Wests Tigers club news

[Tiger05]

We need a new owner...HB group is a cancer

This is my read. We don't know but this is where the problem appears to be.

They just sacked the 4 independent directors and claim it's about the jersey color. Some thing is off.

 

[Tigerm]

 

[Tigerm]

It’s all blowing up, the rivers of blood are flowing.

My prediction is that Richo and Benji are likely to step down.A key reason being their close relationship with the ousted directors.

These are personal friends and sponsors.

I hope not.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I hope not.

HBG says life can go on without the Independent Directors, that Benji and Richo can stay, but basically, Richo and Benji are being asked to choose sides.

Make no mistake my friends, this is nothing short of the bloodiest of civil wars.

We find ourselves as the prize.

 

[Old Time Tiger]

This is my read. We don't know but this is where the problem appears to be.

They just sacked the 4 independent directors and claim it's about the jersey color. Some thing is off.

The jersey color is a great laugh, I just looked up images of tigers and couldn’t believe it, they are predominantly orange/gold, because the team is known as the Tigers !! Perhaps the western variant are predominantly black but can’t find any images of them, anyone help me there?

 

[innsaneink]

It’s all blowing up, the rivers of blood are flowing.

My prediction is that Richo and Benji are likely to step down.A key reason being their close relationship with the ousted directors.

These are personal friends and sponsors.

I dont think Benji would step down...i feel hes too invested in the team to just walk away. Hes created quite a good positive culture based on family which the players have bought into.
Weve seen with Galvoutgate the players have Benjis back...he loves the club and his team, its genuine

I dont know how long he could toe the HBG company line of BS, that would be extremely difficult...this is where he needs Richo...but Richo also will need to paint a happy face too....a shitty awkward way for them to have to work under

 

[Marshall_magic]

There are three groups
1. Balmain Tigers fans
2. Western Suburbs fans
3. Wests Tigers fans

sadly only groups 1 and 2 are on our board. When they f**k around like they have here it stops people in those groups moving into group 3.

I was 8 years old when both clubs played their final first grade match. I am now 35, the fact this crap is still ongoing is absurd.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I dont think Benji would step down...i feel hes too invested in the team to just walk away. Hes created quite a good positive culture based on family which the players have bought into.
Weve seen with Galvoutgate the players have Benjis back...he loves the club and his team, its genuine

I dont know how long he could toe the HBG company line of BS, that would be extremely difficult...this is where he needs Richo...but Richo also will need to paint a happy face too....a shitty awkward way for them to have to work under

You have put up a good argument, but my understanding is that Benji might not have even been our coach without the power and influence of at least one of the independent directors contacts.

So it’s a bit tough of HBG to put him in this position.

Love him or hate him, Richo is a hired gun basically. I’m going to watch his response with interest. He’s tight with Barry. The very little I’ve dealt with Barry in the real world, has been quite positive.

It’s been suggested here and no doubt elsewhere that there is a lot more to HBG setting the club on fire than we know about or is being reported.

And I don’t think Benji is as loyal to HBG as they may think.

It’s really strange that they think it can all be business as usual.

They took all the ID’s down. That’s a massive prize fighter smack to the face. A no looker.

Barry is a prize political operative, very clever guy, HBG had better be ready for a fight.

The stakes must be sky high for them to move with such force and might. To disturb the promise the club has been selling.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Any just fans out there, you’d better get a move on and buy a membership.

During these civil wars, it’s very important to have a tangible stake in what’s going on.

I might criticise membership (and the club) through bad experiences, but you won’t see me running away.

So pucker up ladies, you ring the club tomorrow and ffs get it done.

Enlist now, your club needs you.

 

[Nutz]

Any just fans out there, you’d better get a move on and buy a membership.

During these civil wars, it’s very important to have a tangible stake in what’s going on.

I might criticise membership (and the club) through bad experiences, but you won’t see me running away.

So pucker up ladies, you ring the club tomorrow and ffs get it done.

Enlist now, your club needs you.

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Have you got your member pack yet, mine has been sitting in dispatch for nearly 2 weeks.

 

[Fordy20]

Oh please! What benefit is there buying a Wests Tigers membership? It's a fanclub, you don't get any voting rights. To have any voting rights, you would have had to have bought a HBG membership or Magpies FC membership over three years ago, applied to have your membership upgraded and have it approved. Not that it makes a difference, because the Wests Ashfield debenture holders control both boards and cannot be removed.

