The Holman Barnes Group emphatically rejects claims made by the Sydney Morning Herald about its intention to move away from the Wests Tigers. It is untrue.
Holman Barnes Group Chair, Julie Romero, said: “The Holman Barnes Group slogan is ‘be true to the review’ and we mean it. Our commitment is to the West Tigers and ensuring the Wests Tigers is positioned for success. Seeing reports suggesting anything other than our total commitment to the
Club is disappointing.”“We will not be moving away from Wests Tigers and to claim that is fiction. The Group is disappointed to see damaging inaccuracies reported.”
Time to get all this resolved and for us to be Wests Tigers, run by Wests Tigers.
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I know this might not be popular, but I wish Paul Kent was still around. He tends to write great articles on on this sort of thing. Bring back Kenty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know this might not be popular, but I wish Paul Kent was still around. He tends to write great articles on on this sort of thing. Bring back Kenty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd rather read an article by the tree that tipped him upside down.
In memory of Geoff Chisholm (1965-2022)
I don’t trust burgess or Romero. Take everything they say with a grain of salt
Seriously, what a pack of self indulgent jerks. Timing is very fishy coinciding with the Zurich Centre event today, where so much goodwill and optimism was shown by members/fans.
I don’t trust burgess or Romero. Take everything they say with a grain of salt
100%. They must think us fools.
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I might just add, if you love your Magpies that much go out with your flags and jerseys to Lidcombe and pretend it’s 1980 all over again. But leave Wests Tigers alone!
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Can only roll eyes . These people need to get over themselves. We are the Wests Tigers. The NRL holds the naming rights, and the Magpies are never coming back to the NRL no matter how much one or two of the HBG want them to.
The 2 biggest issues with the Wests Tigers are ;
1 HBG
2 A lot of Old Balmain supporters (and past players) still thinking the club is still Balmain.
The 2 biggest issues with the Wests Tigers are ;
1 HBG
2 A lot of Old Balmain supporters (and past players) still thinking the club is still Balmain.
Maybe its because I come from the old Balmain side of the merger, but I genuinely dont see #2.
The 2 biggest issues with the Wests Tigers are ;
1 HBG
2 A lot of Old Balmain supporters (and past players) still thinking the club is still Balmain.
Maybe its because I come from the old Balmain side of the merger, but I genuinely dont see #2.
I think some of Balmain's past players definitely see it that way.
In memory of Geoff Chisholm (1965-2022)
The 2 biggest issues with the Wests Tigers are ;
1 HBG
2 A lot of Old Balmain supporters (and past players) still thinking the club is still Balmain.
Maybe its because I come from the old Balmain side of the merger, but I genuinely dont see #2.
I think some of Balmain's past players definitely see it that way.
Ah I agree with that, I also think its their only way to tenuously stay relevant.
So, if I've read this correctly, the whole story is based on something that Dennis Burgess was supposedly overheard saying at a WT game "Wests Magpies will return to the NRL" which was then told to someone who told it to someone etc who did nothing about it at the time, and an ex-Balmain board member has now run with it, although he says it's only "his understanding" and he has "no formal proof". And, now SMH run with it for the second day as a major issue, quoting the discredited Benny Elias in their story. That's the issue?
Romero and Burgess have nowhere to hide now. They should both ride on into the sunset asap.
This is a good article as it exposes them both for the real agenda they have.
I can’t wait until the independent Directors are appointed to our board and Wests Tigers can just keep rolling.
No wonder we’ve been stuck in the mud up until this new structure with clowns like these 2 trying to dismantle the team behind the scenes.
They all have agendas, Self interest is a curse.
Andreachio is the guy who commissioned and then embraced the report that spilled the WT board and led to the exit of Lee and Pascoe. A few months later he was removed as WA chairman and then 6 months later all the members of the WA board who were on the WT board that voted to accept the recommendations are now being removed from WA (as in completely being kicked out of HBG - they are banned from the premises) over what seems highly trivial reasons. This process is being run by the wife of a long time Wests head kicker and that weirdo Burgess who is also a Wests tragic who wants to bring Wests back to the NRL. We also learn that there are now only 18 debenture holders left which means they are not replacing the old ones that die and these debenture holders run everything at the club including electing all the office holders that run WA and ultimately control WT. There are serious serious serious governance issues and I do think the state government should get involved as this is a tax exempt special entity that is being run as a personal fiefdom for these special interests. We still have not heard about the new chairman of WT being confirmed or the new board members. My view is that Burgess and Romero want to blow up the recommendations but they are aware that it will cause giant public outcry and so for now have kept everything behind the scenes. We will learn from the structure of the new board and the appointees how successful they are