SMH Article 'We’ve lost faith in them’: Balmain consider shock exit from Wests Tigers merger
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RonDingo
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Here we go again
I just hope they don't make a sticker... I put the stupid "on the bus" sticker on my car and week later, it was flattened by a falling tree/branch in a windstorm 😜
twentyforty
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I’ve always thought the ARL own the trademark “Wests Tigers”?
Halbrowne61
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Because the NRL owns the marketing of the game, and therefore the teams/names/logos etc.
Imo Balmain negotiating from a position of weakness and sounds like the dream of a select few to see the Balmain Tigers live again.
And I come from a Balmain Tigers background. For Gods sake let’s just move on !
Halbrowne61
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Maybe “ Back to Balmain “ Dont think this will go anywhere SQ. Let’s hope not 🙏
No one cares about Wests or Balmain anymore
Its all about the future and we finally have hope.
Put this this self serving crap away
Its all about the future and we finally have hope.
Put this this self serving crap away
hank37w
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Gee Souffs must have been an even bigger basket case than I thought if Richo reckons Wests Tigers aren't the biggest train wreck he has been charged with putting back together. 🤣
Come on Richo be honest with us.
Harvey
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They should have a members meeting at Balmain leagues club to take a vote
I hope the only place it goes it out of the media.
I was, stupidly, starting to think maybe, just maybe, our team will start having a more positive media presence and representation, especially when we beat Parra next week. We have a bunch of kids in first grade, at the very least holding onto the level of skill needed to become a successful first grade team.
How many of our players were born after the JV started?
The boards need to wake up to themselves! Put the recommendations in place, stop this divisive rubbish, remember WM and BT, for sure, but it really is time for Wests Tigers to be the only focus. And I'm even including heritage rounds - play in the 2000 and 2005 GF jerseys (one is mostly black, the other mostly orange). No need for Balmain and Wests jerseys in the NRL now.
It would be so refreshing to be talking about our chances of winning next week, instead of this rubbish 🗑 😑
hank37w
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More like a Crocodile Wreck thrown under the Bus.
I’m a Balmain tigers tragic and you’re delusional dude
Balmain has no juniors, no capital, no club house, nothing!
Everyone on that train should pss off seriously.
We should be grateful we have wests nursery now.
The game has changed - if Balmain ever came back we would be like Newtown jets playing in Reggie’s and probably the lowest team in that comp.
It’s over mate.
All we need is the old tragic Balmain and magpie people to flog off somewhere else, put on their old jerseys, and play with each other if they’re so desperate
Pascoes_barber
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Most of them you'd think. Of any that were alive pre-merger I'd be surprised if any of them had even a single memory of Western Suburbs Magpies or Balmain Tigers in the ARL/early NRL.
Pascoes_barber
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Oh, yes.
They will be a powerhouse with their incredible financial clout.
The state of the art leagues club and training facilities will have fans and players alike queueing up to be a part of this certain success.
Jedi_Tiger
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start by getting Wests Tigers in ALL grades
hank37w
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Benny will chuck in a dollar, he knows a bargain when he sees one.
HowDugWT
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Balmain want to leave but with what. They have Leichardt and thats about it. You would think they need to stay to even stay alive
hank37w
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The only thing they could do at Balmain Leagues Club these days is take a dump.
Gutter journalism, sensationalism, beat-up, a sole comment generates Headlines. Good luck trying to entice new players to the club in this environment
So i have quotes back from the daily telegraph for a full page $ 33K and half page ad $16K - but they do 40% to 80% discounts depending the on the day etc.
I want to start a go fund me page which asks for money to take out a full page ad in the Tele that has an open letter to HBG, Balmain Tigers and Wests Tigers boards as well as past administration, directors and anyone else trying to hijack and sabotage the Wests Tigers that is cherished by us the fans.
The ad would state that we want to keep the WT
That we want Richo and Barry to be able to implement all the recommendations of the report including adding 4 independent directors and not the same HBG directors that were there last time.
And that we want all the infighting to stop.
And that any money that we raise more than the costs of the advertising will be used to put into a kitty to use as a third party or sponsor deal to extend and keep Lachlan Galvin at the club for ten years because we believe he is the face of the new WT generation from the southwest.
And that if there are any Balmain Tigers or Wests Magpies old folk who want to keep the torch alight they are welcome to put on their jerseys and play against each other at Lidcombe Oval whenever they want but leave us all ALONE.
I think this will get more media attention than the cost of the ad itself.
I want to start a go fund me page which asks for money to take out a full page ad in the Tele that has an open letter to HBG, Balmain Tigers and Wests Tigers boards as well as past administration, directors and anyone else trying to hijack and sabotage the Wests Tigers that is cherished by us the fans.
The ad would state that we want to keep the WT
That we want Richo and Barry to be able to implement all the recommendations of the report including adding 4 independent directors and not the same HBG directors that were there last time.
And that we want all the infighting to stop.
And that any money that we raise more than the costs of the advertising will be used to put into a kitty to use as a third party or sponsor deal to extend and keep Lachlan Galvin at the club for ten years because we believe he is the face of the new WT generation from the southwest.
And that if there are any Balmain Tigers or Wests Magpies old folk who want to keep the torch alight they are welcome to put on their jerseys and play against each other at Lidcombe Oval whenever they want but leave us all ALONE.
I think this will get more media attention than the cost of the ad itself.
