{"id":331213,"date":"2025-12-06T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331213\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:04:13","slug":"departed-manly-ceo-linked-with-move-to-wests-tigers-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331213\/","title":{"rendered":"Departed Manly CEO linked with move to Wests Tigers &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month after departing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/manly-sea-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manly Sea Eagles<\/a>, former CEO Tony Mestrov has reportedly found himself linked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/wests-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wests Tigers<\/a> as a potential replacement for incumbent CEO Shane Richardson.<\/p>\n<p>Currently at the centre of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> integrity unit, rumours have emerged throughout the week that Richardson could become the latest off-field figure to depart the Tigers following the sacking of Chairman Barry O&#8217;Farrell and three independent directors.<\/p>\n<p>Despite turning things around at the club and taking the Tigers off the bottom of the ladder, Richardson has been linked with a surprising exit as the Holman Barnes Group &#8211; the majority owner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/wests-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wests Tigers<\/a> &#8211; has decided to make mass changes, especially in personnel.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl-legends-say-tigers-instability-is-costing-them-young-stars-229435\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL legends say Tigers&#8217; instability is costing them young stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/wests-tigers-ceo-richardson-at-centre-of-nrl-integrity-unit-probe-after-whistleblower-tip-off-20251205-p5nl1j.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, Tony Mestrov has now emerged as a potential interim candidate to take over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/wests-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wests Tigers<\/a> CEO role if Richardson decides to depart the club.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after he will officially depart the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/manly-sea-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> on December 19 and will be replaced by former front-rower and club legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jason-king\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason King<\/a>, who amassed 217 matches for the side throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>With Richardson&#8217;s future set to be decided on Monday, the publication understands that allegations have emerged about serious concerns regarding his conduct at the club.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that a whistleblower raised concerns about the money being paid to Enrichd Group for their marketing, branding and digital consultancy and the employment of two members of the Richardson family.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/former-tigers-captain-slams-club-over-recent-controversies-229424\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Tigers captain slams club over recent controversies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Holman Barnes Group is aware of the NRL&#8217;s interest in this matter and at this point in time we cannot comment,\u201d HBG deputy chairman Francesco Primerano said via the publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A month after departing the Manly Sea Eagles, former CEO Tony Mestrov has reportedly found himself linked to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-331213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}