If Balmain or Wests had died would you still be a league sup

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happy_tiger

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A question I just put to Bug ,but thought I would put it to everyone . If Wests or Balmain had tried to go it by themselves and died without merging do you think you would still follow rugby league or support another team or follow another sport\code .
 
I wouldn't support another team. If Wests were only in the NSW Cup then I would support them in that.
 
I'd still watch the game and would want certain teams to lose and certain teams to win. Whether I would support another team, I probably could but then again, I wouldnt be surprised if I didn't.
 
Interesting question but I would still follow rugby league with great interest. If the team folded I probably would have got more involved myself and spent less time supporting a major team, probably would have got more into coaching I think or junior reps.
 
After following Wests Magpies for about 50 years and playing football in their juniors, if they had "folded" I would have lost much of the interest I had in rugby league. I would have become a casual follower of the game.
 
If Balmain had folded altogether I'd have remained a fan of the game in general, and probably would have loosely "followed" Penriff I guess. That said, I wouldn't be able to bring myself to buy/wear another teams jersey or paraphernalia.
 
I probable would never follow a club as I do now ..but would still watch the game and would take an interest in a few sides with there playing style.But definatly would not be involved as I always have.
 
Being involved in Rugby League for a major part of my life, I'd still watch and support the game… My allegiance is to the Tiger Brand and if another team joined the competition and took up the fight of the 'Tiger', I'd support and follow them. While I only ever watched 2 AFL games in my life, I still ask how the Richmond Tigers are going if I'm having a beer with some boys who follow AFL?!

At the end of the day, if your a RL lover, you'd find a new team to follow... This game is just too addictive!!!
 
@Tiger Watto said:
Being involved in Rugby League for a major part of my life, I'd still watch and support the game… My allegiance is to the Tiger Brand and if another team joined the competition and took up the fight of the 'Tiger', I'd support and follow them. While I only ever watched 2 AFL games in my life, I still ask how the Richmond Tigers are going if I'm having a beer with some boys who follow AFL?!

At the end of the day, if your a RL lover, you'd find a new team to follow... This game is just too addictive!!!
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Haha, that is the express reason why I follow Richmond in the AFL and Castleford in the ESL.
 
In my life it has cost me a great deal to be the only Tiger in a massive family of dragons and later a friendship circle that is mainly bulldogs.

since the age of 6 when I broke my dads heart I have loved one thing constantly. The Tiger.

I don't care about the geographic s ie Balmain, Campbeltown, if the franchise had changed to anything else I would have been lost to the game and probably and lost with out the game.

I bleed Black Golds and White.
 
I fully thank the Balmain Tigers for saving us from extinction.
No i would not be following rugby league if Balmain had not of rescued us.
We forget in 99 they were trying to merge Wests with the Dogs.'Ill put a question to old Maggies,would you have still followed a Western Bulldogs team if that had of happened.
 
Hard to say what I'd do.

When the JV was proposed I thought to myself "Thats it" im done with it.

Lost interest for the first two years but still read about, listened and watched WTs on TV….my interest grew in time

That taught me a lesson, until it actually happens you dont know what you might do
 
I tried to go for the dogs when lamby left.cos
The maggies nearly dead.But couldn't.It would b hard to love another team like I love WEsts.
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To me both are already dead at the elite level. The only purpose they serve is to maintain excess players and bring on elite juniors.

Rugby League mean't nothing to me when fulltime blew on Wests in the last round in 1999.

It took two years and some constant whining from a knucklehead to entice me back to the game. Thank god he did! The ride hasn't always been a smooth one, but it is one that I am glad I took.

Wests Tigers are the future. Get on!

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Hi everyone

If Balmain had died and not merged, my support of league would have died with it!! I couldn't follow another team that wasn't the Tigers!!

Tigergran
 
To me, the game is more important than the team, and likewise, the team is more important than the individual.

I would have been gutted if my team didn't exist any more, but I would still have an interest in the game. Over time, I would imagine that that interest would eventually translate into me following another team. If the Central Coast Bears came in, it may have been the team I had chosen.

Of course, this is all hypothetical, and I hope it remains that way!!
 
I'd end up following another side. I grew up in Parra so I probably would have ended up following the Eels, had Balmain died just as the Titans came in, I'd probably follow them…....although supporting a QLD side seems icky to me :wink:
 
Ironically if the tigers had died i would probably have followed the magpies in some way. They were always my second team, i grew up in Lidcombe.

I never had a problem with the merger.
 
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