Balmain-Wests feud laid bare in explosive emails [Video]

Balmain directors have described the Wests Tigers majority owner, Holman Barnes Group, as “incompetent”, “Machiavellian” and a “bunch of tin pots” in a series of private emails that threatens to tear apart the joint venture club.

After this masthead revealed on Thursday that at least one Balmain director, Garry Leo, wanted to immediately cease ties with the Western Suburbs side of the merger, this masthead has also obtained a confidential chain of emails between the Balmain directors which highlights the angst towards the HBG.

While Balmain chairman Danny Stapleton told News Corp on Thursday he had spoken to every single Balmain board member and that they had a “wonderful working relationship with Holman Barnes” and were “as solid as a rock”, the email correspondence during the past 48 hours sheds a different light on how other Balmain directors feel.

“It has been long …