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Entire Wests Tigers Board Sacked

Bring back the Magpies?

  • Yes

    Votes: 18 54.5%
  • No

    Votes: 5 15.2%
  • Remove both clubs

    Votes: 10 30.3%

  • Total voters
    33

innsaneink

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Liquor and Gaming NSW has opened an investigation into the running of the Holman Barnes Group, conducting interviews with the three directors who have been banned for a combined 15 years.

As reported by this masthead last month, the Independent Liqour and Gaming Authority was recently made aware of the disharmony on the HBG board, the majority shareholder of the Wests Tigers and the owners of the rich and powerful Wests Ashfield club.


That disharmony on Wednesday led to the banning of three HBG directors – Tony Andreacchio, Rick Wayde and David Gilbert – for alleged misdemeanours dating back up to five years.

Before the disciplinary actions of the HBG, ILGA forwarded concerns to L&GNSW, the agency responsible for overseeing the legislation that governs registered clubs in NSW. The regulator has since opened its own investigation to determine the severity of the situation and whether ILGA needs to concern itself with the running of the HBG.

The regulator did not respond to detailed questions about the nature of its probe, but in a statement a spokesman confirmed it was “aware of allegations recently raised concerning the Holman Barnes Group”.

“As those allegations are currently under assessment, no further comment can be made at this stage,” the L&GNSW spokesman said.....................................

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Munky

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Clubs in NSW are the ultimate gravy train.

Casinos marketing themselves as community institutions.

Gain power within the club and you can contract out all the services such as catering and cleaning to your privately owned business. Renos to your development company.

Like all things that seem too good to be true the main thing is to keep a low profile and avoid all outside scrutiny in regard to the behind the scenes operations.

It's very onbrand for the Tigpies to not even be able to accomplish that.
 

innsaneink

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My brother-in-law is a lifelong Tigers man. He refuses to talk footy with me anymore as it it just gets him too worked up.
I can relate...I just shake my head whenever I talk footy with friends about WTs, I have little tangible argument for anything thats occured....only a sliver of hope

Sidenote= I used to love Barney Miller...classic comedy
 
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I can relate...I just shake my head whenever I talk footy with friends about WTs, I have little tangible argument for anything thats occured....only a sliver of hope

Sidenote= I used to love Barney Miller...classic comedy
He often says to me that he wishes Balmain had joined Souths in the fight to exist as a stand-alone club then he still might have his old team to support. Yes, Barney Miller is a true classic. A lot of these comedy shows today could learn a thing or two about writing from the guys who wrote it.
 
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He often says to me that he wishes Balmain had joined Souths in the fight to exist as a stand-alone club then he still might have his old team to support. Yes, Barney Miller is a true classic. A lot of these comedy shows today could learn a thing or two about writing from the guys who wrote it.

Easy to say now. Souths took the risk and everything went right for them.

from memory, the NRL was found in court to actually have the right to kicks souths out.

they could just as easily be sitting with North Sydney in the “a few things did go wrong” group.
 
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Easy to say now. Souths took the risk and everything went right for them.

from memory, the NRL was found in court to actually have the right to kicks souths out.

they could just as easily be sitting with North Sydney in the “a few things did go wrong” group.
I wouldn't exactly call 2 years in the wilderness "everything went right" but I take your point.
 

Wb1234

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Easy to say now. Souths took the risk and everything went right for them.

from memory, the NRL was found in court to actually have the right to kicks souths out.

they could just as easily be sitting with North Sydney in the “a few things did go wrong” group.

By the time news ltd won the appeal against souths return they realised their error in omitting them
 

Wb1234

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This is a good podcast for the tigers. The guy who runs it family has strong ties to Balmain going back to the early 70s
 

BunniesMan

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If the clubs that merged or folded in the 90s were just able to hang on for a few more years literally all of them would be alive now. When tv rights deals were being counted in the millions there wasn't enough to go around. Now they're counted in the billions and we can easily afford 20 clubs. It is sad we lost so much history and heritage. Most of the historic AFL clubs survived that awful 90s period and now they'll last forever.

Clubs like the Tigers and Magpies could have easily been looking towards their 120th birthday celebrations in the coming years.

Instead we had the Norths-Manly debacle. Luckily Manly was able to be reborn but sadly we lost Norths.

The St George-Illawarra merger was the least worst of the lot. It basically turned into the Dragons just partially relocating but retaining their colours and brand.

The Wests-Balmain baby has turned into this mess.

If the TV revolution was fast forwarded just 5-10 years it all would have been avoided.
 
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