Vlandys Kills Off Wests

Balmain Magpies: the winning re-brand.

The other supporters call us Tigpies all the time, maybe we need to become Westmain Tigpies.
No way.
The Balmain club today is not an option to have as a Success business model for our joint venture name however Western Suburbs (Wests) is.
The tiger imo is a more marketable logo so the the current set up if perfect.
If these so called leaders of our game can't remember who we are then it's a blight on there thought processes.
 
I’m an old Tiger, maybe we should play as the Maggie’s for a while, Tigers couldn’t win a rigged chook raffle
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My take is that is exactly what @Bus 2 Terrigal is stating.

He is right in this instance as well.
Is He though ? Like really ? His motivation is about wests magpies not the wests tigers . He’s clearly looking for validation in this aspect of it .
I highly doubt he’s posting about this if uncle Pete called us the magpies .
And I wouldn’t honestly care either way .
Because it’s more an issue with uncle Pete than some anti magpies conspiracy theory .
The horse bolted 20 years ago . By the way , it’s e same for Balmain . I sort of cringe when I read that as well. Like when an old bloke says he goes for Balmain . It’s like “what year is it “ .
So batboy, do you laugh at or feel sorry for Cochise when in the past he has expressed so much love for Our Club that he would be prepared to........ 'die for our club'???????
sorry mate . I didn’t mean to hurt yours or anyones feelings . I realise how harsh that may have read.
 
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Twenty two years on from the joint venture and we have the Chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission calling our club, Balmain.

On Foxtel this morning -
“I thank Manly greatly for diverting the headline from the Balmain situation” - Peter V’landys.

As if it’s not enough to hear blanket “Tigers” references with rarely a solitary “Wests” thrown in to lighten the load - now we have the highest ranking league official in the land kicking my football heritage into the gutter.

It’s been 22 years for f**ks sake
Peter Beatty was berated from pillar to post for not knowing who the Sharks were.
PVL said that he followed Ruba League all his life, he must be young than I thought.
 
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Is He though ? Like really ? His motivation is about wests magpies not the wests tigers . He’s clearly looking for validation in this aspect of it .
I highly doubt he’s posting about this if uncle Pete called us the magpies .
And I wouldn’t honestly care either way .
Because it’s more an issue with uncle Pete than some anti magpies conspiracy theory .
The horse bolted 20 years ago . By the way , it’s e same for Balmain . I sort of cringe when I read that as well. Like when an old bloke says he goes for Balmain . It’s like “what year is it “ .

sorry mate . I didn’t mean to hurt yours or anyones feelings . I realise how harsh that may have read.
All good at my end Strongee 👍 and no apology was needed 🙂.
Enjoy the rest of the day and hope we beat the Broncs on the weekend.
All respect Mate.
 
Well, much of this posting from those of us from the Magpies side of the Wests Tigers relates to many of the especially recent crap posts and threads popping up mainly to gain undeserved leverage for the Balmain side in management of the club and also the attempts over tbe years by many on here and in the media to attempt to cancel the Magpies side out of the JV.

We can and will bite back if necessary.

Trust me, the Balmain side should respect our magnanimity....you are getting a good deal...we don't want to cancel the Balmain side from the JV and wish for and equal identity. We wish for a shared future. I respect Balmains history even though they are not my club, and the investment fans have and even though I miss the Magpies of Lidcombe oval, having been through seeing my club booted out and robbed in the 80s would not wish it on our Balmain partners with whom we have a premiership. Rick Wayde said as much in the meeting where we voted to absorb the Balmain side financially following events which the Wests side had no love or control over.

But the snide roundabout postings recently show some are having a go.

Everyone knows who they are. Its amusing at first and then tiresome but no doubt it is intended for a purpose.

I repeat again any attempt to cancel the Magpies out will be met with appropriate pushback at whatever level is required.

So don't bother you will get nothing.

Don't underestimate our passive and generous stance with weakness at any level.

We relinquish nothing.
West carried the Balmain side like the Balmain side carried the west side for the first 7 or so years both would have been gone by now first West first then Balmain but without Balmain west would have played it's last game in 1999 Balmain would have finished 14 in the cut off and life would have went on

It's honestly a match made in heaven
 
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It’s pretty one sided for the most part . Crusty 50-70 year olds still wanting the Maggie’s around , not remembering how diabolical and in the toilet that club was for the whole last 10 years plus of its existence financially . That’s not even taking into account the on field stuff .
It's a moot point now but the Magpies were semi finalists on 3 separate occasions in the 90s with a club championship and 3rd grade premiership.

Only went downhill when higher authorities decided they had no future in 97.
 
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West carry the Balmain side like the Balmain side carried the west side for the first 7 or so years both would have been gone by now first West first then Balmain but without Balmain west would have played it's last game in 1999 Balmain would have finished 14 in the cut off and life would have went on

It's honestly a match made in heaven
I was a Balmain fan and West was my second team I went to the first game played at Campbelltown and saw more West games as a kid then Balmain I used to love watching all 3 grades at Campbelltown my dad hated driving to the 8 wonder of the world and Campbellton was a easy drive for him just get on the highway

I would have liked West United as the teams name but West Tiger's great as well

I had trouble watching the first year sad that both teams are gone and they are both gone from first grade RIP

It's sad but understandable that people on here go on about West should do this or Balmain should do that maybe they should start a Western suburbs forum Or Balmain forum and watch the lower grades and talk about it
 
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Not really ! No one cares dude … Sorry . It’s like the dude who pulls me up in the street to talk about transistor radios . I don’t really care and I’m sorry you never left the 90s mentally . But I still don’t care.
Well you clearly don’t care ... but don’t be so self righteous as to think you are everyone.

