It's time to take the fight back to HBG

[balmain boy]

I know some on here don't like it but the ONLY way we will ever improve as a club is to get Wests Ashfield to invest heavily in the Wests Tigers, or get them to sell the club

We continuously hire the worst talent available on and off the field because we simply can't afford to sign better options. Other clubs pay their staff more and these better staff deliver more positive outcomes for their club.

So the question is what can we do to get Wests Ashfield to open their wallets and invest in something that isn't a poker machine?

 

[Tom Shines]

I know some on here don't like it but the ONLY way we will ever improve as a club is to get Wests Ashfield to invest heavily in the Wests Tigers, or get them to sell the club

Do you see either option happening ? Certainly not the second

 

[balmain boy]

Do you see either option happening ? Certainly not the second

We'd need a strong media campaign. Journalists questioning why a supposed not for profit invests practically nothing into their core responsibility to the community as per their charter, and are instead allowed to invest purely on pokies, which don't see the community.

There are stories there and we know the media lives to throw our name around for clickbait, but this would genuinely receive massive engagement from not only Tigers fans but footy favs in general.

Who knows, maybe then a white knight will make them an offer they can't refuse

 

[jadtiger]

We'd need a strong media campaign. Journalists questioning why a supposed not for profit invests practically nothing into their core responsibility to the community as per their charter, and are instead allowed to invest purely on pokies, which don't see the community.

There are stories there and we know the media lives to throw our name around for clickbait, but this would genuinely receive massive engagement from not only Tigers fans but footy favs in general.

Who knows, maybe then a white knight will make them an offer they can't refuse

I would rather Don Corleone "make them an offer they can't refuse" and suffer the consequences when HBG refuses.(joke)

 

[Tom Shines]

We'd need a strong media campaign. Journalists questioning why a supposed not for profit invests practically nothing into their core responsibility to the community as per their charter, and are instead allowed to invest purely on pokies, which don't see the community.

There are stories there and we know the media lives to throw our name around for clickbait, but this would genuinely receive massive engagement from not only Tigers fans but footy favs in general.

Who knows, maybe then a white knight will make them an offer they can't refuse

They won’t agree to it ( sale ) , because the money for the sale of the club doesn’t go to them …and they enjoy the status it brings otherwise …

They would need to be made to do it ..by either the NRL or Govt …

 

[balmain boy]

They won’t agree to it ( sale ) , because the money for the sale of the club doesn’t go to them …and they enjoy the status it brings otherwise …

They would need to be made to do it ..by either the NRL or Govt …

Why wouldn't they get the money? Only if the NRL strips them off their license would they not get most of the money. Souths get the money when they're new owners buy and sell their ownership shares in the bunnies

 

[balmain boy]

What's especially sad, in our current set-up HBG don't even fund the Wests Magpies junior rep sides!!!! The actual teams running around with the Wests Magpies branding all (presumably) because they are based out of Campbelltown HBG have zero interest in them.

Wests Tigers funds our Wests Magpies junior rep sides.
Wests Ashfield funds the Balmain junior rep sides (it is their geographic area at least)
Wests MacArthur fund the Wests MacArthur sides.

How can the likes of @Vicious defend owners like that?

HBG do not care about footy. They care about Pokies at the leagues club and getting a free sausage sandwich at Lidcombe Oval as often as possible.

Wests Tigers don't have the revenue to cover junior rep sides but have to cover the void because no one else will. At least it gives us some control over our best juniors I guess.

I'm curious @Vicious

You never responded to my question. How do you feel about Wests Ashfield refusing to invest a dollar in the Wests Magpies junior reps and leagues?

 

[Tom Shines]

Why wouldn't they get the money? Only if the NRL strips them off their license would they not get most of the money. Souths get the money when they're new owners buy and sell their ownership shares in the bunnies

lol ..you think the money is getting put in their personal bank accounts ? What good to them is the money going to the club? I’m sure there is plenty already there .

 

[balmain boy]

lol ..you think the money is getting put in their personal bank accounts ? What good to them is the money going to the club? I’m sure there is plenty already there .

Where exactly do you think the money goes?

 

[Vicious]

Where exactly do you think the money goes?

To far too many people who are not very good at their jobs.
I am not including Shaun Miekekamp in this as once he was thrown in the hot seat, I don’t think he had much say or much choice other than tj extend Benji at the time, but now our season has once again deteriorated and once again shown up many glaring weaknesses, he will need to soon start making many tough decisions.

 

[Tom Shines]

Where exactly do you think the money goes?

Not in their pockets

 

[Tom Shines]

To far too many people who are not very good at their jobs.
I am not including Shaun Miekekamp in this as once he was thrown in the hot seat, I don’t think he had much say or much choice other than tj extend Benji at the time, but now our season has once again deteriorated and once again shown up many glaring weaknesses, he will need to soon start making many tough decisions.

He is talking about the money for the potential sale of the club 😂

 

[balmain boy]

Not in their pockets

Who's pockets?

You think people sell things and don't get to keep the money??

 

[Tom Shines]

Who's pockets?

You think people sell things and don't get to keep the money??

not unless they own them ..

Your funny 😂

 

[Telltails]

not unless they own them ..

Your funny 😂

Yep you have people in positions of power and privilege.who have no personal investment in the club and are only answerable to themselves. They gain nothing personally from selling it but lose control of the entitlements that come with the position.

 

[Tom Shines]

Yep you have people in positions of power and privilege.who have no personal investment in the club and are only answerable to themselves. They gain nothing personally from selling it but lose control of the entitlements that come with the position.

If they actually got to keep the money themselves … it would have been sold back when it was worth $500k

 

[weststigers]

not unless they own them ..

Your funny 😂

Yes correct...but it's the dictatorship that has value to these people.