Who’s misrepresenting who now? I said you can’t say they are not dragging the chain … not that you did.
Sheesh.
OFFICIAL Wests Tigers Unite: Call to Arms
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Sheesh.
Sure.
cochise
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Wests Tigers Unite Update
As the Petition calling for a governance review into the Holman Barnes Group moves towards 1400 signatures Garry Watson sat down for a one-on-one chat with Holman Barnes Group Debenture Holder and former director John Hardgrove.
Wests Tigers Podcast 0372 | Wests Tigers Podcast & Forum
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As the Petition calling for a governance review into the Holman Barnes Group moves towards 1400 signatures Garry Watson sat down for a one-on-one chat with Holman Barnes Group Debenture Holder and former director John Hardgrove.
Wests Tigers Podcast 0372 | Wests Tigers Podcast & Forum
Wests Tigers Podcast 0372 - Wests Tigers Podcast
Wests Tigers Unite Update As the Petition calling for a governance review into the Holman Barnes Group moves towards 1400 signatures Garry Watson sat down for a one-on-one chat with Holman Barnes Group Debenture Holder and former director John Hardgrove. John gives and in-depth explanation...
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Tucker
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How do we get rid of them? They are both owners and both have a rep on the board.
Fans need to accept you can’t just stamp your feet and get what you want.
and driving the joint into the ground with their silence, stalling the independent 's on the board etc etc,sometimes wonder if this is just a charade to get the NRL to buy them out ,and they charge on going rent for the junior base,2many opinions hurt the brain, as suggested earlier
Colonial
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Yep, and the club was booted twice from the comp, and we are currently the ongoing joke of the league. Done wonders.
Changes nothing to what I’ve said.
That’s nice.
I’m judging in the disasters that the sporting entities have endured over these decades.
Plus the two times kicked out.
Yay they have money, now.
Yeah but I’m not sure if you aren’t related to these entitled fools.
poopy_diaper
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Yep. Force the sale.
liltiger
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Honestly looking at it objectively, Balmain contribute absolutely nothing anymore. They're already gone. HBG since taking a controlling stake have run the joint into the ground. My point is every single seat in the Wests Tigers boardroom should be taken up by a Wests Tigers representative only. Not from Balmain not from HBG, I don't care who founded it I don't care how much they tip into the joint.
If these two proud foundation clubs were as worried about their history and heritage in the 90s as much as they drivel on with it now maybe they wouldn't have needed to merge, but they had to merge. They've had their chance and as far as I'm concerned they should both be left in history and forgotten about
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GNR4LIFE
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I think he’s referring to the group who owns the club who the majority want gone.
poopy_diaper
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An interesting read.
www.nytimes.com
Tl;dr Snyder ran the club into the ground and was useless. Fan backlash and the constant inquisitions eventually forced his hand. The difference is HBG exists really only to act as the owners of the Tigers and individually are all probably self obsessed enough to dig their heels in. But I really feel the direction here should be trying to achieve a similar goal.
The first question is who. I heard rumours that Harry Triguboff had designs on buying the club as a legacy for his son. Celebrity fan consortium ala Souths?
Dan Snyder Agrees to Sell Washington Commanders for $6 Billion (Published 2023)
The N.F.L. team is on track to be sold for a record figure to a group led by Josh Harris, as investigations into sexual harassment claims and the team’s finances continue.
Tl;dr Snyder ran the club into the ground and was useless. Fan backlash and the constant inquisitions eventually forced his hand. The difference is HBG exists really only to act as the owners of the Tigers and individually are all probably self obsessed enough to dig their heels in. But I really feel the direction here should be trying to achieve a similar goal.
The first question is who. I heard rumours that Harry Triguboff had designs on buying the club as a legacy for his son. Celebrity fan consortium ala Souths?
poopy_diaper
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Kind of can tbh. The fans of the club are the primary commercial stakeholder of the club. No fans equals no revenue. There are a fair few examples of fans coming together to "stamp their feet" and get their way when it comes to change in sports clubs. Even in the NRL there are examples.
would you jump to that web page , we could, possible if we all get our skates on ,to go fund me collaborated ,non facebook ,buy the place . FK the patients in charge of the Madhouse,wont that be fun. Its worth threatening them with it it they dont play ball
vlad
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The south’s takeover begun from an unofficial fan forum called the Rabbitoh Warren .An interesting read.
Dan Snyder Agrees to Sell Washington Commanders for $6 Billion (Published 2023)
The N.F.L. team is on track to be sold for a record figure to a group led by Josh Harris, as investigations into sexual harassment claims and the team’s finances continue.
Tl;dr Snyder ran the club into the ground and was useless. Fan backlash and the constant inquisitions eventually forced his hand. The difference is HBG exists really only to act as the owners of the Tigers and individually are all probably self obsessed enough to dig their heels in. But I really feel the direction here should be trying to achieve a similar goal.
The first question is who. I heard rumours that Harry Triguboff had designs on buying the club as a legacy for his son. Celebrity fan consortium ala Souths?
Killing off George Piggins took some doing but it transformed south’s from a chook raffle club to one of the strongest in the NRL
poopy_diaper
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Crowdsourcing a takeover and turning the Tigers into the NRL version of the Packers would be pretty funny but there would be so many complexities. I'd suggest you'd need lawyers to draft up a whole lot of documents outlining the laws of the club under such an ownership group. You'd need that before the NRL humoured it. Then you'd need the NRL themselves to find cause to force the sale (which by the sounds of what Joel alludes to they could probably find under the couch). At that point you could take the campaign public but at that point cashed up buyers would fall out of the trees anyway I feel.
I think that the direct action we should be taking is lobbying the NRL to revoke their right to the franchise. With as incompetent as they've been I would be stunned if there isn't evidence somewhere of illegal shit.
liltiger
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Sorry GNR I changed my response. Irrespective of who's putting money in. I cannot see how having a HBG rep on a board for the Wests Tigers is right.
If your on the Tigers board your there as a Tigers rep. Not a HBG rep because they're chipping money in.
Same as Stapelton, why should he get a board seat because he's from Balmain. He's taking a Wests Tigers seat as a Balmain rep, it's wrong. Every seat should be taken by and only by people there with Wests Tigers as their priority.
Both HBG and Balmain and wests rugby league and anyone else not Wests Tigers should not be allowed onto the board.
Joel Helmes
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I love the discussion but you’re all missing the cashed up elephant in the room, watching and waiting. I’m not saying any more than that.
poopy_diaper
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A couple of years back there was a sponsor that Westslife interviewed who put the org on blast majorly. What was his name again?
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liltiger
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Is there a buyer lurking in the background Joel?
Tucker
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Gonna need ten times more than what they have so far
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