PS. According to batboy I never made it to the 90s, I’m still stuck in the 70s 😬
 
It’s pretty one sided for the most part . Crusty 50-70 year olds still wanting the Maggie’s around , not remembering how diabolical and in the toilet that club was for the whole last 10 years plus of its existence financially . That’s not even taking into account the on field stuff .
The right outcome has happened . We are Wests Tigers !
This guy every 2 months has some shit like this. He needs to focus on CC cup for his mental health .
I’d like to think I’m more frequent with “shit like this” than every two months.

You’re doing me a disservice there.

I‘d also suggest you reread your 90s history.
 
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Is He though ? Like really ? His motivation is about wests magpies not the wests tigers . He’s clearly looking for validation in this aspect of it .
I highly doubt he’s posting about this if uncle Pete called us the magpies .
And I wouldn’t honestly care either way .
Because it’s more an issue with uncle Pete than some anti magpies conspiracy theory .
The horse bolted 20 years ago . By the way , it’s e same for Balmain . I sort of cringe when I read that as well. Like when an old bloke says he goes for Balmain . It’s like “what year is it “ .

sorry mate . I didn’t mean to hurt yours or anyones feelings . I realise how harsh that may have read.
Go back and read my initial post on this thread.
Its wholly about V’landys and his stuff-up/ lack of sensitivity whatever you want to call it.

I will always stick up for the lack of Wests references in describing “our” club. But how is that me wanting to reinstate the Magpies etc ... I’m sure the almost blanket use of the descriptor “tigers” is what triggered V’landys ageing brain to spit out ‘Balmain’.

Im staggered that a point like this can’t be made without so many turning it into a Balmain/Wests thing. Kind of shows how insecure this fan base remains.

Go back and read my initial post and my second post on this thread 🤔
 
Who gives a toss what those corrupt fools call us, we all have black, white and orange blood in our veins, when we bleed we all bleed togeather, after Sunday were all bleeding as one and you are worrying about being referenced by the nrl or public by one side of the merger or the other. This week should be enough proof that it's us against them. That's the nrl and public. Were on our own, all we got is each other, given the opportunity they'd shut our team down. Let what's happened on Sunday galvanise our squad and supporters as one family of brothers and sisters, who all bleed black, white and orange. Eventually the team will start to win again. Then the world will hear their roar and when the world does we all of us will be right behind roaring with them.
 
I’m not sure why we get so crossed up about this. Sticks and stones.
it wasn’t meant to be derogatory it’s not a black listed word. It’s a part of our heritage but not who we are today. We are wests tigers.
they call as what they like as long as they get the on field calls right.
 
By the way , it’s e same for Balmain . I sort of cringe when I read that as well. Like when an old bloke says he goes for Balmain . It’s like “what year is it “ .

My take is this is what he reacts too. I get this. I don't like it either. The problem is he is a bit sensitive about it hence I state he has a chip on his shoulder.

I think it's okay though. I sometimes like people that have chips on their shoulder in the right way.
 
He needs to focus on CC cup for his mental health .
If by “CC cup” your refering to the Central Coast comp, I’m all over it Strongee (without any appreciable improvement in my mental health, I might add).

With The Entrance and Wyong playing up in the Newcastle comp, these two powerhouses have been weakened a tad at the local level, allowing a cashed up Erina to lead the field. Keep an eye out however for the Toukley Hawks who have never won the comp up here but are well placed for a genuine dash during the finals. Terrigal will also feature in the big end of season games so when my bus finally arrives at Duffys Road I’ll hit the ‘ding’ and shuffle into the ground to give the Sharkies a cheer.9D7FA916-6698-4C46-A440-228C8867B51F.jpeg
 
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Go back and read my initial post on this thread.
Its wholly about V’landys and his stuff-up/ lack of sensitivity whatever you want to call it.

I will always stick up for the lack of Wests references in describing “our” club. But how is that me wanting to reinstate the Magpies etc ... I’m sure the almost blanket use of the descriptor “tigers” is what triggered V’landys ageing brain to spit out ‘Balmain’.

Im staggered that a point like this can’t be made without so many turning it into a Balmain/Wests thing. Kind of shows how insecure this fan base remains.

Go back and read my initial post and my second post on this thread 🤔
That's it.

We have come into this JV from different paths. I didn't want the Magpies robbed and kicked out in the late 70s and early 80s and then comes Super League and we are forced into a JV.

But the actual JV is a good concept which is not my original investment but allows me to retain some of my old Magpies investment into a new Wests Tigers investment.

Since this is the case I wouldn't like Balmain cancelled out in any way and don't believe it has been done by the management or NRL or the media or by Magpies fans.

But there has been numerous attempts to cancel the Magpies or diminish them in the WT by the media and some Balmain fans on here and others and we won't put up with it.
 
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