What do you mean exactly ?
Does fully supporting the Wests -Ts mean you must support every aspect of right now - with no dissension. You support the home ground split just as it is circa 2025, you support the Magpies as NSW Cup team, you support every decision our management makes ?
Or do you accept that culture is a fluid beast and is ever evolving? And that players, coaches, and management are all prone to making mistakes.
I would argue that everyone on this forum fully supports the Wests-Ts.
The willing arguments/discussions revolve around the detail.
The elements that go to make the club as it is today, tomorrow and into the future. I don’t know why some people are so threatened by any of this 🤷♂️
You know exactly what it means.
You can't even bring yourself to say the word 'Tigers' in your post here. You're being deliberately provocative, then wondering why people don't happily respond...
Very simply, do you think the majority of people want to keep talking about Balmain and Wests, or, do you think the majority would rather only talk about the now 26 year old club?
You've had people 'on the other side of the aisle' to you, frequently renounce their former ties to Balmain in discussion, yet you won't, clearly, do the same.
'Rules for thee but not for me', aye?
If you don't want to see the Wests Tigers swallow up everything that was Wests Magpies and the Balmain Tigers, then that's your prerogative, but understand that you are in the diminishing minority.
That prevailing attitude of being unwilling to let go of the past in the modern iteration of the club is seen as an anchor by a lot of people and something that actively, and objectively, prevents true unity.
So you can have that opinion of course, but don't go stomping your feet when less and less people agree with you year on year or when terms like 'dinosaur' get thrown around.
It's accurate. Your attitude is an antiquated one. And one that is dying out.
It's a shame, because as a Balmain supporter growing up, I haven't bought a single piece of Balmain merchandise (and there's still plenty around) since 1999, and had grown quite fond of the magpie emblem, history and enjoyed coming together as one.
...But attitudes like yours, particularly in the adversarial nature in which they're delivered, continue to create an 'us and them' dynamic - and is exactly the problem.
If you can't see that then the conversation is moot.