Julie Romero

I've written to liquor and gaming. It will probably do nothing, but they're the only ones who have the power to do something. Worth a try. This can't keep going on.

If anyone else is up for it, give it a go.
 
Can you post a link @TIGERS

I don't have the actual doco, but it does exist.

 
Review from 2005.

The Comeback Kings
Directed by Joel Peterson
Rated M
Valhalla Glebe, Chauvel Paddington


The chances are you won't remember them from such high points as Colin being the drummer in the Masters Apprentices, and for a few minutes the first drummer in AC/DC, and Denny being the wild man bass player in Throb, and for their last minutes, the bass player in Masters Apprentices.

But, having lived through nearly 40 years of playing music and now being weathered to the point of wreckage, they're defiantly hanging on to not just the hair (Denny in beyond-bleached blond; Colin with a poodle perm of heroic proportions) and the clothes (black leather or fire-engine red pants, broad checks and enough glitter to inspire Cher) but also the very idea of rock'n'roll which sent them on to the stage in the first place.

Playing music isn't just what they do - they readily admit they can't really do anything else - it's who they are: the defining element of their lives. Whether playing to several thousand screaming teenagers in the late '60s or before barely a dozen bored retirees sipping shandies in a suburban bowling club 35 years later, a gig is a gig is a stepping stone to another gig.

It's why they really do believe that a career resurrection is at hand with just a bit of luck and timing, despite the music industry's complete indifference; that their self-financed new single and album could be a hit, despite its barely amateur hour quality; and that they can fill the 1000-body capacity Metro they've hired to launch the records, despite pulling eight paying customers to the warm-up show in Muswellbrook.


It should be pathetic: a This Is Spinal Tap without the irony, a Sunset Boulevard without the drama. Throw in a serious car accident, which nearly killed Colin and left him dependent on painkillers to even move, and Denny's quixotic tilt at a seat on the board of his favourite football club at the same time that his wife is expecting their first baby, and the pathos almost slips into bathos.

But Joel Peterson's low-budget film swerves these obstacles thanks to the unflagging enthusiasm and unfeigned optimism of the Burgess brothers, to whom it has never occurred to ask for sympathy and whom you quickly come to like, and a witty voiceover from James Valentine, which is not afraid to affectionately mock occasionally.

The obstacle The Comeback Kings can't completely avoid is the feeling that we're watching a good Australian Story episode stretched too long and too thinly. It looks like videotape and feels like television, and the diversion to Denny's footy club threatens to derail the film's momentum.

But then you suspect there'd be something wrong with anything too slick and impersonally perfect around the garnets in the rough who are the Burgess brothers.
 
Review from 2005.

The Comeback Kings
Directed by Joel Peterson
Rated M
Valhalla Glebe, Chauvel Paddington


The chances are you won't remember them from such high points as Colin being the drummer in the Masters Apprentices, and for a few minutes the first drummer in AC/DC, and Denny being the wild man bass player in Throb, and for their last minutes, the bass player in Masters Apprentices.

But, having lived through nearly 40 years of playing music and now being weathered to the point of wreckage, they're defiantly hanging on to not just the hair (Denny in beyond-bleached blond; Colin with a poodle perm of heroic proportions) and the clothes (black leather or fire-engine red pants, broad checks and enough glitter to inspire Cher) but also the very idea of rock'n'roll which sent them on to the stage in the first place.

Playing music isn't just what they do - they readily admit they can't really do anything else - it's who they are: the defining element of their lives. Whether playing to several thousand screaming teenagers in the late '60s or before barely a dozen bored retirees sipping shandies in a suburban bowling club 35 years later, a gig is a gig is a stepping stone to another gig.

It's why they really do believe that a career resurrection is at hand with just a bit of luck and timing, despite the music industry's complete indifference; that their self-financed new single and album could be a hit, despite its barely amateur hour quality; and that they can fill the 1000-body capacity Metro they've hired to launch the records, despite pulling eight paying customers to the warm-up show in Muswellbrook.


It should be pathetic: a This Is Spinal Tap without the irony, a Sunset Boulevard without the drama. Throw in a serious car accident, which nearly killed Colin and left him dependent on painkillers to even move, and Denny's quixotic tilt at a seat on the board of his favourite football club at the same time that his wife is expecting their first baby, and the pathos almost slips into bathos.

But Joel Peterson's low-budget film swerves these obstacles thanks to the unflagging enthusiasm and unfeigned optimism of the Burgess brothers, to whom it has never occurred to ask for sympathy and whom you quickly come to like, and a witty voiceover from James Valentine, which is not afraid to affectionately mock occasionally.

The obstacle The Comeback Kings can't completely avoid is the feeling that we're watching a good Australian Story episode stretched too long and too thinly. It looks like videotape and feels like television, and the diversion to Denny's footy club threatens to derail the film's momentum.

But then you suspect there'd be something wrong with anything too slick and impersonally perfect around the garnets in the rough who are the Burgess brothers.
So how did the come back go? Denny?

He’s gotta read the forum.
 
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A member of the beleaguered owners of the Wests Tigers has hit out at colleagues in a fiery email, accusing one of the Holman Barnes Group debenture holders of leaking information about the eight-year suspension of a board member.
This masthead has obtained an email from Clare Burgess to her fellow debenture holders, sent in the wake of this masthead revealing that former Holman Barnes Group chair Julie Romero had become the fourth person to be suspended by the board.