The fans tried to do the right thing. They asked HBG to review operations and while the pressure was on HBG obliged. HBG commissioned the Crawford-Barnier report. It was conducted in good faith with the support of all involved it's findings were tabled. The report called for an independent board. As a result, the old board was sacked, Pascoe stood down and Barry and Richo were appointed chair and CEO, ostensibly to oversee the transition to an independent board. However, there can never truly be an independent board until the governance and ownership model changes.

Consider this, over the last two years, Richo has reportedly turned the club around off the field, just has Benji has turned the club around on the field. Off the field, membership is up, sponsorship is up and the club is turning a profit. On the field the club has avoided the wooden spoon and finally looks to putting together a competitive side. So the findings of the report were vindicated. When given a free hand and a taste of independence, the club started showing all the signs of having sustained success. But now, despite this change in fortunes, the chairman that enabled and oversaw that success is being sacked along with the other independent directors.

This should demonstrate to all and sundry, despite the effort going into uniting as the Wests Tigers, rebranding Wests Ashfield as Holman-Barnes Group, conducting the Crawford-Barnier report, sacking the old board, appointing Barry and Richo, making all the noise about independence, that all of that was lie. It was a dog and pony show, just window dressing. The Wests Ashfield debenture holders were paying lip service to the fans, all to distract them from what they should have been doing from the very start: rioting in the streets, demanding that the NRL take the club back and return it to the fans where it rightly belongs.

The fans tried to be reasonable and work with the owners, but now that Barry and the independent board members have been sacked, it's clear there is no other recourse left. The current dinosaurs calling the shots have shown over the last 50 years that they are not fit to run an NRL club, nor are they capable of standing aside and letting someone do it for them. The fans need to have a mechanism to hold the people running the Wests Tigers accountable. Whether that's as shareholders in a public company like the Broncos or as members of a not-for-profit incorporated association like the Eels and Bulldogs, it doesn't matter.

What matters is the fans wresting control of Wests Tigers back from the small, unaccountable cabal who exert total control over the club. Now it looks like the only way to do this is to petition the ARLC, NRL, Peter V'landys, Andrew Abdo and anyone who will listen to revoke the NRL licence from Wests Tigers Pty Ltd and place the West Tigers NRL licence, branding and intellectual property into hands that actually wants to see the Wests Tigers thrive.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Have you got your member pack yet, mine has been sitting in dispatch for nearly 2 weeks.

No, I haven’t received it.

The difference between you and I is that I don’t have any expectations that they will deliver when they promise.

I wouldn’t let our tech guys touch a 1980’s hand held calculator. Geeks but without any brains. Unemployable anywhere else.

I’ve got a seat on the bus… I just can’t find it.

Anyway, if we are driving off a cliff, I’m f**king there. No piking.

We are a tough membership. We can pretty much take anything.

Spoons: no problems
Treachery: piece of cake
Matey jobs: yawn..
Civil war at board level: we wrote the book.

This is our club, this is who we are.

We were built for tough times.

 

[WA Tiger]

Maybe Luai could activate his get out clause now that the clubs in chaos. Mmmm prob not. his eyes are still showing $ signs and he knows he’s proven nothing to himself, or to any club about being Batman and is not likely to either.

 

[Tigerm]

Oh please! What benefit is there buying a Wests Tigers membership? It's a fanclub, you don't get any voting rights. To have any voting rights, you would have had to have bought a HBG membership or Magpies FC membership over three years ago, applied to have your membership upgraded and have it approved. Not that it makes a difference, because the Wests Ashfield debenture holders control both boards and cannot be removed.

The fans tried to do the right thing. They asked HBG to review operations and while the pressure was on HBG obliged. HBG commissioned the Crawford-Barnier report. It was conducted in good faith with the support of all involved it's findings were tabled. The report called for an independent board. As a result, the old board was sacked, Pascoe stood down and Barry and Richo were appointed chair and CEO, ostensibly to oversee the transition to an independent board. However, there can never truly be an independent board until the governance and ownership model changes.

Consider this, over the last two years, Richo has reportedly turned the club around off the field, just has Benji has turned the club around on the field. Off the field, membership is up, sponsorship is up and the club is turning a profit. On the field the club has avoided the wooden spoon and finally looks to putting together a competitive side. So the findings of the report were vindicated. When given a free hand and a taste of independence, the club started showing all the signs of having sustained success. But now, despite this change in fortunes, the chairman that enabled and oversaw that success is being sacked along with the other independent directors.

