HBG can not change the emblem. The licence is Wests Tigers and the NRL aren't going to allow that to change. Thats not my gripe - i can't stand the hypocrites on here who continually keep pushing its not a balmain vs wests thing and then in the next breath say they will walk away if there is no Balmain identity left. They are the same ones who continually abuse anyone who has the temerity to say anything good about the magpies. And yes i'm an old magpies supporter but i know they are never going to be back in the NRL. I'm also appalled at what HBG has done but level headed enough to at least wait and see how this all plays out before i rush off to buy a razor to slash my wrists. Most of my recent comments have been tongue in cheek because i am really having quite a laugh at a lot of the totally unhinged, manic and OTT rants on here.
Because you wouldn’t be supporting the wests tigers anymore .. you’d be supporting the wests magpies . The “ tigers” is the inference that it’s a new club . It has its foundation in Balmain sure , but Balmain is gone , and now the clubs r support is wests tigers . I don’t want to go for wests magpies . I didn’t as a kid from the south west , I don’t now .
But here’s the thing all you magpies supporters won’t acknowledge, let’s be serious you’re the ones with the agenda , wests Ashfield is not west C-town . They’re litterally upset right now because the tigers have said they want to play the majority of thier games at C -town moving forward. ( I have my reservations about the ground re. Atmosphere and attendance , but not the general idea). As well as the orange in the jersey . Those are the “commercial decisions” they weren’t consulted about.
The problem is Everytime you hear tigers - you hear Balmain . Everytime the rest of us hear tigers we hear Wests. Which is ironic because Wests are the ones imploding the club, because just like you, they assume outdated loyalties from 25 years ago.
I want to go for the tigers . Preference is wests tigers . If they go away , then I hope easts tigers come in. Hopefully with some alignment to Balmain because that would be a nice nod to tradition . But I think I’d still support them even if that didn’t happen.
I don’t want to go for a bird. And I especially don’t want to go for a club like wests magpies , who’s associated in the nrl community with ineptitude, and barely keeping afloat.
To imply any different is to deny history. There was a reason the clubs merged . And I’ve been a big advocate of Wests. And even watched my own bias’ from Balmain shift to wests Campbelltown as I see the future there more and more . But there is no future for wests tigers in the inner west of Ashfield . That is certain!
