Balmain steamrolled by NRL

[Alf_Duguid]

This Balmain chairman is embarrassing himself. We are Wests Tigers now, so let's get on with it.

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[tottie]

Wests fans have all forgotten how they were dead in the 80's and saved by singo and dead in 99 and joined a dying Balmain who helped them in the early JV yrs. when Balmain agreed to the deal with the NRL the repayment timeframe was not confirmed as 2 yrs and that is why they agreed - fact.

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[tottie]

Maybe wests would also like to have brooks, moses, woods, farah leave as well becauae balmain offer nothing to the WT!!!!

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[tottie]


Short memory.

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[innsaneink]

Wests fans have all forgotten how they were dead in the 80's and saved by singo and dead in 99 and joined a dying Balmain who helped them in the early JV yrs. when Balmain agreed to the deal with the NRL the repayment timeframe was not confirmed as 2 yrs and that is why they agreed - fact.

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Rubbish rubbish rubbish

 

[Snake]

Unfortunately those of us that did not know who was causing all the problems the statement above confirms a lot.
I really do not know what Balmain want from there partners , Wests are financially backing there Balmain junior league …Wests offered to pay there share for an extra vote until they could pay them back which would of protected them from the NRL conditions.
The reason Balmain are in this mess is the management that is now complaining ,I feel for the Balmain supporters as the people that ran the club have totally destroyed it and now want to start blaming everybody else for such a raw deal.
The one positive for all of us supporters in moving forward into the future we do have a team and club to support the Weststigers and the people that do not please move on enough is enough. .

 

[innsaneink]

There'll be the select few that point the finger at Wests for balmains woes….cant help themselves, truth hurts I guess....no responsiblilty, its always someone elses fault.

look in your own backyard!

 

[wtfl1981]

I'm sure Benny Elias loves Balmain and will do everything in his power to see that it gets back on the Board. I'm sure he has deep pockets. Will we see a backdoor benefactor?

Not when Balmain have to pay him $11k per month in administration fees for buying out Rozelle and the $23m debt.

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[Snake]

I forgot to add the main emblem on our Jersey is a Tiger when the chant goes up it is TIGERS …not Magpies ..So one side is supplying all the money and where for all but game day get absolutely no recognition, I wonder who should be really complaining and not! Balmain should really think themselves lucky they are REALLY getting a fair go with it all.

 

[Tigercrb]

This constant fighting between wests and balmain is the biggest problem for our club. The boards in fighting and drama flows right through the club, right down to what happens on the field. Wests. Tigers have been around for 15 years now. It's time the board and the fans realised that without the merger, BOTH teams would be extinct now. We need an independent board with1 member from balmain and wests with equal rights. I know this will upset everyone buy we should also move to anz or Allianz full time. One game a year at leichardt and Campbeltown to acknowledge our roots but a neutral ground so the club can move forward together. Tigers vs souths/ Canterbury at liechardt once a year and versus manly/dragons at cambo. Heritage jersey at both games and neutral the rest of the year
Thoughts?

 

[NT_Tiger]

I'm sure Benny Elias loves Balmain and will do everything in his power to see that it gets back on the Board. I'm sure he has deep pockets. Will we see a backdoor benefactor?

Not when Balmain have to pay him $11k per month in administration fees for buying out Rozelle and the $23m debt.

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Been there, done that? I didn't understand how he sat with that. Was that investment gone wrong or an attempted bailout?

 

[diedpretty]

As much as I sympathise with Balmain's situation, I don't see what they are complaining about. None of this information is new. Balmain knew what the stipulations were when they agreed to accept a bail out from the NRL. This forum has been banging on about it for months. Did they think the NRL was joking when they said there would be no voting rights for Balmain? Did they think it was just a handout and not a repayable loan?
The whole Wests/Balmain saga reminds me of George Castanza. If they both spent as much time looking at ways of improving the joint as they do whingeing about their current situation WT would be the powerhouse of the NRL.

 

[wtfl1981]

I'm sure Benny Elias loves Balmain and will do everything in his power to see that it gets back on the Board. I'm sure he has deep pockets. Will we see a backdoor benefactor?

Not when Balmain have to pay him $11k per month in administration fees for buying out Rozelle and the $23m debt.

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Been there, done that? I didn't understand how he sat with that. Was that investment gone wrong or an attempted bailout?

