It's time to take the fight back to HBG

[liltiger]

Playing the devil's advocate here but..

Why should RL be their main project?
It's their money and they can choose to spend it on Leichardt, Central Coast, campbelltown wherever and whichever community sport they want. It doesn't have to be Wests Tigers

i may be completely wrong though i think that its in their constitution / charter that they fund the rugby league team and surrounding disctricts rugby leagues teams. If so then rugby league is their sole purpose for existing as a not for profit club. Theyre sole reason is as a not for profit to generate revenue to then be pumped right back into the community in Rugby League. Im more than happy to be corrected though.

 

[innsaneink]

Yeah, i don't think we should link this to being as a magpies thing. Balmain are equally to blame.

Take your pick - skills, ego, governance, aptitude, structural, experience .... But calling it a Wests problem will completely mischaracterise it.

The Magpies footy team have long also been a victim of this BS long before the JV

 

[innsaneink]

I started the post with that there are Wests elements within HBG, of course there is. I wasn't suggesting otherwise as HBG is merely the repackaged body of Wests Ashfield and a couple of small former Balmain venues.

The infighting at the top smacks to me of plain old politicking where people just want to hang on to power and preserve the system that gets them there. Andreacchio was a director of WSDRLFC so he is a Wests man as well, and he got knifed by other Wests aligned interests. A bit of "Wests on Wests" violence if you will.

This is what I mean to say when I say it's not a Balmain v Wests or WT v Wests thing. It appears to me that there's a power consolidation within HBG and certain interests are trying to maintain that system that allows them to get there and stay there. This is an issue within HBG and WT being affected is incidental as they are owned by HBG.

Re-reading my post I've misworded WA being "previously" Wests aligned, they obviously still are aligned with/towards the interests of WSDRLFC, but it is no longer their sole focus as they also have WT as a going concern.

Its been going on for over 5 decades

 

[cochise]

Deadset closed cartel

Yes, I know of people who have had their general membership rejected.

 

[innsaneink]

The Leagues Club and Football Club should be 'one'. They soley operate to help and suppport each other.

In other words the Leagues club exists becuase of the Football club, not the other way around.

I wonder if this has always been the case with the Magpies and their leagues club, could have this been a big reason why they were so crap for so long? Or has been only since the Wests Tigers existed?

The Bulldogs example just shows how strong the football club is compared to the Leagues club. The football club can allocate 4 of the 7 positions on the Leagues Club board, this is so far removed for the Wests Tigers.

From AI

• Football Club Appointees: The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Football Club has the perpetual right to directly appoint four (4) of the seven (7) directors on the Canterbury Leagues Club board.
• Leagues Club Member Voting: The remaining three (3) positions on the Canterbury Leagues Club board are voted on by eligible members of the Leagues Club itself.

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