This should demonstrate to all and sundry, despite the effort going into uniting as the Wests Tigers, rebranding Wests Ashfield as Holman-Barnes Group, conducting the Crawford-Barnier report, sacking the old board, appointing Barry and Richo, making all the noise about independence, that all of that was lie. It was a dog and pony show, just window dressing. The Wests Ashfield debenture holders were paying lip service to the fans, all to distract them from what they should have been doing from the very start: rioting in the streets, demanding that the NRL take the club back and return it to the fans where it rightly belongs.

The fans tried to be reasonable and work with the owners, but now that Barry and the independent board members have been sacked, it's clear there is no other recourse left. The current dinosaurs calling the shots have shown over the last 50 years that they are not fit to run an NRL club, nor are they capable of standing aside and letting someone do it for them. The fans need to have a mechanism to hold the people running the Wests Tigers accountable. Whether that's as shareholders in a public company like the Broncos or as members of a not-for-profit incorporated association like the Eels and Bulldogs, it doesn't matter.

What matters is the fans wresting control of Wests Tigers back from the small, unaccountable cabal who exert total control over the club. Now it looks like the only way to do this is to petition the ARLC, NRL, Peter V'landys, Andrew Abdo and anyone who will listen to revoke the NRL licence from Wests Tigers Pty Ltd and place the West Tigers NRL licence, branding and intellectual property into hands that actually wants to see the Wests Tigers thrive.

Yes, we didn't need this distraction now, maybe they are worried that we are finally going to succeed?

 

[TheDefinitionOfMadness]

Any just fans out there, you’d better get a move on and buy a membership.

During these civil wars, it’s very important to have a tangible stake in what’s going on.

I might criticise membership (and the club) through bad experiences, but you won’t see me running away.

So pucker up ladies, you ring the club tomorrow and ffs get it done.

Enlist now, your club needs you.

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Why?

As a member you have no voting rights and never will. You have absolutely no say in the club.

With so few games at LO now against Sydney based teams, and with the NRL grants to the team and club, they can do without my money.

And if this some power play to change the team back to the western suburbs magpies, well they can do without my support as well

 

[Ron's_Mate]

Boardroom dramas could cost the Tigers their star duo. Fans should be marching in the streets
Christian Nicolussi
December 3, 2025 — 5.00am

Wests Tigers fans would have rolled their eyes when news broke of the latest boardroom dramas to beset their club.

Who cares, they would have thought. Just tell us which players we are keeping, which players we are chasing, and how early we should meet at the pub before the first home game at Leichhardt.

Are you with me?

Well, those Tigers fans should be concerned because the Holman Barnes Group’s decision to torpedo four independent board members, including chairman Barry O’Farrell, has now delayed – and potentially jeopardised – what should have been two good news stories.

Jahream Bula is one of the most exciting fullbacks in the game, and one of the sweetest movers the Tigers have had on the books since coach Benji Marshall was strutting his stuff.

Bula also happens to be a free agent, who has been linked more than once to western Sydney rivals Canterbury. He even popped up at a Bulldogs game last season to cheer one of his best mates, Lachie Galvin.

Sources with knowledge of the situation not authorised to speak publicly confirmed the Tigers were close to announcing a new deal for Bula that would have locked him in long-term.

Confirmation that Bula was staying put would have been the ultimate early Christmas gift for the true believers, but the good news would not have stopped there.

The same sources suggested Jarome Luai was ready to scrap the much-publicised escape clause from his five-year mega deal, guaranteeing he would remain a Tiger until the end of 2029.

Luai has always spoken about family and loyalty. How on earth can the bloke commit to an organisation that has shown absolutely no love or loyalty when it comes to its board, and now left their CEO, Shane Richardson, weighing up whether to walk?

The first thing Richardson did when he was appointed to the top job at the Tigers at the end of 2023 was make the Luai deal happen. He parked the brief pursuit of Addin Fonua-Blake, and threw the kitchen sink at the four-time Penrith premiership winner.

Now, rather than celebrating Bula’s new deal, and Luai’s decision to ditch the clause, we’re now talking about the Tigers and their board, whether Balmain will remain a part of the forced marriage with Wests Magpies, and whether there is too much orange in the playing strip for next year.

Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne, who is as passionate as they come when it comes to the Tigers, is urging fans to gather on Saturday, December 13 at Pratten Park, one of the old spiritual homes of the Western Suburbs Magpies, and march to the nearby Wests Ashfield Leagues Club to demand the Holman Barnes Group resign.

