{"id":341270,"date":"2025-12-11T08:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341270\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:16:37","slug":"barry-ofarrell-to-be-reinstated-as-wests-tigers-chair-after-club-owners-bow-to-nrl-pressure-wests-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341270\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry O\u2019Farrell to be reinstated as Wests Tigers chair after club owners bow to NRL pressure | Wests Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barry O\u2019Farrell is set to return as Wests Tigers<\/a> chair alongside his ousted independent directors after the joint-venture club\u2019s owners bowed to NRL demands.<\/p>\n

In the latest bizarre twist after 10 days of Tigers turmoil, the Holman Barnes Group (HBG) on Thursday agreed to invite back the board members sacked last Monday.<\/p>\n

It came after the NRL<\/a> urged the club\u2019s majority owners to reconsider their stance, after head office met with the sacked independent directors earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The quartet of O\u2019Farrell, Michelle McDowell, Annabelle Williams and Charlie Viola were on Thursday considering their options, but the majority were expected to return.<\/p>\n

The HBG hold the licence with the NRL for the Wests Tigers, while having a 90% ownership of the club.<\/p>\n

The NRL had been considering intervening in the situation for the past week, while making inquiries about the political turmoil.<\/p>\n

The Tigers board is due to meet again on Monday, where its structure going forward is set to be high on the agenda.<\/p>\n

The situation is not expected to have any bearing on CEO Shane Richardson\u2019s decision to resign on Monday, with the veteran administrator not set to return.<\/p>\n

Former Central Coast Mariners boss Shaun Mielekamp is expected to be announced as Richardson\u2019s replacement, in an interim role, by the end of the week.<\/p>\n

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Mielekamp, who joined the Tigers last year and took over as head of football in October, is also the frontrunner to take the role on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n

Outgoing Manly boss Tony Mestrov and former St George Illawarra CEO Ryan Webb are also considered to be other serious options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry O\u2019Farrell is set to return as Wests Tigers chair alongside his ousted independent directors after the joint-venture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-341270","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\/341270","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=341270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}