It's time to take the fight back to HBG
- Thread starter balmain boy
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liltiger
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While HBG and any other stakeholders we currently have, have any involvement we will never get anywhere. None of our former or current owners were ever really willing to walk away from the past and embrace the future. Both Wests and Balmain are failed Rugby League clubs. They had their chance. Neither Wests or Balmain have the right through arrogance or ego to ruin ours. Its time we killed the past and embraced the future. No more Wests and no more Balmain. Get rid of the magpie, the old Balmain logo, the Wests and Balmain teams in our feeder system and rebrand them Wests Tigers. No more garbage retro jerseys black and gold or white and black, we have a retro jersey of our own. Either the 2000 inaugural jersey or the 2005 premiership strip. No more Elias, Roach or Epifana. We have our own legends like Ben Galea, Farah, Marshall, Hodgo. We need to once and for all rip the band aid off and imo kill off any connection to the past. We have our own 25 year past to lean on now. Or factianalism and self interest will leave us stagnating for generations from groups who are too stupid to realise the teams they idolise wete abject failures, hence the need to merge.
liltiger
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We know, cause just like the Magpies and Balmain were we are perennial losers.
happy_tiger
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Can I ask a simple question
How many fans wear Balmain jerseys at Leichhardt Oval
How many fans wear Wests jerseys at
Campbelltown
I'm anti HBG .....but I wonder if much of the hatred for Campbelltown comes from. Balmain fans originally.....then WTs fans
How many fans wear Balmain jerseys at Leichhardt Oval
How many fans wear Wests jerseys at
Campbelltown
I'm anti HBG .....but I wonder if much of the hatred for Campbelltown comes from. Balmain fans originally.....then WTs fans
rihannafan1
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Not this guy. I just really dislike the meddling of HBG and the incompetence they support
cochise
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For me, this is about the return of a major independent board and the review recommendations.
Theres two in the front row tonite in Balmain jumpers on 100% footy...look.to be in their 30s.
Plenty.like them at games too
This clinging to the past isnt going away anytime soon
Plenty.like them at games too
This clinging to the past isnt going away anytime soon
I don't think it's a hatred for Campbelltown there is just not the same connection to it given that the club is an inner west club. You will see a whole lot different jumpers there on any given day retro and current.
Going to Campbelltown and dealing with Sydney traffic is challenging unless it's a Sunday arvo game and is even less appealing when the team is travelling poorly.
In terms of the tribalism for Sydney teams suburban grounds are located in the vicinity where the fan base has easy access. I have no doubt a renovated Leichhardt would be the preferred choice of home ground for a large portion of the fan base - attendance this year supports that - but because of its spiritual link to Balmain.....you work it out.
Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan
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Is it a retro top? Could just be for fashion. Especially if it's a long sleeve with a collar. I'd love to have one of those.
Go buy one then...get some Staggers jeans and a hyper colour t shirt while your at it
Rock Hopper Steve
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Oh, no, no ,no not the Staggers, cut you in half and make your voice squeak, well maybe if you want to sing like a soprano.
Interesting. I purchased the current WT jumper on my way to the game against the cows in Townsville. The old retro jumpers were available, and looked good, but I made the conscious decision not to buy one. I wasn't there to support Balmain.
supercoach
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You can have an independent board but if they can not access a lot more funding we are going nowhere fast. Funding is our no1 problem, we are run on a shoe string budget compared to most clubs. A strong budget allows you to get the best people in at all levels levels of the football operation especially grass roots.
Although I do agree our current governance system has to be dissolved and replaced with a system that has some accountability and the debenture system is sent back to the Stone Age where it came from
Although I do agree our current governance system has to be dissolved and replaced with a system that has some accountability and the debenture system is sent back to the Stone Age where it came from
Tom Shines
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My only hope is that tne state authorities force them to change the debenture system … I see little chance of them either wanting to or being forced to sell the team ..
I learned a new word this week. I was surprised there was no picture of Darcy Byrne.
You have to give the guy credit though, he's really playing the long PR game to try and get his profile up before having a crack when Albo retires:
[dem-uh-gog, -gawg]/ ˈdɛm əˌgɒg, -ˌgɔg /
Or demagog
You have to give the guy credit though, he's really playing the long PR game to try and get his profile up before having a crack when Albo retires:
demagogue
American[dem-uh-gog, -gawg]/ ˈdɛm əˌgɒg, -ˌgɔg /
Or demagog
noun
- demagogues
- a person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.