Refer to related article on this sub-forum

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[diedpretty]

Lets say Balmain pays back the NRL loan and they are allowed to have voting rights again on the WT board. What happens then?The infighting starts again? Will we go backwards once again? :frowning: Hope not.

No because the NRL will still have 3 votes - whoever they side with on any given vote will win. Or Balmain and Wests actually side together on a vote and they win. Its just like any other board - there will be factions and agendas.

 

[Staks]

And the fossil cycle continues on here … A landmark day for the Wests Tigers and all that is talked about the rights of two clubs that died in 1999 !!

Let me set some of you meatheads straight ... Wests Magpies football club is no longer involved in the Wests Tigers at board level. They are happy running around in a third rate Mickey Mouse competition!

Wests Ashfield is not "the magpies" is not "the wests fossils" ... does not "want a return of the Magpies" !! Some of you seem to see them as the enemy... I guess funding part of the Balmain junior league and consistent advertising at the Old girl isn't enough for you...

In fact ... Ashfield have made it no secret they want to own the Wests Tigers franchise and eventually re-brand it's club ... Asians...gambling...lucky tiger logo... $$$$$$$$. !!!

I'd love to see Harry T or some other smart business mind buy the debt off and add two more elite business people to the board... then..MAYBE...some of you hacks can move on...or out !!

You all need to ask yourselves ... WHO DO YOU SUPPORT ??? 100% Wests Tigers ... no matter what .... Or a club that you see as a continuation of a club that died in 1999... if the answer is the latter then I'm sorry you need to move on !!

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[TigerOfBankstown]

Can't help feel that the magpie supporters are loving Balmains predicament, I grew up supporting Balmain and then Wests tigers.. If they take the Balmain out of wests tigers that's it for me, together with the joke that is WT in the last 3 seasons and League becoming ever so boring with the slowness, rule changes and refereeing blunders, I just have had enough. Gradually I'm gaining more interest in the aleague and afl regardless. As for the magpies supporters, u are just as blind as Balmain, NRL is playing divide and conquer, get rid of Balmain first, then when the magpies win 5 spoons straight with an average attendance of 2000 at homebush, the nrl will put there hands up and say we tried and then ship you off to where ever. Remember history maggies, it didn't work in 91 years why would work going forward? wests tigers with out Balmain is just another name for western suburbs magpies, 91 years of failure, at least together we haven't won a spoon in 15 years, that's a record for the magpie side. If Balmain goes down I'd rather our juniors merge with souths, oh sorry the new look WT would want our juniors.

 

[tigerbalm]

Balmain's only hope it seems is a private buyer. Even if they raise the funds to pay back the NRL, they still need to contribute to the WT thereafter, and a fighting fund won't allow for that.

The magpie dinosaurs gloating about this fiasco should realise that their two board members are effectively as powerless as the Balmain board members.

Three NRL votes always beats two magpies votes.

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Nah…wests vote count, you know, cause they actually have voting power...unlike balmain
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What makes you think wests want something different to the NRL? They obviously have some business smarts unlike balmain who vested their future in a old hooker. I'm happy with the representation on the board now.

I'd imagine this fighting fund (which will raise 78 bucks) will be given to Gary jack to invest in magic beans.

Ideally I'd prefer balmain to go silently into the night so we can focus on the more important things like wests and the future of wests. The less beat up articles on how the club is ripping apart the better

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Keep talking sh*t champ, it's what you do best.

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I don't know about that, I'm told I'm really good at gardening but to be fair I do talk shit to the grass while I cut it so maybe you're right.

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[diedpretty]

Quick lock the doors of the asylum - all the inmates are escaping.

 

[Tony33]

I seriously think this is awesome, so long that wests continue to play out of leichardt as well as campbelltown with the tiger logo. This would mean the wests tigers could move forward as a club with no infighting, conflict of interests pulling us back and a cashed up owner. If wests ashfield did infact rebrand their name to wests tigers that would be unreal as it would only add to the development of our club's identity and would infact give us a home. The next step, would be playing out of ANZ for the majority of our home games and then we will truely see the emergence of the wests tigers as their own club run not by balmain or wests but by the wests tigers. This would surely remove the fossils out of the joint and former wests supporters would no longer be able to complain about lack of recognition, whilst balmain fossils would be forced to accept the wests tigers or move somewhere else. Ahhh i can see the light…

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