Burgess – whose husband Dennis is the current chair of Holman Barnes – said she could not “express my disgust” to the person who leaked news of Romero’s departure.

“For whatever sick and feeble gain they might seek to find from doing it, just shows what a pathetic person you must be,” Burgess wrote to her fellow debenture holders on Wednesday night.

Clare and Dennis Burgess. Picture: Facebook


“Most of you will share this opinion I’m sure, but the guilty party has just lost all respect and all integrity and should shrink from sight and forever blush with shame.

“On top of that, you should be reminded that we all sign and commit to a Confidentiality Agreement as Debenture Holders. So, if moral code and fortitude don’t work for you, legal document should. Some people obviously think they can manipulate everything. How hollow is that belief.”

Burgess also expressed concern for Romero’s wellbeing.

Romero spent 13 months as chair of the Holman Barnes Group before she was deposed in April. She was suspended for eight years for what the club described as “a serious breach of confidentiality”.

The debenture system consists of 20 people and, from within, five people are elected to sit on the seven-person Holman Barnes Group board. That means the 20 debenture holders have significant influence on the running of the club.

Four new debenture holders were appointed recently, including ex-Magpies Allan Fallah, Leo Epifania and Magpies board member Bob Cairns. APIA Leichhardt president Tony Raciti was also appointed.

Wests Ashfield recently announced an equity stake in APIA. Wests APIA FC will enter the new Australian Championship competition,

The debenture agreement was launched in 1955 as part of the formation of Wests Ashfield Leagues Club to assist with the running of the Western Suburbs Magpies. The debenture system has remained even through the many changes which have occurred in the past 70 years, including a merger with Balmain.

It costs just $100 to join the elite group.

Chair of the Holman Barnes Group board, Julie Romero. Pic Supplied.


Holman Barnes own 90 per cent of the Wests Tigers.

Rick Yabsley and Frank Primerano were appointed to the Holman Barnes board in May as non-debenture holders.

Romero was the fourth board member suspended by the Holman Barnes Group. Rick Wayde, Tony Andreacchio and David Gilbert were sensationally banned on New Year’s Eve. Wayde is taking legal action against his own eight year ban with the case in court in December.

Andreacchio was banned for six years and Gilbert’s six month ban has lapsed but he has indicated that he has no plans to reapply for membership.
Anyone who thinks Julie is a nice person is way off , she is a shifty no good , it’s all about me person , just another supporter in Burges shows how poor our board is , specially being led by Denny who is just full of crap , a person who makes up shit to sound good
 

A member of the beleaguered owners of the Wests Tigers has hit out at colleagues in a fiery email, accusing one of the Holman Barnes Group debenture holders of leaking information about the eight-year suspension of a board member.
This masthead has obtained an email from Clare Burgess to her fellow debenture holders, sent in the wake of this masthead revealing that former Holman Barnes Group chair Julie Romero had become the fourth person to be suspended by the board.

Burgess – whose husband Dennis is the current chair of Holman Barnes – said she could not “express my disgust” to the person who leaked news of Romero’s departure.

“For whatever sick and feeble gain they might seek to find from doing it, just shows what a pathetic person you must be,” Burgess wrote to her fellow debenture holders on Wednesday night.

Clare and Dennis Burgess. Picture: Facebook


“Most of you will share this opinion I’m sure, but the guilty party has just lost all respect and all integrity and should shrink from sight and forever blush with shame.

“On top of that, you should be reminded that we all sign and commit to a Confidentiality Agreement as Debenture Holders. So, if moral code and fortitude don’t work for you, legal document should. Some people obviously think they can manipulate everything. How hollow is that belief.”

Burgess also expressed concern for Romero’s wellbeing.

Romero spent 13 months as chair of the Holman Barnes Group before she was deposed in April. She was suspended for eight years for what the club described as “a serious breach of confidentiality”.

The debenture system consists of 20 people and, from within, five people are elected to sit on the seven-person Holman Barnes Group board. That means the 20 debenture holders have significant influence on the running of the club.

Four new debenture holders were appointed recently, including ex-Magpies Allan Fallah, Leo Epifania and Magpies board member Bob Cairns. APIA Leichhardt president Tony Raciti was also appointed.

Wests Ashfield recently announced an equity stake in APIA. Wests APIA FC will enter the new Australian Championship competition,

The debenture agreement was launched in 1955 as part of the formation of Wests Ashfield Leagues Club to assist with the running of the Western Suburbs Magpies. The debenture system has remained even through the many changes which have occurred in the past 70 years, including a merger with Balmain.

It costs just $100 to join the elite group.

Chair of the Holman Barnes Group board, Julie Romero. Pic Supplied.


Holman Barnes own 90 per cent of the Wests Tigers.

Rick Yabsley and Frank Primerano were appointed to the Holman Barnes board in May as non-debenture holders.

Romero was the fourth board member suspended by the Holman Barnes Group. Rick Wayde, Tony Andreacchio and David Gilbert were sensationally banned on New Year’s Eve. Wayde is taking legal action against his own eight year ban with the case in court in December.

Andreacchio was banned for six years and Gilbert’s six month ban has lapsed but he has indicated that he has no plans to reapply for membership.
Did Clare not think that this email would also be leaked - adding more fuel to the fire??
Clearly she and Denny have a false perception about the value of the their position as debenture holders being supported by the whole HBG group - let alone the Wests Tigers community....
 

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