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Balmain Tigers hate Campbelltown - In the last 3-5 years there's been this power shift and all you hear is "Leichardt is a spiritual home of Rugby League", or "Nothing beats Sunday arvo footy at Leichardt"
There's a bee-d*ck difference between historical crowd figures over the 11 years, and statistically I'm struggling to recall a massive gap in any winning rates between the two.
This notion that they are equals in this merger, is exactly that … an notion.
St George has basically overpowered the Illawarra region by financial takeover.
They reap the benefits of the juniors, the money of the fans and all to preserve the dying name of the Dragons.
Balmain and their aging dinosaur fanbase (have you seen 'em ? Pensioners on a bus by the thousand !), fear being lost in the ether of history like Wests, Newtown, Norths.
Wests have the juniors, and the cash - Balmain NEEDS them more than those arrogant arses will ever admit.
Yet behind the scenes we have this orchestrated viral media campaign to "win the hearts and minds of Rugby League" by romancing the idea that that termite infested **[automatically edited]** should be the source of all things Tigers.
An 11,000 crowd on a clear Saturday night at Leichardt is described as "bumper".
A 10,500 crowd on a rainy Friday night in Campbelltown against an interstate team, (two days after Origin - yeah, like Balmain will travel to support their club then huh), is described by the same paper as "disappointing".
If the power brokers at Balmain got their way (Elias, Sironen, Roach, Jack, Dawn Fraser, Jimmy Barnes, et al), EVERY game would be at Leichardt, while they continued to rape the Macarthur areas Junior talent stocks, and hold their hand out for "cash" from the other half.
Their sixteen different jersey combinations and the plethora of merchendise available provide the extra funds to keep the ailing Balmain alive - Wests fans will buy anything. Balmain will ONLY buy Orange.
Wests fans travel to SFS and Leichardt. - Balmain will travel to SFS and Leichardt too … But not Campbelltown. "It's too far for a Friday night after work" they say. "The M5 is a joke" they say ... yet we dont hear the go-withouts from Campbelltown complain when it's Friday at Leichardt OR Monday at SFS do we ???
I'm no Tigers fan, but I'm fiercely Campbelltown.
There's more Bulldogs around here than Tigers fans so I'm comfortable and I tolerate them.
Winning in 2005 made me happy for the locals.
But I can see what's going on here ...
When they decided to do without two feeder teams, who got to keep theirs ?
When they wrote a song to out-do the NRL, where was the Wests part ?
Make no mistake ... if they could ditch them, they would !
There's a bee-d*ck difference between historical crowd figures over the 11 years, and statistically I'm struggling to recall a massive gap in any winning rates between the two.
This notion that they are equals in this merger, is exactly that … an notion.
St George has basically overpowered the Illawarra region by financial takeover.
They reap the benefits of the juniors, the money of the fans and all to preserve the dying name of the Dragons.
Balmain and their aging dinosaur fanbase (have you seen 'em ? Pensioners on a bus by the thousand !), fear being lost in the ether of history like Wests, Newtown, Norths.
Wests have the juniors, and the cash - Balmain NEEDS them more than those arrogant arses will ever admit.
Yet behind the scenes we have this orchestrated viral media campaign to "win the hearts and minds of Rugby League" by romancing the idea that that termite infested **[automatically edited]** should be the source of all things Tigers.
An 11,000 crowd on a clear Saturday night at Leichardt is described as "bumper".
A 10,500 crowd on a rainy Friday night in Campbelltown against an interstate team, (two days after Origin - yeah, like Balmain will travel to support their club then huh), is described by the same paper as "disappointing".
If the power brokers at Balmain got their way (Elias, Sironen, Roach, Jack, Dawn Fraser, Jimmy Barnes, et al), EVERY game would be at Leichardt, while they continued to rape the Macarthur areas Junior talent stocks, and hold their hand out for "cash" from the other half.
Their sixteen different jersey combinations and the plethora of merchendise available provide the extra funds to keep the ailing Balmain alive - Wests fans will buy anything. Balmain will ONLY buy Orange.
Wests fans travel to SFS and Leichardt. - Balmain will travel to SFS and Leichardt too … But not Campbelltown. "It's too far for a Friday night after work" they say. "The M5 is a joke" they say ... yet we dont hear the go-withouts from Campbelltown complain when it's Friday at Leichardt OR Monday at SFS do we ???
I'm no Tigers fan, but I'm fiercely Campbelltown.
There's more Bulldogs around here than Tigers fans so I'm comfortable and I tolerate them.
Winning in 2005 made me happy for the locals.
But I can see what's going on here ...
When they decided to do without two feeder teams, who got to keep theirs ?
When they wrote a song to out-do the NRL, where was the Wests part ?
Make no mistake ... if they could ditch them, they would !
