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<\/p>\nTigers\u2019 legend Steve Roach admits he has nearly lost all emotion and faith in the club amid their continuing infighting, which is hurting their chances of success on the field. <\/p>\n
There is no prouder Tigers supporter than Roach, who played 185 games for the club and lost two Grand Finals, while also playing 17 Origins for the Blues and 20 Tests for the Kangaroos. <\/p>\n
But the latest board saga, which has seen four board members sacked before being reinstated in a remarkable backflip and CEO Shane Richardson forced out, has made Roach pessimistic about the chances of the joint venture club getting it right off the field. <\/p>\n
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Watch The Ashes 2025\/26 LIVE and ad-break free during play with FOX CRICKET on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking on The Fox League Podcast before the decision to reinstate the directors was reported, Roach lamented he has nearly lost all hope for the club to return to its glory days. <\/p>\n \u201cYou know what I am almost run out of emotion,\u201d Roach said on the Fox League Podcast. <\/p>\n \u201cDo you know what I mean? I\u2019m all of a sudden rats ass about it, to tell you the honest truth. It\u2019s been going on for so long now and nothing\u2019s gonna change. <\/p>\n \u201cI do believe that the Holman Barnes group has 90% of the ownership. I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re gonna change it.\u201d <\/p>\n Roach believes the biggest losers in the messy board saga are the players, the coach and the fans, who work so hard to take pride in their team. <\/p>\n \u201cLook, the people I feel for is Benji Marshall, the team and the fans,\u201d Roach said. <\/p>\n 7 Tigers players threaten to quit! | 02:05<\/p>\n \u201cNow, the fans marching is a great idea, but for what reason? If someone owns 90% of something, boy, it\u2019s not gonna make any difference. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the same as the fans asking for some money back after they\u2019ve got their membership. <\/p>\n \u201cDo you think the Barnes-Holman group care about it?<\/p>\n \u201cNow you understand why I\u2019m worn out. I\u2019m like everyone, I\u2019m a fan. But I feel for the players, I feel for Benji, I feel for the fans.\u201d <\/p>\n MORE NRL NEWS<\/p>\n NOV 1 LIVE: Dragons\u2019 shock new $5m raid for star; Bulldogs enforcer inks extension<\/a><\/p>\n COWBOYS STATE OF PLAY: Blowtorch on star as spine headaches pressure Payten <\/a> \u2018WHY I HAD CLAUSES\u2019: Tigers\u2019 infighting could cost them three best juniors and Luai<\/a><\/p>\n Steve Roach is fed up with the Tigers.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n Roach is furious that the Holman Barnes Group are allowed to operate under the name of a club great and still do things to destabilise the Tigers from within. <\/p>\n \u201cThe thing that really gets me down is this would not be happening if Keith Barnes was running it and they\u2019re using his name, the Barnes Holman group,\u201d Roach said. <\/p>\n \u201cAnd no one\u2019s ever said this, but I\u2019m gonna say it. He was like a father figure to all of us. He kept us all together. He was a wonderful mentor for us all. <\/p>\n \u201cThere was always harmony in the club and none of this back-fighting and infighting and getting rid of directors. <\/p>\n \u201cI believe that they paid to get these independent directors in. A lot of money to get them in, and then they sacked them. I don\u2019t know what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n Roach feels sorry for Benji Marshall, the players and the fans.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n Roach also took issue with the Tigers\u2019 decision to axe Richardson and while he is not fully supportive of the ex-CEO, he believes he was doing good things for the club. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve had my blues with Shane Richardson, but I\u2019ll tell you what, if you\u2019re sitting back and looking at it all now, he\u2019s done some good things for the Tigers, and now he\u2019s gone,\u201d Roach said. <\/p>\n The legendary prop understands the game has changed in the modern era, but believes if the fans are not held in the highest regard, it is not a game he wants to be a part of anymore. <\/p>\n \u201cIf it\u2019s changed now, well, leave me out,\u201d Roach said. <\/p>\n \u201cIf it\u2019s all about money and sponsorship and all that, and it\u2019s not about the fans, leave me out.\u201d<\/p>\n ‘There will be no one left to coach!’ | 13:06<\/p>\n Like the Titans who have recently undergone an overhaul, Roach believes the Tigers are a sleeping giant that would have so many more fans if they were successful on the field. <\/p>\n \u201cCan you imagine if they become successful?\u201d Roach said. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll go to the country a fair bit and you wouldn\u2019t believe the amount of people that follow the Tigers. <\/p>\n \u201cOh! Man, I\u2019m telling you, if they were up in the top four. The Tigers I\u2019m telling you, the emblem and the colours capture people\u2019s imagination.\u201d <\/p>\n The club\u2019s state of the art Centre of Excellence facility also has the potential help them attract players, but Roach believes the constant off-field drama is hurting the club\u2019s ability to sign the game\u2019s biggest stars. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable. It\u2019s fantastic, but what are they doing with it?\u201d Roach said. <\/p>\n Tigers CEO Shane Richardson resigns | 02:05<\/p>\n \u201cHow hard is it now with all this turmoil? You\u2019re talking about continuity and getting everything together and trying to be as one. <\/p>\n \u201cNow, if I\u2019m a player and someone says to me, after everything that\u2019s gone on now and before, if I\u2019m a player and Benji comes to me and says, mate, I want you to come to the Tigers and I\u2019d say, are you serious? How are they going to attract players?\u201d <\/p>\n While he will always bleed black and gold, but Roach admits the club is a shadow of its former self. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s sad what is happening and how many people are like me, mate? I love that club,\u201d Roach said.<\/p>\n \u201cI love what it was all about, but it\u2019s nothing like it was.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tigers\u2019 legend Steve Roach admits he has nearly lost all emotion and faith in the club amid their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,9421,51854,182821,189377,188013,189376,96720,763,189379,189382,181251,183424,189383,189380,4746,189378,761,762,158,189381,9420,188099,85,51349,47895,184154,187998,39956,4515],"class_list":["post-340857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benji-marshall","tag-board-members","tag-board-saga","tag-continuing-infighting","tag-enforcer-inks-extension","tag-fans-marching","tag-father-figure","tag-fox-league","tag-group-care","tag-highest-regard","tag-holman-barnes-group","tag-independent-directors","tag-keith-barnes","tag-legendary-prop","tag-mark-st-john","tag-messy-board-saga","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sad-admission","tag-shane-richardson","tag-spine-headaches","tag-sports","tag-state-of-play","tag-steve-roach","tag-the-fox-league-podcast","tag-tigers-ceo","tag-tigers-legend","tag-wests-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340857","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=340857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}