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Mate I’m pushing 50 and I can see it!

The problem at the moment is the immediate future of the WT is intrinsically linked to the HBG.

Most people would know I’m an old Balmain fan, the photo I use is a giveaway although that’s more my admiration of a player. I’m not interested in Balmain returning. Sure I think about it from time to time but it’s not at all practical. I’m old enough to remember what a struggle the 90s were and...

I carry some guilt that I basically signed my son up for all this. I’ve offered him an out but he’s very loyal. Frankly the club doesn’t deserve him.

Pissed off. Really, really angry about this. We somehow land probably the best administrator in the game, things are moving the right direction for once and these morons piss it up against the wall because of what? The jumper is the wrong colour? They’re being made irrelevant? They’ve shown zero...

Absolutely. I’m open to any suggestions/models that get us away from what we currently have.

Oh for sure. Put together a consortium, fund the purchase. Hell they could even float part of it to fans to defray some of the cost!

I can hear the “HBG out!” chant already.

Makes you wonder what conversations and assurances his (apparent) decision is based on.

Sort of, not quite. Benny came along later. The initial plan to redevelop the club was based on council advice to buy up property surrounding the original club. They secured funding from a subsidiary of Lehmann Brothers right before the GFC. After this fell apart Benny’s mob came along to “assist.”

Dean Collis kicked goals at your wedding? Man all we had was a DJ!

I wouldn’t sign up to play if HBG were completely running things.

There’s no justification for how the HBG crowd have carried on. Again, I understand how some former WS fans may feel alienated but Wests are half the name and get just as many home games as LO. What you describe might as well be 0%. As I said I’d be as interested as I would be to watch the...

See I don’t see it that way. I don’t want to go to Leichhardt or Campbelltown to watch the Magpies anymore than I would to see the Dolphins. It’s not just “old Balmain types”, although I think you underestimate how many WT fans/members fit that category, who would be resistant. I don’t care if...

Macarthur Tigers bench player leaves club… If he was Tom Smith you’d struggle to get this story even on zero tackle.

I’m sorry but if you think Sydney Tigers or even the JV are equivalent things to changing to bring the Wests Magpies, you are way off the mark. As it was the JV saw a lot of Balmain fans walk away but most, like myself, saw it as a new entity with a strong Balmain element. The Magpies are not...

Absolutely. And probably Balmain juniors goes to Souths or Easts if the pathway vanishes l

Not sure you can equate the very brief Sydney Tigers period with changing the Wests Tigers to the Wests Magpies. The former was frustrating for me personally but I never thought of it as not my club. Changing to Wests Magpies is totally different. That’s not a new identity or a rebranding...

With Dean Collis kicking goals? Top night!

And f that’s true they can collectively get stuffed. The sooner these pelicans stop treating the club like a toy train set, the better off we’ll all be.