Documents detailing the extent of the breakdown in trust among board members have led to calls for Liquor and Gaming NSW to step in to save the Wests Tigers club from its owners.
A series of explosive emails and documents have led to calls for the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority to step in amid a bitter dispute between warring factions at the Wests Tigers.
Now the fallout has spilled onto the Wests Tigers board, with Romero recently threatening legal action against O’Farrell should he hold a Tigers board meeting without her blessing. She also said that media leaks from the review, which compounded her concerns over the independence and relevance of the work conducted, were grounds for the HBG to consider commissioning a second review.
That a large portion of people interviewed were not from within the Wests Tigers, raising questions over the relevance of their opinions; Romero sent an email to O’Farrell on July 14 and copied in a number of key stakeholders, including a member of the HBG human resources team and a legal representative from Clayton Utz law firm.
The recruitment of independent Wests Tigers directors. HBG argued that O’Farrell should reapply for his job and said therefore the club would need to appoint four, not three, independent directors. Under the labels “observations” and “high-level observations”, the Crawford-Barnier review found that: The Wests Tigers board is not independent of the governance of its owners. This makes decision-making slow and cumbersome, has an impact on clear communication and creates uncertainty as to the ability of the Wests Tigers board to set a firm strategy and its authority to implement that strategy;
The divisiveness of the foundation club “cultural warlords” has been a major distraction from the opportunity that is Wests Tigers. Resolving this distraction involves properly respecting the heritage of the foundation clubs and deeply embedding their DNA in Wests Tigers. The grievances were in response to HBG’s decision to ask O’Farrell to reapply for his job and a perceived backflipping on the independent review. It was also provoked by fears that at least one board member was trying to revive the Magpies.
“Consequently, the HBG will fall under the control of a cabal of four, supported by an outdated debenture holder system . Their misguided ambition is to see the Western Suburbs Magpies replace the Wests Tigers in the NRL competition.”
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