More upheaval for Wests Tigers owners as chairwoman deposed by Magpies boss, SMH

[BlackWhiteGold]

Mods, may want to add this to the Board, CEO locked thread.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/mo...-deposed-by-magpies-boss-20250430-p5lvgj.html

Julie Romero, the woman who led a boardroom revolt that split the Holman Barnes Group – the majority owners of the Wests Tigers – was on Tuesday night deposed as chair of the organisation.

Romero was voted out and replaced by Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club chairman Dennis Burgess. Romero will remain on the board.

Former Holman Barnes Group chair Tony Andreacchio with the new chair Dennis Burgess back in 2021.Credit:SMH

The ascension of Burgess to the chairman’s position at the HBG – which oversees the cashed-up Wests Ashfield leagues club – will raise eyebrows at the Wests Tigers, a joint-venture club formed through the merging of Balmain and the Western Suburbs.

Burgess allegedly told Wests Tigers director and Balmain chairman Danny Stapleton at a game last year, “We’re bringing back the Wests Magpies”.

That conversation led to Wests Tigers chairman Barry O’Farrell raising concerns with NRL boss Peter V’landys.

Romero led a coup in March last year that overthrew Tony Andreacchio at the helm of the HBG board, and also took action against fellow directors Rick Wayde and Dave Gilbert that led to their departure from the board over the summer.

Romero was also opposed to an independent review that was commissioned last year by the HBG – and conducted by Tony Crawford and Gary Barnier – after the Wests Tigers won the wooden spoon for the third successive year.

She resisted some of the changes recommended by the review that have since been implemented under Wests Tigers chief executive Shane Richardson.

 

[Tiger_Yoshi]

Sheez will the HBG ever stay out of the headlines!...Not sure if this is a good or bad thing for the Wests Tigers....Burgess apparently wants to rename the NRL club Wests Magpies.(good luck!)

 

[Needaname]

Is Burgess our current rep on the WT board as well?
If anything the Chair is now directly reporting and representing the owners.

 

[magpies forever]

Sheez will the HBG ever stay out of the headlines!...Not sure if this is a good or bad thing for the Wests Tigers....Burgess apparently wants to rename the NRL club Wests Magpies.(good luck!)

I doubt that would ever happen. NRL controls the license and the branding and have said its the Tigers. besides the quote in the article about Burgess saying wants to bring Magpies back comes from before that final eruption of the 2 old foundation club boards before it was resolved with the independent directors etc. I would place the quote in this instance as a sh*t stirring quote by journalist- unless more recent manouverings are publicised. Burgess should be p'éd off out of the HBG if the doesnt believe in the united, joint venture and stick to Wests Ashfield.

 

[WestsEffTheRest]

Should we be concerned?

 

[jadtiger]

So the backstabber got backstabbed by her partner in crime,what a total farce that board is.

 

[Jolls]

It is irrelevent stuff - our board is independent of HBG and only worries about footy. Burgess and his band of merry men look after the pokies. There is the ownership tentacle - but I doubt it will be ever used unless our CEO does something stupid.

 

[jrtiger]

I hope Liquor and Gaming aren’t far away from blowing these amateurs to high heaven.

the Independent Board shields WT from their incompetence, but they continue to drag us back into their shit by association.

 

[cochise]

And people were trying to say that the HBG isn't dysfunctional.

 

[innsaneink]

So the backstabber got backstabbed by her partner in crime,what a total farce that board is.

Bahahaha...karma eh

 

[the enforcer.]

Geez . Dennis has nice hair.

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

And people were trying to say that the HBG isn't dysfunctional.

There's never a dull moment on the HBG board. I thought Burgess & Romero were part on the same clique.

BREAKING: More boardroom bloodshed at Tigers as heated meeting sparks shake-up

BREAKING: More boardroom bloodshed at Tigers as heated meeting sparks shake-up

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[tig_prmz]

Are we ever going to have someone in-charge who has good hair?

 

[cochise]

There's never a dull moment on the HBG board. I thought Burgess & Romero were part on the same clique.

BREAKING: More boardroom bloodshed at Tigers as heated meeting sparks shake-up

BREAKING: More boardroom bloodshed at Tigers as heated meeting sparks shake-up

www.foxsports.com.au

They were.

 

[rihannafan1]

And people were trying to say that the HBG isn't dysfunctional.

Well, Dennis or someone who liked to refer to him as 'Denny' was very active on here trying to tell us they weren't. I am so glad that the independent board were brought in.

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

Look who it is reporting it Chammas and Hooper surprise surprise, you could make a comedy movie out of this crap organization maybe Romero could be played by Amy Schumer and Burgess by Jim Carey but he would have to find a ridiculous white wig maybe he could borrow Dennis's if you could prise it off him.

Really wish they would sell Wests Tigers to a more competent owner of course nothing to do with Benny boy.

 

[mikey]

Geez . Dennis has nice hair.

I thought he must have been her.
Nightie and a blue perm and you wouldn't know.

 

[2041]

I had a chat with someone who I'll describe as a very, very senior decision maker at a very important sponsor of the Wests Tigers earlier this season, who told me that HBG are 100% letting Richardson get on with running the club without interference or even demands for constant flow of information. Assuming that's true, IDGAF if the new chair is a dinosaur who wants to change the name of the NRL team - provided he doesn't upset the apple cart now it actually has a couple of apples on it for the first time in more than a decade he can talk to Vlandys about whatever boomer nonsense he wants.

 

[Jux]

Look who it is reporting it Chammas and Hooper surprise surprise, you could make a comedy movie out of this crap organization maybe Romero could be played by Amy Schumer and Burgess by Jim Carey but he would have to find a ridiculous white wig maybe he could borrow Dennis's if you could prise it off him.

Really wish they would sell Wests Tigers to a more competent owner of course nothing to do with Benny boy.

You want HBG to sell their 90% share of the Weststigers to another entity who they feel will be more competent than themselves.

 

[Tom Shines]

Maybe a couple of the Magpies boys that post here can give us the latest with Dennis ?