It is a big call by Byrne who, like all Tigers fans, has had enough. Just to rub it in, fans should wear orange.

Richardson has been in the game 32 years and never been sacked. He is determined to get things done, and in the past 12 months, has helped the club’s revenue increase by $3m, secured $110m in funding for stadium upgrades, and witnessed crowds lift by 45 per cent.

The Tigers need Richardson. They need Bula and Luai. They need passionate supporters in influential positions like Byrne. They need a decent human being like O’Farrell.

They needed a feelgood story. And they had two ready to roll.

Boardroom dramas could cost the Tigers their star duo. Fans should be marching in the streets

This week’s boardroom bloodletting has potentially jeopardised two key contractual developments. Wests Tigers fans should turn out in force for a protest at Pratten Park next weekend.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Ned Kelly]

Boardroom dramas could cost the Tigers their star duo. Fans should be marching in the streets
Christian Nicolussi
December 3, 2025 — 5.00am

Wests Tigers fans would have rolled their eyes when news broke of the latest boardroom dramas to beset their club.

Who cares, they would have thought. Just tell us which players we are keeping, which players we are chasing, and how early we should meet at the pub before the first home game at Leichhardt.

Are you with me?

No, the only thing wrong with this article is suggesting Wests Tigers fans would be shrugging their shoulders and saying " Oh well, nothing new. No big deal"

If the board HBG get away with this I see us maybe avoiding the spoon for another year or two before going on to set new records for longest run of wooden spoons and another decade at least of not finishing in the top half of the ladder.

 

[Nutz]

Oh please! What benefit is there buying a Wests Tigers membership? It's a fanclub, you don't get any voting rights. To have any voting rights, you would have had to have bought a HBG membership or Magpies FC membership over three years ago, applied to have your membership upgraded and have it approved. Not that it makes a difference, because the Wests Ashfield debenture holders control both boards and cannot be removed.

The fans tried to do the right thing. They asked HBG to review operations and while the pressure was on HBG obliged. HBG commissioned the Crawford-Barnier report. It was conducted in good faith with the support of all involved it's findings were tabled. The report called for an independent board. As a result, the old board was sacked, Pascoe stood down and Barry and Richo were appointed chair and CEO, ostensibly to oversee the transition to an independent board. However, there can never truly be an independent board until the governance and ownership model changes.

Consider this, over the last two years, Richo has reportedly turned the club around off the field, just has Benji has turned the club around on the field. Off the field, membership is up, sponsorship is up and the club is turning a profit. On the field the club has avoided the wooden spoon and finally looks to putting together a competitive side. So the findings of the report were vindicated. When given a free hand and a taste of independence, the club started showing all the signs of having sustained success. But now, despite this change in fortunes, the chairman that enabled and oversaw that success is being sacked along with the other independent directors.

This should demonstrate to all and sundry, despite the effort going into uniting as the Wests Tigers, rebranding Wests Ashfield as Holman-Barnes Group, conducting the Crawford-Barnier report, sacking the old board, appointing Barry and Richo, making all the noise about independence, that all of that was lie. It was a dog and pony show, just window dressing. The Wests Ashfield debenture holders were paying lip service to the fans, all to distract them from what they should have been doing from the very start: rioting in the streets, demanding that the NRL take the club back and return it to the fans where it rightly belongs.

The fans tried to be reasonable and work with the owners, but now that Barry and the independent board members have been sacked, it's clear there is no other recourse left. The current dinosaurs calling the shots have shown over the last 50 years that they are not fit to run an NRL club, nor are they capable of standing aside and letting someone do it for them. The fans need to have a mechanism to hold the people running the Wests Tigers accountable. Whether that's as shareholders in a public company like the Broncos or as members of a not-for-profit incorporated association like the Eels and Bulldogs, it doesn't matter.

What matters is the fans wresting control of Wests Tigers back from the small, unaccountable cabal who exert total control over the club. Now it looks like the only way to do this is to petition the ARLC, NRL, Peter V'landys, Andrew Abdo and anyone who will listen to revoke the NRL licence from Wests Tigers Pty Ltd and place the West Tigers NRL licence, branding and intellectual property into hands that actually wants to see the Wests Tigers thrive.

