LiamFulton
Active member
who's holding MP in high regard?
It's time to take the fight back to HBG
- Thread starter balmain boy
- Start date
Plenty of reasons, but name dropping does not help.
Stop living in the past and move forward with the future.
I am not expecting a successful 2027 due to us still having a sub standard playing roster, hoping we make improvements for 2028.
Pringle Gold
Well-known member
Richardson secured record sponsorship deals that SM crows about, increased game attendance, increased merchandise sales, increased membership sales, developed a strategic plan which correctly identified the South west corridor as a growth area, began earnest engagement with the south west, started to develop an identity, improved the playing roster, incrementally improved our win-loss ratio, secured upgrades to Campbelltown and Leichhardt and locked in a stadium deal to bring in more revenue for the club.
On top of that our comms and marketing was great and the leaks stopped.
What’s SM ever done apart from organise the Vegas trip or spout connectedness when it was clear the team was so disconnected to the point AD threw a tantrum and refused to take play.
mtd#2
Well-known member
Who is the future? The 90% owners of the club have pushed aside the CEO who has been in the role 12 months. You can tell us how amazing shaun is until the cows come home but the reality he is no safer than Daniel Paton.
Whenever you get pressed on anything its "worry about the future forget the past"..
cochise
Well-known member
All I can really suggest is now is the time all Wests Tigers fans should join HBG.
If you have already been a member for 3 years apply for general membership.
If you have already been a member for 3 years apply for general membership.
LeichhardtTiger
Well-known member
Something bothers about this mess. A while back there was a story about how HBG was getting involved in the Central Coast Mariners Women's Soccer team , catering, events etc. In yesterday's article there it was again - a mention of the CCM relationship. This matter may have nothing to do with Wests Tigers folks. Maybe the CCM deal was not kosher?
wstigers11
Well-known member
He was the one parading the most at Mariner stuff
LeichhardtTiger
Well-known member
Sowing the seeds for a move to the Coast?
BlackWhiteGold
Well-known member
An update to the Tele article:
It’s understood Holman Barnes Group chairman Dennis Burgess was influential in the stepping aside of Paton.
This guy just can't resist axing people. Power tripper amongst other things me thinks.
Rock Hopper Steve
Well-known member
The guy's a chameleon, he doesn't look smart enough to be a smiling assassin but here we are right on off season cue.
Surely with the court drama and now this something has to give, will be very surprised if something favourable doesn't happen from this, it's coming to a head.
king_sirro
Well-known member
I dont think its coming to a head at all. It never will.
What pissed him off this time wonder if it was the nathan thing
Rock Hopper Steve
Well-known member
That's not what I want to here mate, you just popped the balloon of hope.
Last edited:
Us poor plebs can only hope something good comes out of the continued fiasco that is HBG governance,they need to removed from our club and the quicker the better.
mtd#2
Well-known member
Can you elaborate. I didnt think there was much point as they could control who voted still?.
BlackWhiteGold
Well-known member
Latest story on SMH points to that head could be coming.
The NRL may consider stepping in and potentially even taking the Wests Tigers’ licence off their controversy-plagued owners after fresh board chaos this week.
NRL could strip licence from Wests Tigers’ owners after fresh board ructions
The NRL may consider stepping in after the CEO of the club’s controversy-plagued owners, the Holman Barnes Group, was abruptly stood down this week.
You Know Who
Well-known member
What a moronic thing to claim with all the evidence to the contrary available about Richo.
But that’s no surprise with the other garbage you’ve been spewing on here.
BlackWhiteGold
Well-known member
Full article:
The NRL may consider stepping in and potentially even taking the Wests Tigers’ licence off their controversy-plagued owners after fresh board chaos this week.
The Holman Barnes Group, the Tigers’ majority stakeholder, is again in turmoil after chief executive Daniel Paton stood down pending an investigation in mysterious circumstances.
Daniel Paton, chief executive of the Holman Barnes Group, was abruptly stood down at a board meeting on Wednesday night.
Paton, who is a Tigers director, was abruptly placed on leave following an emergency board meeting at the club’s Wests Ashfield base on Wednesday night.
It’s understood Paton was made to wait in the corridor outside the meeting room as HBG chairman Dennis Burgess arrived with a lawyer and told fellow board members that allegations had been made against the CEO.
The claims were not shared in the meeting, leading two HBG directors to abstain from a vote to stand Paton aside. It’s believed Paton has also not been made aware of the nature of the allegations against him.
HBG and Paton were contacted for comment.
Wests Tigers had another forgettable season the field in 2026, finishing 15th.Getty Images
Remove ads
The development is the latest in several years of turbulence at the $100 million licensed club operation, which has a 90 per cent share in the Tigers and has the balance of power on the joint-venture’s board.
The bloodletting and dysfunction has now reached a level where the NRL may contemplate intervening.
At the extreme end of possibilities, it could weigh up stripping HBG of its licence to run an NRL team.
Whether it gets that far remains to be seen, but there is a growing belief that something needs to be done about the Tigers’ ownership.
HBG is effectively the Western Suburbs side of the merged entity that was formed in 1999 between Balmain and the Magpies.
It is rich with poker machine takings but amid interminable infighting it has overseen an NRL team that has not made a finals series for 15 years and rarely threatened to.
The Tigers are run separately to HBG, but far from being immune to the travails of the leagues club, they are inextricably linked to it.
