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

[weststigers]

He is 100% right. Lidcombe Oval is the traditional ground of the Magpies. They were an inner west club.

 

[Yossarian]

I remember floating the idea of a member elected board a while back and being told it would be unstable, chaotic and too political. Well thank God we avoided that!

 

[KevB]

Incognizant squabble by people from WTF with a little help from Joel Helmes and Cochise.

 

[BAGNF05]

The importance review recommendation was the appointment of skilled independent directors onto the Wests Tigers board.

7 witches hats get my vote. Pretty sure they’d be capable of staying out of the papers and not believing they are actually relevant.

Richo is proving a football club can operate without useful blazer wearers, as long as they just STFU.

 

[GCfan]

A kid got swept away the other day . When things are avoidable , I’m reluctant to use words like tragedy . I’m not sure how to define it , but you can’t help but shake your head .

Common sense isn’t so common is it. Still feel for peoples family who lose a love one due to stupidity.

 

[hammertime]

HBG unfavourables will be feeling the heat now with the negative press another potential review directed at them hopefully they will wake up to themselves.

The problem is, we only needed 1 before the boot of the other 3. Now they've backed themselves into a corner. I can't see how the gaming commission can't get involved now. It smells very corrupt.

 

[jirskyr]

Seriously you must mention me in 50% of your posts, do you wake up thinking about me in the middle of the night?

Well he is only human

 

[George Piper's #1 fan]

He is 100% right. Lidcombe Oval is the traditional ground of the Magpies. They were an inner west club.

Pratten Park!

 

[weststigers]

Pratten Park!

True, but they were at Lidcombe after Pratten Park.

 

[Rock Hopper Steve]

The problem is, we only needed 1 before the boot of the other 3. Now they've backed themselves into a corner. I can't see how the gaming commission can't get involved now. It smells very corrupt.

Hope they do their board system went out with the ice age time to change it as long as the outcome doesn't hurt the football side of things shake it up.

 

[BUGSY MALONE]

I originally started this thread of which the site overseers decided to change the name. I was called all sorts of names for suggesting that the NRL needed to seriously consider tearing up the Wests Tigers licence to play 1st grade (paraphrased) and Wests Ashfield only be responsible for entering the Magpies in the NSW Cup because of the club infighting and the impact it was having in respect of on field performances (a threepete of wooden spoons) as well as the savagery of the media. As a long term Magpie supporter (since 1964) Balmain TIGER supporters have been treated like mugs. I will repeat that I have believed from day one that the joint-venture was doomed for failure, and hence zero culture was never going to develop in this divided club. Shame on all Wests Magpie supporters throwing up the Wests Ashfield's 90% ownership. Magpies were dead in the water without the generous offer from Balmain to forge a partnership. This latest Holman Barnes Board fiasco only reiterates that the Joint-venture cannot work, and the NRL need to step in and save the name WESTS TIGERS for the sake of the current generation of supporters. I love the Magpies but I am embarrassed and my support of the great game of Rugby League is slowly slipping away.

 

[PrattenParkMagpie]

True, but they were at Lidcombe after Pratten Park.

True but Lidcombe wasn't the regular venue until 1962, prior to that there was only 7 games at Lidcombe the first in 1941.

By the way from 1908 to 1999 Western Suburbs played 246 games at Lidcombe (August 31, 1941 - August 31, 1986) and 345 at Pratten Park (August 24, 1912 - August 18, 1985).

I was going to say "from 1908 to 1999 the Magpies played" but they weren't the Magpies until the late 1920's so corrected it to Western Suburbs.