gallagher
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How about Inner Wests Tigers and South Wests Tigers? No balmain, no magpies at all.Only my opinion but I think we should keep all development teams from u13s through to U18s as independent Wests Magpies and Balmain Tigers teams. I think we should have Wests Tigers teams in Harold Matts, SG Ball and Jersey Flegg as well as NSW Cup.
With the development teams we keep the two local catchments in Macarthur/Campbelltown and Balmain active and built as the graduating step into any of Wests Tigers top tier teams from Harold Matts through to NRL.
If it was like this there is clear pathway and transparency into the Balmain / Wests past history while keeping it valid through the local development structure. We need all our juniors to aspire to aiming to play for our Wests Tigers, it just seems very fragmented we go from individual teams at Matts and Ball, then at the next stage of Flegg we come together as Wests Tigers but then the next step of NSW Cup it goes to Wests Magpies. It gets confusing for everyone the pathway and it doesn't bring both Wests and Balmain together especially now we are the mighty Wests Tigers.