It has the numbers to call the shots on the Tigers board after dispensing with the notion of an independent-run board last year less than 12 months after it had been put in place.
That episode cost the Tigers their seasoned CEO Shane Richardson, who resigned only 18 months into a four-year contract.
Just days after HBG reclaimed control at the Tigers, coach Benji Marshall was re-signed for three additional seasons until the end of 2030, reportedly without provisions that allow the club to part ways with him without a full payout.
While the Tigers still have faith in Marshall’s ability to return them to the top eight, it has left them facing the prospect of a multi-million dollar settlement with him should their fortunes not improve and they decide to replace him.
Behind the scenes at HBG, there is friction about the organisation’s shift into soccer, in particular its backing of the A-League’s Central Coast Mariners.
It effectively rescued the Mariners’ women’s side from oblivion after they were left out of a club takeover by the group behind English soccer’s Queens Park Rangers.
However, the spending of HBG resources on another code has angered Magpies loyalists, who believe it is money that should be directed towards Wests and rugby league.
HBG also bought a stake in APIA Leichhardt FC and soccer administrator Frank Primerano has become a leading voice as deputy chairman and a Tigers board member.
The conflict at HBG could be played out in the NSW Supreme Court in coming months after ousted director and former Tigers board member Tony Andreacchio and his wife Denise launched legal action three weeks ago.
The NRL may consider stepping in and potentially even taking the Wests Tigers’ licence off their controversy-plagued owners after fresh board chaos this week.
The Holman Barnes Group, the Tigers’ majority stakeholder, is again in turmoil after chief executive Daniel Paton stood down pending an investigation in mysterious circumstances.
Daniel Paton, chief executive of the Holman Barnes Group, was abruptly stood down at a board meeting on Wednesday night.
Paton, who is a Tigers director, was abruptly placed on leave following an emergency board meeting at the club’s Wests Ashfield base on Wednesday night.
It’s understood Paton was made to wait in the corridor outside the meeting room as HBG chairman Dennis Burgess arrived with a lawyer and told fellow board members that allegations had been made against the CEO.
The claims were not shared in the meeting, leading two HBG directors to abstain from a vote to stand Paton aside. It’s believed Paton has also not been made aware of the nature of the allegations against him.
HBG and Paton were contacted for comment.
Wests Tigers had another forgettable season the field in 2026, finishing 15th.Getty Images
Remove ads
The development is the latest in several years of turbulence at the $100 million licensed club operation, which has a 90 per cent share in the Tigers and has the balance of power on the joint-venture’s board.
The bloodletting and dysfunction has now reached a level where the NRL may contemplate intervening.
At the extreme end of possibilities, it could weigh up stripping HBG of its licence to run an NRL team.
Whether it gets that far remains to be seen, but there is a growing belief that something needs to be done about the Tigers’ ownership.
HBG is effectively the Western Suburbs side of the merged entity that was formed in 1999 between Balmain and the Magpies.
It is rich with poker machine takings but amid interminable infighting it has overseen an NRL team that has not made a finals series for 15 years and rarely threatened to.
The Tigers are run separately to HBG, but far from being immune to the travails of the leagues club, they are inextricably linked to it.
It has the numbers to call the shots on the Tigers board after dispensing with the notion of an independent-run board last year less than 12 months after it had been put in place.
That episode cost the Tigers their seasoned CEO Shane Richardson, who resigned only 18 months into a four-year contract.
Just days after HBG reclaimed control at the Tigers, coach Benji Marshall was re-signed for three additional seasons until the end of 2030, reportedly without provisions that allow the club to part ways with him without a full payout.
While the Tigers still have faith in Marshall’s ability to return them to the top eight, it has left them facing the prospect of a multi-million dollar settlement with him should their fortunes not improve and they decide to replace him.
Behind the scenes at HBG, there is friction about the organisation’s shift into soccer, in particular its backing of the A-League’s Central Coast Mariners.
Court bid launched to blow up Wests Tigers power base
Paton, who was HBG’s chief financial officer for nine years before becoming CEO in August 2025, was the driving force behind the deal, under which it has assumed the reins of the Mariners’ women’s team and become a minority investor in the men’s side.It effectively rescued the Mariners’ women’s side from oblivion after they were left out of a club takeover by the group behind English soccer’s Queens Park Rangers.
However, the spending of HBG resources on another code has angered Magpies loyalists, who believe it is money that should be directed towards Wests and rugby league.
HBG also bought a stake in APIA Leichhardt FC and soccer administrator Frank Primerano has become a leading voice as deputy chairman and a Tigers board member.
The conflict at HBG could be played out in the NSW Supreme Court in coming months after ousted director and former Tigers board member Tony Andreacchio and his wife Denise launched legal action three weeks ago.
wstigers11
Well-known member
PLEASEEEEEE DO ITLatest story on SMH points to that head could be coming.
The NRL may consider stepping in and potentially even taking the Wests Tigers’ licence off their controversy-plagued owners after fresh board chaos this week.
NRL could strip licence from Wests Tigers’ owners after fresh board ructions
The NRL may consider stepping in after the CEO of the club’s controversy-plagued owners, the Holman Barnes Group, was abruptly stood down this week.www.smh.com.au
You Know Who
Well-known member
Expecting @Vicious to show any spine or integrity when he has neither 😂
So on this forum, you can slander a man and his family with verifiable lies and the. pretend like it never happened without getting a ban…. but calling out the parasite that made the claims gets you a warning or a deleted post. Unbelievable
