Taking a wrecking ball to the club! (Recent Media Reports)

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magpies forever said:
Names / symbols mean something to some people- as a person with bonds / memory of the Magpies and their symbol - the Magpie. Ive got no desire for the symbol to be at the NRL level but I'd like the Magpie to be at the KOE level. My preference.

People may recall I recently posted a suggestion we go further with the Outlaw / Bushranger theme / symbol to get over the symbolism of previous clubs- Tiger and Magpie. Im sorry but I feel at present if we get rid of the Magpie at KOE and its all Tiger, Ive lost something. Im not pressing, or wanting Magpie at NRL but whats wrong with giving a dog a bone with the Magpie at KOE level? If we loose the Magpie at KOE level I'd be really thinking about a new symbol- as I said I like the Bushranger. Anyway, just my 2 cents worth.

AND back to the thread point, yes something has to be done about the Board and hold their feet to the fire until these 3 independents are announced and in place.

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I understand that ! Totally . But my kids don’t . Anyone under 30
Doesn’t ! And the club is thiers ! And as such they have no even knowledge who Balmain and the magpies are .
Your nostalgia for a dead club , is undermining the loyalty and future nostalgia of kids coming through to wests tigers .
If they’re playing for Balmain and a magpies that means that thier first exposure to a wests tigers jersey is in u21s . So basically 19 year olds .
You know what 19 year olds have ? Already formed opinions . Already formed ideals and already formed loyalties .
the panthers on the other hand have kids wear a panthers jersey at 14 and train next or the nrl club on the same fields . In the same gyms .
The same things that you are clinging to , are the same things holding the club back .
 
Lestronge said:
I understand that ! Totally . But my kids don’t . Anyone under 30
Doesn’t ! And the club is thiers ! And as such they have no even knowledge who Balmain and the magpies are .
Your nostalgia for a dead club , is undermining the loyalty and future nostalgia of kids coming through to wests tigers .
If they’re playing for Balmain and a magpies that means that thier first exposure to a wests tigers jersey is in u21s . So basically 19 year olds .
You know what 19 year olds have ? Already formed opinions . Already formed ideals and already formed loyalties .
the panthers on the other hand have kids wear a panthers jersey at 14 and train next or the nrl club on the same fields . In the same gyms .
The same things that you are clinging to , are the same things holding the club back .
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OK then if the Tigers / Magpie symbol causes such division, lets go to another symbol - not Tiger / Magpie then- both Tigers and Magpies are dead then as old ARL clubs happy???????????????????? With that Im getting out of this thread. Bye
 
magpies forever said:
OK then if the Tigers / Magpie symbol causes such division, lets go to another symbol - not Tiger / Magpie then- both Tigers and Magpies are dead then as old ARL clubs happy???????????????????? With that Im getting out of this thread. Bye
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There already is one . It’s called Wests Tigers ! And a kid who grows up in five dock , can only ever really aspire to wear a Balmain Jersey .
Same for a kid who grows up in Bradbury can only aspire to wests magpies jersey .
If it’s a wests tigers jersey , they’re now wearing the same jersey as thier hero’s , and there’s a clear link there and love for the jersey . And a symbolic way to bond when the cubs programs are run during the offseason .
The very same link that you would have to the magpies jersey .
 
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After 25 years, I must say, that I truly find the whole Balmain/Wests thing tiresome.

Am I surprised that it is still a thing? Nope.

How could I be when it is seared into my memory coming home on the bus from the best night of my life (excluding the birth of my daughters) - Sunday October 2, 2005 - that all I heard was an old dinosaur complain about the size of his old teams logo on the jersey of the winning team. Champ, you had just won the freaking Premiership and that's what you want to talk about? Not about the flick pass or Patty Richards swatting away the puny little Cowboy man to score the try?

Now please dont go me Magpie people, there are plenty of crusty old Balmain dinosaurs out there too and I am sure that you can give the forum an anecdote from your experience. I only refer to it because they are the problem: the dinosaurs of Balmain and Wests.

I will not wear my Balmain jersey to a Wests Tigers game. My team is the Wests Tigers. Has been since 2000.

Anyways, that's my little rant for the day.

After three spoons, I am excited about 2025. Hopefully we can start winning games and these sort of issues get put where they belong: into the bin.
 
farmduck said:
I haven't found an answer to the most fundamental question, "Why do these debentures even exist?" Here are some snippets I gleaned from a HBG Annual Report. I'm hopeless at understanding financial reports and accounting terms.

https://holmanbarnesgroup.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/HBG-AnnualReport_2022-23_WEB-1.pdf

Pages 11-13 Board profiles

Julie became a Debenture Holder in January 2009 and held the role of Secretary from February 2010 to December 2012. In February 2014, Julie was elected Debenture Holder Chairperson and held that role until February 2020, when she was nominated for election to the Board of Directors. Being a Director of Wests Ashfield has been an ambition of Julie’s and the driving force behind her application for a Debenture. She has previously been the Wests Ashfield nominee on the Board of the Western Suburbs Magpies, serving a 3-year term.​

Dennis Burgess He has been a Debenture Holder of ‘Western Suburbs Leagues Club Ltd’ since 1996

Mick Liubinskas: As well as being a Debenture Holder and Director of Wests Ashfield ...

Appointed to the Board of Directors in July 2020, Vince Tropiano has been a member of the Club since the late 1980s and a Debenture Holder since February 1996.

