , my son just told me he will not renew his membership, nor his wife and two kids , how many more will do this , nrl get this sorted asap

 

[You Know Who]

So in other words you have no answer to the questions in my previous post ?
The grand plan is Western Suburbs Magpies back in the NRL playing at Lidcombe Oval in front of 500 people with flying pigs at halftime and a circus tent out the back.

Oh I don’t have to. You’ve already been exposed as a moron who doesn’t know what he’s talking about by at least 4 different posters in this thread alone and dodges questions like the plagues. But if it makes you feel important amongst the other seniors here, you have at it, little buddy 😊

 

[mtd#2]

So in other words you have no answer to the questions in my previous post ?
The grand plan is Western Suburbs Magpies back in the NRL playing at Lidcombe Oval in front of 500 people with flying pigs at halftime and a circus tent out the back.
The NRL would fully endorse that.

This has the contradiction of the year
You've dodged direct questions all week!!!

 

[mtd#2]

Fall out already , my son just told me he will not renew his membership, nor his wife and two kids , how many more will do this , nrl get this sorted asap

Honesdly if I hadn't already renewed i probably wouldn't either, not with this shit going on

 

[HUNT 101]

I doubt they wanna sell… the money doesn’t go to the directors …

Fair enough f.uck that idea then 😵‍💫😂

 

[nrlsurvivor]

Could the master plan be, to absolutely destroy the joint ✅sack any good around the place✅ set the club back even more than it already is ,and then sell .. laughing into the sunset ...it's not the Western Suburbs Magpies..who gives a f.uck kinda attitude

My guess is that’s the plan. If Wests Tigers can perform poorly and remain a laughing stock for just 4 more years then they can justify a rebrand to Magpies in 2030.

 

[HUNT 101]

Yeah, but where does Roswell
and the little green men fit into all that 🤪🤪🤪

😵‍💫🙄😵‍💫

 

[You Know Who]

This has the contradiction of the year
You've dodged direct questions all week!!!

He’s too dumb to realise that, mate. Vicious is the reason they have to put instructions on shampoo bottles.

 

[weststigers]

I thought it was a very stock standard statement.
I’d say it was pulled because he mentioned Richo had their full support. Given developments that followed re’ the integrity unit investigation, HBG are sensibly watering down that position until more is known.

You'd be wrong.

 

[weststigers]

Is the site painfully slow for anyone else this morning?

Wrong thread

 

[mtd#2]

My guess is that’s the plan. If Wests Tigers can perform poorly and remain a laughing stock for just 4 more years then they can justify a rebrand to Magpies in 2030.

The club that was so successful pre merger? I doubt it

If anything I think there's merit to McArthur Wests taking over from Wests Ashfield. Cut the cancer out and we can move forward

 

[FacePalm]

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.


Wests Tigers board member Dennis Burgess

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.

 

[FacePalm]

Folks are finally becoming aware of who is big wig at Wests Magpies Pty Ltd, and the road block to NRL success.