{"id":346130,"date":"2025-12-13T21:17:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346130\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T21:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:17:36","slug":"wests-tigers-board-member-dennis-burgess-quits-after-instagram-scandal-holman-barnes-group-club-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346130\/","title":{"rendered":"Wests Tigers board member Dennis Burgess quits after Instagram scandal; Holman Barnes Group, club changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The changes at the Wests Tigers<\/a> have continued, with controversial board member and Holman Barnes Group chairman Dennis Burgess quitting his role.<\/p>\n

Burgess came under fire earlier this week after his Instagram account was cast into the public eye<\/a>, showing he followed more than 200 accounts with sexually explicit material. <\/p>\n

The former musician has explained the situation with his social media page and confirmed he would be stepping away from the NRL club.<\/p>\n

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“No one has forced me out, it’s my decision,” he told News Corp.<\/p>\n

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Dennis Burgess\u00a0Sydney Morning Herald<\/p>\n

“That Instagram page is a relic from my old music life. I haven’t touched it since 2017.<\/p>\n

“To be clear, I wasn’t ever steering it \u2013 someone helping with promotions was driving the account and they likely followed just about everyone to boost the profile.<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t say I was hacked, in the technical sense of the word.<\/p>\n

“But I’ve sure been blindsided by it because I was not in control of it. At the end of the day, people have jumped on it and weaponised it for their own reasons.”<\/p>\n

Burgess was the driving force behind the Holman Barnes Group portion of the board, which will still hold four members after his departure.<\/p>\n

Balmain hold one spot, while there are three independents including Barry O’Farrell who were all reinstated on Thursday less than a fortnight after being sacked.<\/p>\n

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Benji Marshall poses with Barry O’Farrell\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, chief executive Shane Richardson walked away from the Tigers<\/a> just 18 months into a four-year contract following the board shake-up.<\/p>\n

The decision from Burgess and Richardson to resign comes as head coach Benji Marshall locks in a new deal<\/a>, keeping him at Concord until the end of 2030.<\/p>\n

The club’s fans will hold a rally starting at Pratten Park on Saturday morning as calls for widespread change at the joint venture continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The changes at the Wests Tigers have continued, with controversial board member and Holman Barnes Group chairman Dennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-346130","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\/346130","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=346130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}