Wests Tigers admin/governance discussion

Anonymous · 2023-07-02T04:09:12Z

NRL Tackle: Lee Hagipantelis and Justin Pascoe must walk to save Wests Tigers more embarrassment The two men who have presided over the embarrassment that is the Wests Tigers must stand down or be sacked by the board, writes Paul Crawley.Paul Crawley Heads must roll at Wests Tigers but it’s not Tim Sheens or Benji Marshall who should be on the chopping block.It has to start at the top with chairman Lee Hagipantelis and chief executive Justin Pascoe.You can’t just sack Sheens and/or Marshall and allow the same officials who employed them to go on their merry way.And calls for Sheens to stand down immediately in the wake of the shambolic 74-0 loss to the Cowboys and hand Marshall full control right now are just as ludicrous.The reason Marshall was put on a five-year deal only last July was because he had next to no previous coaching experience coming into the job.Yet it was the club officials who still determined it was the best way forward after a decade of not playing finals football, and going through a stack of other head coaches in the process.That is why Sheens must stay on now because what the Tigers can’t afford is to make a club legend the next man thrown under the bus if Marshall is catapulted into head coaching before he’s ready.But the buck has to stop somewhere and it is Hagpitantelis and Pascoe who need to be made accountable.Hagipantelis took over as chairman in November 2019 while Pascoe was appointed in September 2015.And since Pascoe took over the club has gone through coach after coach, player after player, but the same sorry story keeps playing out like a broken record.Their supporters always seem to point to the fact the club is a far better financial position than it was prior.Who gives a crap if on-field performances have not improved, but in actual fact have gone backwards?The decision to bring in new head of recruitment Scott Fulton and the unrest that has caused is another decision the board and administration must wear.It is not Fulton’s fault that he was thrown into this position, but it was pure madness he was appointed without the full knowledge of the head coach and coach-in-waiting.That simply would not happen at any of the successful clubs.Then you had the decision to let Luke Brooks walk out the door to join Manly next year without a better halfback option signed to replace him.We all know Sheens and Marshall wanted to keep Brooks, but others weren’t on the same page.Now it is Sheens and Marshall who have been left to deal with the fallout.I also feel for Sheens who is 72 and was out of the NRL a long time before they rushed him back from England to save a club that was already the laughing stock of the league.Now some people want to make Sheens the latest scapegoat so the people who employed him in the first place can save face.What a bloody embarrassment.

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Snake

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October 9, 2025 6:48 pm

@joel I would actually call HBG a road block for the Tigers the club is being drip feed . Things might get a bit rocky in the future as a new board could just be a yes man’s club which could be an issue moving forward …I know some of these magpie fossils and I will not repeat what they think of the Weststigers make of that what you will.

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October 10, 2025 8:55 am

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@joel I would actually call HBG a road block for the Tigers the club is being drip feed . Things might get a bit rocky in the future as a new board could just be a yes man’s club which could be an issue moving forward …I know some of these magpie fossils and I will not repeat what they think of the Weststigers make of that what you will.

There is no doubt in my mind that HBG are holding the Wests Tigers back. This is the reason Richo has been working on decoupling the club from a strategy and governance perspective (independent board) and a financial perspective (turning a profit).

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