Good points as usual Fordy.
The way I see it too mate is it's not just us.
It’s not always only Wests Tigers that have this issue. Rights and governance vary a lot across NRL clubs — depends on their ownership / “leagues-club vs private / corporate” structure.
Some clubs are structured under a “leagues-club” model: the club is member-owned or member-governed. In those cases, members typically have voting rights — at general meetings, for board elections/oversight, constitutional changes etc.
The Canterbury Bulldogs Club is typically listed as a “leagues-club" and thus members have voting rights as part of their constitution.
Even among clubs affiliated with a leagues-club, the relationship between “leagues-club members” and the football club’s board isn’t always direct.
For example with Parramatta Eels: you can be a “member” of the associated leagues-club, but that doesn’t automatically equate to direct voting or governance control over the Eels football club itself.
Which Club has voting rights for normal members?
Bulldogs (leagues club)
Rabbitohs Yes
Sharks Yes
Panthers Yes
Knights Yes-ish
Sea Eagles Yes-ish
Cowboys Yes
Dragons Yes-ish
Eels ?
Roosters ?
Broncos No
StormNo
Warriors No
Titans No
Dolphins, yes as leagues club member,
Raiders not by std membership.
Wests Tigers not by std membership unless your a full member of Wests Ashfield Leagues Club, and even then voting influence on the football board is extremely limited.
Ironically ALC come under the HBG umbrella group who's new office will be our new Balmain Leagues Club that we've waited so long for to be rebuilt.
Why we won't be united...
Wests Ashfield Leagues Club — majority owner (≈ 90%+) and they won't relinquish power/control...no way.
We are customers, not members.
I am a season ticket holder just because of the few perks and hoping for change as I'm nearly 70)
In order to be a supporter based club we need to convert Wests Tigers into a member-owned club.
Both Wests Ashfield and Balmain would have to relinquish their control of the Wests Tigers.
Who the pays for it?
Both would as silent sponsers/partners..... won't happen.
The only way I see it is the change the constitution to a member leagues club model.
BHG would still be the major financier and would would take the majority of profits.
Imo, both clubs Western Suburbs and Balmain should have adopted this model from the outset where a seperate Wests Tigers League Club should have been built, pokies and all, at a seperate location (maybe where our COE sits) and we have a united three grade football club where the Magpies and Balmain are feeder clubs skimming the froth of any profits gained. Now we have basically 3 clubs.
I've been saying for years now that we are still a divided club. It's taken nearly a generation to make changes but the cancer still resides in twits like Burgess pulling the strings and people who aren't committed to one football club.
One name
One jersey
One logo
One ground
One membership
One team (NRL, reserve grade and Flegg) the rest feeder clubs.
Does that sound more like a Western Suburbs model or a Wests Tigers one?

 

[Tigerm]

Good points as usual Fordy.
The way I see it too mate is it's not just us.
It’s not always only Wests Tigers that have this issue. Rights and governance vary a lot across NRL clubs — depends on their ownership / “leagues-club vs private / corporate” structure.
Some clubs are structured under a “leagues-club” model: the club is member-owned or member-governed. In those cases, members typically have voting rights — at general meetings, for board elections/oversight, constitutional changes etc.
The Canterbury Bulldogs Club is typically listed as a “leagues-club" and thus members have voting rights as part of their constitution.
Even among clubs affiliated with a leagues-club, the relationship between “leagues-club members” and the football club’s board isn’t always direct.
For example with Parramatta Eels: you can be a “member” of the associated leagues-club, but that doesn’t automatically equate to direct voting or governance control over the Eels football club itself.
Which Club has voting rights for normal members?
Bulldogs (leagues club)
Rabbitohs Yes
Sharks Yes
Panthers Yes
Knights Yes-ish
Sea Eagles Yes-ish
Cowboys Yes
Dragons Yes-ish
Eels ?
Roosters ?
Broncos No
StormNo
Warriors No
Titans No
Dolphins, yes as leagues club member,
Raiders not by std membership.
Wests Tigers not by std membership unless your a full member of Wests Ashfield Leagues Club, and even then voting influence on the football board is extremely limited.
Ironically ALC come under the HBG umbrella group who's new office will be our new Balmain Leagues Club that we've waited so long for to be rebuilt.
Why we won't be united...
Wests Ashfield Leagues Club — majority owner (≈ 90%+) and they won't relinquish power/control...no way.
We are customers, not members.
I am a season ticket holder just because of the few perks and hoping for change as I'm nearly 70)
In order to be a supporter based club we need to convert Wests Tigers into a member-owned club.
Both Wests Ashfield and Balmain would have to relinquish their control of the Wests Tigers.
Who the pays for it?
Both would as silent sponsers/partners..... won't happen.
The only way I see it is the change the constitution to a member leagues club model.
BHG would still be the major financier and would would take the majority of profits.
Imo, both clubs Western Suburbs and Balmain should have adopted this model from the outset where a seperate Wests Tigers League Club should have been built, pokies and all, at a seperate location (maybe where our COE sits) and we have a united three grade football club where the Magpies and Balmain are feeder clubs skimming the froth of any profits gained. Now we have basically 3 clubs.
I've been saying for years now that we are still a divided club. It's taken nearly a generation to make changes but the cancer still resides in twits like Burgess pulling the strings and people who aren't committed to one football club.
One name
One jersey
One logo
One ground
One membership
One team (NRL, reserve grade and Flegg) the rest feeder clubs.
Does that sound more like a Western Suburbs model or a Wests Tigers one?

