No matter the ground split the club still has too many divisions, the jersey is one of them. People who can't take a fully black one as it is too Wests, or a fully black one is too Balmain. An even split of colours removes that, so does a design that is not too close to a Wests or Balmain strip. The design I have was inspired by a completely different club from a different sport, then tweaked to its be its own design. And looking at it it very much has elements of the original trial jersey the club wore (the black top, white middle, and orange bottom) which was not based on anything but being its own design, and then the one that we had which had the thin orange and white stripes, which I then did a full body concept a few years ago. Again not based on any single club, but something that was unique to the club now.
If we are to get over the divide and move forward as a single club, we need to remove the whole black vs orange, or wests vs balmain ideas, and go with something that is just what it is a Wests Tigers jersey. That is what I have tried to design here, two designs that are not anything but that, something that cannot be called too much of one, or too much of the other, and can be worn as much as possible, with the alternate only there for clashes or when a light colour would be beneficial for the heat.
We can then do specialty or one offs on top of that as we do now.
