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The football cards, old photographs and pub paintings of the time never duplicated the Balmain gold colour accurately. The old cotton jerseys started gold, but faded a bit from washing over the season. Old survivors now are usually faded to the mustard yellow colour. The gold on this chart is...

It's area historically goes as far as Rydalmere station, there was an Ermington-Rydalmere JRL. As far as the name of the new club goes, it is not surprising it is being referred to as Balmain Leagues in it's initial stages, as all legal action, agreements and negotiations for so many years...

They're one of 4 submissions. They've always worn the Balmain strip and their new proposed colours are black, gold and blue. https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-brisbane-firehawks-kit-jersey-photos-new-team-franchise-bid/news-story/d4f90fc50a7ddcffcb90e2f426885fb0

Yep, use it or lose it. We should make use of it, because if not you can bet if Easts Brisbane enter the NRL as the Firehawks, they will make gold their primary colour.

Spot on Ink.

Who are we? We are the joint venture club voted into existence by meetings of the members of Balmain & Wests football clubs to represent those clubs in the NRL. No more, No less. There was no motion put forward at those meetings for a Grandfather clause, where after a certain period (eg. 20...

It was only in the 70's that supporter jerseys began to become available, so nearly any earlier jersey you come across would be an ex player jersey, so these are pretty scarce. One of the rarest Balmain shirts would be the 1962 that was only worn that year. It was a grid iron style that I think...

@supercoach No mate, no relation to the great man.

It was Bob's play in the Final against Manly the previous week that put the Tigers into the 69 Grand Final. With a few minutes to play, Balmain were attacking close to Manly's line. On the final tackle Bob pushed Davy Bolton out of the way at dummy-half, took the ball and sent a thirty yard...

@Snake Nooooooooo......no political connections, local or State. It was politicians that urged Balmain Leagues to take out loans to buy up properties around the club. Other politicians kept the development in limbo for years. More politicians decided a metro station would be built, so the club...

How crazy is Latrell these days? Every time he gets tackled or burnt in defence he uses the elbows, knees or anything else he can think of. It's cool in Origin but a bit overs in every game he plays.

Sometimes you just don't need an expert opinion, original documents, sworn statements etc. The old adage; if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck suffices. So who told you about the frogs? :astonished:

Sounds like a Todd Greenberg media release.

I had the tape but it self destructed 5 seconds after I listened to it. :frowning:

Oh, it appears the NRL want them to be successful. It is just a lot of people believe they don't want them to be sucessful in Sydney. A skeptical Peter Peters this morning aired the same outlandish opinion. That being, the hard man tactics on Cronulla and the Tigers are linked to relocation, and...