WT Ownership, The Board & Senior Management - MEGA Thread

[jirskyr]

Look at the cake they put on for Klemmer 200th.
A generic cake with post it notes. Great last minute save lol.
Whoever put that together should be embarrassed.

I must assume you are joking

 

[innsaneink]

That cakes gotta be a gee up

That's sad if true

 

[Halbrowne61]

Look at the cake they put on for Klemmer 200th.
A generic cake with post it notes. Great last minute save lol.
Whoever put that together should be embarrassed.

Disgraceful. Klemmer and co must be thinking wow what a club …,,,NOT !!

 

[finnzo]

I don’t know why I read this thread it just gets me more angry cause I know nothing g will change cuase there to stupid to think they are effecting football results

But remember guys we are accountable

 

[innsaneink]

@matchball please tell us this is a joke or a made up meme or something

 

[matchball]

@matchball please tell us this is a joke or a made up meme or something

Not at all.

First few seconds of the video. It's not made up it's from the mob itself.

 

[tony soprano]

That is correct, the development on the old Balmain Leagues Club site will finally go ahead, I believe work starts on that this year. When completed there will be a Leagues Club on the site that will be owned and operated by the Holman Barnes Group (Wests Ashfield).

The Holman Barnes Group is trying to embrace and respect the history of Balmain Leagues, hence their rebranding to the Holman Barnes Group that will oversee the 4 clubs they will operate, Wests Ashfield, The Market Club, Croydon Sports Club and the new Balmain Leagues Club.

More places to protest boys.

 

[jirskyr]

@matchball please tell us this is a joke or a made up meme or something

No the joke is that people have fallen so low as to be critiquing cakes.

What a ridiculous position to be in.

 

[Halbrowne61]

No the joke is that people have fallen so low as to be critiquing cakes.

What a ridiculous position to be in.

Pull your head out mate……it’s not about the cake, it’s the way a 200game veteran is honoured. It shows how our organisation works and it stinks.
I think even though he’s only been with us a short time we should have done better than a post it note on a cheap looking cake.

 

[Buttface]

I believe it was Sharon in payroll…

Does she run backwards?

 

[matchball]

No the joke is that people have fallen so low as to be critiquing cakes.

What a ridiculous position to be in.

Looks like no planning until the last minute.
Someone had to run up to Burwood Rd and buy the first cake they saw.
We are lucky Pascoe keeps post it notes in his desk draw. We would have looked foolish.

 

[innsaneink]

Post it notes and a sharpie.... Classy

 

[BZN]

My other issue with Lee is he bloody sponsors half the teams in the comp, how is that not a conflict of interest.
If he really gave a toss about the Tigers he would cancel all other sponsorships with other N.R.L teams and send the extra cash the Tigers way.

What's worse liltiger?
Lee H sponsoring half of the teams in the comp as a conflict of interest when he is chair of Our Club
OR
Laurie wearing a Penrith jersey and liking a try scored by one of his mates.
Imo Lee should be forced to show his loyalty to Wests Tigers by only sponsoring Wests Tigers.

 

[hammertime]

Yep. Shows how inept our Front Office is. If that cake is their version of excellence, no wonder you have that culture permeating through the organization.

This is what Lee doesn't get when he says, "Someone needs to show me how the organisation would improve if we removed Justin".

Yes, it's a cake, but everything matters. If the players see that the Front Office can't even order a cake, why should they care? if the CEO is playing candy crush on his mobile while Sheens is speaking, why would I listen?

The fact that it's on the WT media, shows that they think it's acceptable. It's not. That is a deadset joke of a way to play respect to Klem. Spend $150 and get a cake that doesn't come from Coles!!! Absolute joke.

We need someone in the CEO chair who understands how to display and filter down excellence. Justin does not.

 

[crazycat]

some sensation from NZ for 600k was a bit of a joke?

I cannot even remember the player name. That's it Tuimoala Lolohea... Totally wrong year, 2018.
We recruited them as an outside back and they had maybe 3 good games. Then nothing.

 

[crazycat]

What's worse liltiger?
Lee H sponsoring half of the teams in the comp as a conflict of interest when he is chair of Our Club
OR
Laurie wearing a Penrith jersey and liking a try scored by one of his mates.
Imo Lee should be forced to show his loyalty to Wests Tigers by only sponsoring Wests Tigers.

We need some of that Sweet Sweet corporate sponsorship and we need it BADLY.

If we start nit picking the people that give us money, guess what:
"No Money for you".

Yes I see problems with Lee H, I don't like this. But I won't kill our sponsorship over this.

 

[BZN]

Pretty generous if true.

Maybe we all need to chip in and buy balmains seats

Generous to who izotope? 🙂
What will buying Balmain's seats achieve?

 

[Frosty]

Haha tell me that's a Wests Tigers cake without telling me it's a Wests Tigers cake! Post-it notes and a sharpie indeed!

 

[liltiger]

What's worse liltiger?
Lee H sponsoring half of the teams in the comp as a conflict of interest when he is chair of Our Club
OR
Laurie wearing a Penrith jersey and liking a try scored by one of his mates.
Imo Lee should be forced to show his loyalty to Wests Tigers by only sponsoring Wests Tigers.

I agree 100 percent that's the point I was making

 

[BZN]

I think that's more or less it, except I think with the leagues club merger, Balmain has relinquished any further claim to "historical board seats". In other words, Wests have not taken over the Balmain loan, they've absorbed all debts and the club itself.

Tigers Football Club were unable to furnish their NRL loan, so Wests agreed to cover the loan in full and at the same time proposed a merger between Wests Leagues and Balmain Leagues, because I don't think Balmain Leagues had the money to cover their own Football Club, i.e. pay for the juniors and the reserve sides (which is why the Ryde Eastwood club got involved for a while).

@cochise knows the details better than me, but I am pretty sure that when they proposed the merger of Wests Leagues and Balmain Leagues (voted on by members), the deal was that Wests would cover all Balmain debts in all departments and in return Balmain would relinquish all remaining assets (leagues club premises and Board seats) to the new entity, still to be called Wests Ashfield. Wests then honoured the "spirit" of the merger by allowing Balmain to retain a seat on the Board, when technically Wests Ashfield had the rights to control the entire board.

I believe Wests Ashfield also now fund all Balmain junior district operations since the merger. And you'll note that the interim Balmain Leagues clubs at Five Dock and Flemington Markets were relinquished to Wests - Five Dock was sold off and Flemington was rebranded as "The Markets Club".

Thanks jirskyr
Thank goodness someone has been able to set out clearly what the situation is with Wests Tigers....
who the Board are and how Our Club is financially set up.
And it's my understanding Our Club can only ever going forward be known as Wests Tigers as decreed by the NRL quite a few years ago.
And as you said Cochise "knows the details better than me" so I reckon it would be a great idea to get him on here to explain in finer detail what's what and when that was settled.