Dave Gilbert: A Wests Ashfield member since 2014, David became a Debenture Holder in 2019

(I can understand why some debentures may have been issued in 1996 but that doesn't explain why they still exist or why there would be any need to transfer them or issue any new ones.)​


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3. Expenses
Interest and financial charges paid/payable on borrowings: $37,048

(I don't know what this is for. It couldn't be the debentures if they are only $2,000. Perhaps it was related to the Centre of Excellence?)


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12. Financial Liabilities

Debenture loans $2,000

(These were the only listed financial liabilities for that year and showed an increase from $1,800 the previous year.)​
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My understanding of debentures is simply unsecured loans to companies and businesses that are paid dividends annually. They have been used in the licensed club industry for many years as a way of raising capital.
 
jadtiger said:
The benefit is having 2 teams of juniors coming through which should give us a better chance of identifying who to keep also it makes it easier for training purposes to keep 2 locations working or you would find players in one area going to play for a closer club than the one they are a junior of.That can be a massive issue at Mathews or Ball level
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Have it Wests Tigers South djrl & Wests Tigers North djrl... I hope every one of our junior teams jumpers has the WTs logo on it somewhere these days.
Started to see it occasionally 15 odd year ago
 
jirskyr said:
We can certainly generalise about one thing - since 2016 when Wests Ashfield took over majority power in the club, no longer on rotation with Balmain, it's been one failure after another. Certainly not a storied history prior to 2016, but since 2016 it's basically gotten worse and worse each year and HBG are responsible for that.

In that time we've changed the coach 5 times, overhauled the roster just as often, opened a Centre of Excellence, changed neutral home grounds, changed sponsor, changed independent chairperson 3 times and last year replaced the CEO.

There is nothing else that can be fundamentally changed at the club except the Board - it's structure and the members. In that period the Board control has not changed, simply rotated the roles and responsibilities amongst the same names.

It therefore stands to reason that an overhaul of the Board is the last logical step in a long line of changes to help make the club more successful. So even if you support Wests Ashfield or HBG or any individual Board member, the reality is those same folks in charge have not helped the club to any kind of recent success. So it's time for a big change - the independent review recommended change.

The issue is that 12 months later we still haven't seen the recommendations enacted. If anything, the most experienced sports administrators on the Board appear to be casualties of the process (as you have noted), particularly when Julie Romero (from insurance) is the current Chair and Denny Burgess (failed muso) is the Deputy, and they appear the least qualified to continue to lead.
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Sooooo.....you're saying throughout all the problems since 2016 there's a common denominator?

You're right though. The details don't matter. It's the same people that have taken us from chaos to chaos. Ultimately, something with these people is creating issues and they just need to go.
 
The Nrl should come out and make a statement to stop this

They said before it's a West Tigers NRL licence and all the NRL licences are renewed every 5 or 7 years I can not remember each one it is


If it's not the West Tigers we will offer the NRL licence to Norths and have them play out of Perth and move Canterbury closer to Liverpool

Just sick of the old Farts causing trouble
 
diedpretty said:
It's so funny watching the " we are Wests Tigers " crowd suddenly changing tune and calling for a buyout and become Balmain. HYPOCRITES.
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G'day diedpretty...and the only people from outside our club that could well be causing destabilization [if that is the case] amongst the board are Balmain people like Benny Elias, Danny Stapleton and the wiggliest wiggle of all being the Blue Wiggle.
I would have thought that 2 supposedly intelligent people and Benny Elias, would realise when you do dumb acts like this, yuh gunna cause unwanted conflict among a certain amount of people.
But in saying that, there are posters on here that very seldom appear until there is a breakout of conflict and that brings out the best, or worst in them...weird!
 
Odessa said:
The Nrl should come out and make a statement to stop this

They said before it's a West Tigers NRL licence and all the NRL licences are renewed every 5 or 7 years I can not remember each one it is


If it's not the West Tigers we will offer the NRL licence to Norths and have them play out of Perth and move Canterbury closer to Liverpool

Just sick of the old Farts causing trouble
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New licenses have just been signed and last for the next 10 years.
 
BZN said:
G'day diedpretty...and the only people from outside our club that could well be causing destabilization [if that is the case] amongst the board are Balmain people like Benny Elias, Danny Stapleton and the wiggliest wiggle of all being the Blue Wiggle.
I would have thought that 2 supposedly intelligent people and Benny Elias, would realise when you do dumb acts like this, yuh gunna cause unwanted conflict among a certain amount of people.
But in saying that, there are posters on here that very seldom appear until there is a breakout of conflict and that brings out the best, or worst in them...weird!
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Is that why you have been here the last couple of days?
 
Odessa said:
When did it happen I was thinking only about 3 years ago they signed up again
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Literally in the last couple of weeks, they were due to be signed last off season but an agreement couldn't be reached so they extended the old ones to this season.

There hasn't been an announcement but I saw it in an article in the last couple of days that the new agreements are in place.
 
KevB said:
My understanding of debentures is simply unsecured loans to companies and businesses that are paid dividends annually. They have been used in the licensed club industry for many years as a way of raising capital.
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Yep. Wonder through if they typically come with a board seat?

There are some interesting rules in the clubs legislation that i think they are breaking. Particularly around personal gain and that the same opportunity is not offered to ordinary members (since its capped to 20).

Is anyone here a lawyer that can have a look at the clubs act? Maybe we could send it onto Lee as I'm sure he'd love a chat with them.
 
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