More that Wests, Ashfield, HBG or whoever it was . . were not "biased against all things Balmain"
They tipped in a lot of cash to pay Balmain's debts, etc. Hardly biased against Balmain.
Interesting thought on people being grateful . . . . I guess that if someone has paid your debts and pays your keep . . . unless you're an obnoxious and arrogant arsehole you'd have be grateful to some extent ?
Like, if my brother took to gambling or whatever, and lost his house, owed $200k on top . . . and his wife left him . . . and I put him up in my granny flat rent free, paid off his $200k, and gave him $500 a week till he got on his feet . . . I wouldn't need him to build a statue of me, but I'd sure as hell be pissed if I heard he was bad mouthing me to his mates.
??? That logic doesn’t make any real sense though in reality . Because there were a bunch of consortiums willing to take on the debt and take over the asset of Balmain tigers, with the future being the leagues club in rozelle . As that’s a gold mine most people wanted . Especially th development above it . Obviously the most trust worthy was wests Ashfield.
To use your family logic as far as I’m aware , imagine your junkie son (Elias , pissed all your funds up the wall , now you’re looking around for help to get you out of the whole he’s created , so you’re thinking bank loans , bankruptcy , external investors in your company etc. But your brother comes along says he will wipe the debt , merge your company into his own ,and give you 10% of the ownership afterwards . It seems like a good deal right?
I mean sure . But now your brother at every turn says he owns the asset , you don’t have a say , even though he said you would , and you should be grateful he bailed you out . But he says it all the time . Every time you have a fight , every Christmas part and birthday at some point he brings up the fact he had to bail you and your junkie son out . Would you not be resentful , and regretful that you made that choice.
And then worst of all . Your once thriving customer base , and legacy has been diminished by his ineptitude at running that business , that this thing you loved and nurtured is now a pale impression of what it once was . Would you not be resentful ? Regretful? I mean you’d curse your junkie son for starters , but he’s your boy so you love him
Unconditionally even though he breaks your heart all the time . But your brother. Would you not start to think he took advantage of me at my lowest . Like I said resentful .
I’m not saying this hypothetical analogy is how it is. And it’s definitely not how I personally feel . (whilst Balmain fairly or unfairly was considered the JV partner with the more prestige , they were busy running thier club in the toilet long before SL and the eventual merger happened) , but I’m just offering a counter argument to the in my opinion , stupid , and low IQ argument , that people should be grateful and STFU , because a favour was done .
For me I don’t do favours by half . I don’t believe in conditional love / favours . I do something for a mate or family , I’m not keeping count . I don’t want to be reimbursed , and if you want to talk shit about me after the fact like I’m a chump , well that’s on you . I’ll just brush you and chalk the whole experience up to learning . But this is business we are talking about . And like I said the favour is implied that it was the only way forward . Which is simply not true there were many pigs trying to eat at the trough . They just chose the familiar pig of Wests Ashfield .