How much would it cost to be a member of a member owned club?
Unfortunately, HBG hold all the aces financially, and TBF, if they didn't do what they did, we could well have been finished some years ago.
That's not to say, there can't be change, but it would probably have to come from the NRL and I don't see that happening, unless of course they want a team in another area or country?
Our best hope, is that these shenanigans don't affect the football club now and into the future.

 

[WA Tiger]

Boardroom dramas could cost the Tigers their star duo. Fans should be marching in the streets
Christian Nicolussi
December 3, 2025 — 5.00am

Wests Tigers fans would have rolled their eyes when news broke of the latest boardroom dramas to beset their club.

Who cares, they would have thought. Just tell us which players we are keeping, which players we are chasing, and how early we should meet at the pub before the first home game at Leichhardt.

Are you with me?

Well, those Tigers fans should be concerned because the Holman Barnes Group’s decision to torpedo four independent board members, including chairman Barry O’Farrell, has now delayed – and potentially jeopardised – what should have been two good news stories.

Jahream Bula is one of the most exciting fullbacks in the game, and one of the sweetest movers the Tigers have had on the books since coach Benji Marshall was strutting his stuff.

Bula also happens to be a free agent, who has been linked more than once to western Sydney rivals Canterbury. He even popped up at a Bulldogs game last season to cheer one of his best mates, Lachie Galvin.

Sources with knowledge of the situation not authorised to speak publicly confirmed the Tigers were close to announcing a new deal for Bula that would have locked him in long-term.

Confirmation that Bula was staying put would have been the ultimate early Christmas gift for the true believers, but the good news would not have stopped there.

The same sources suggested Jarome Luai was ready to scrap the much-publicised escape clause from his five-year mega deal, guaranteeing he would remain a Tiger until the end of 2029.

Luai has always spoken about family and loyalty. How on earth can the bloke commit to an organisation that has shown absolutely no love or loyalty when it comes to its board, and now left their CEO, Shane Richardson, weighing up whether to walk?

The first thing Richardson did when he was appointed to the top job at the Tigers at the end of 2023 was make the Luai deal happen. He parked the brief pursuit of Addin Fonua-Blake, and threw the kitchen sink at the four-time Penrith premiership winner.

Now, rather than celebrating Bula’s new deal, and Luai’s decision to ditch the clause, we’re now talking about the Tigers and their board, whether Balmain will remain a part of the forced marriage with Wests Magpies, and whether there is too much orange in the playing strip for next year.

Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne, who is as passionate as they come when it comes to the Tigers, is urging fans to gather on Saturday, December 13 at Pratten Park, one of the old spiritual homes of the Western Suburbs Magpies, and march to the nearby Wests Ashfield Leagues Club to demand the Holman Barnes Group resign.

It is a big call by Byrne who, like all Tigers fans, has had enough. Just to rub it in, fans should wear orange.

Richardson has been in the game 32 years and never been sacked. He is determined to get things done, and in the past 12 months, has helped the club’s revenue increase by $3m, secured $110m in funding for stadium upgrades, and witnessed crowds lift by 45 per cent.

The Tigers need Richardson. They need Bula and Luai. They need passionate supporters in influential positions like Byrne. They need a decent human being like O’Farrell.

They needed a feelgood story. And they had two ready to roll.

Boardroom dramas could cost the Tigers their star duo. Fans should be marching in the streets

This week’s boardroom bloodletting has potentially jeopardised two key contractual developments. Wests Tigers fans should turn out in force for a protest at Pratten Park next weekend.

www.smh.com.au

These so called experts only skirting the surface as usual.. same as when Galvin was leaving
We definitely don’t need Bula with the $ he’s asking . Even Benji has made that clear. And we definitely don’t need the luckiest guy on earth Luai for the same reason and his inability to close out games