Wests Tigers could call Campbelltown home due to Balmain’s financial woes

@GNR4LIFE said:
@foreveratiger said:
For a Monday Night low on a working Night ? yeah your clutching , beats your Saturday afternoon at Campbelltown , don't let facts get in the way .

Things a looking up on the field and you want to drag that old chest nut .

Very Sad

Like i said, i avoided that one for a reason. Turns out i was right.

Some just don't like facts and your trying to convince where the future lies , love your work :laughing:
 
@Tony33 said:
@foreveratiger said:
@GNR4LIFE said:
@Tony33 said:
That negates the whole it "needs" to happen argument.

The population in Western Sydney is booming, yet NRL crowds are declining. Conversely, the Western Sydney Wanderers have a waiting list for memberships and have much better crowds on average.

Do the math..

Not just in Western Sydney. The LO crowd was low too, but i decided to let that one go at the risk of it being labeled Balmain bashing.

For a Monday Night low on a working Night ? yeah your clutching , beats your Saturday afternoon at Campbelltown , don't let facts get in the way .

Things a looking up on the field and you want to drag that old chest nut .

Very Sad

See this is what we don't want ! "no leichardts better" "no campbeltowns better"

Come on guys and girls, every things looking positive on and off the field lets put this childish stuff to the side and enjoy the ride.

It isn't going to happen anytime soon anyway, the board isn't that stupid no matter where their loyalties lie.

Agreed Tony

Some just can't help themselves Tony
 
For someone who has gotten stuck into me more than once about how i conduct myself on here, you're always good for a personal insult FT

Anyway, this really isn't going anywhere.
 
It seems likely that in the near future ex Balmain supporters & management will rightly have no say in what Wests Ashfield does with the Wests Tigers football team.

It is rather ironic that the millions of dollars annually generated by losing poker machine patrons at Wests Ashfield in the inner west will probably help catapult the Wests Tigers football team away from Concord & Leichhardt to Campbelltown.

All money talks. Even poker machine money from Liverpool Road, Ashfield.

I am originally from the "Balmain side" of the merger but am 100 percent behind the Wests Tigers. I will support the club as long as it is based somewhere in Sydney. Ideally in the long term I think the team should be based in the south west preferably at a new purpose built league stadium with great parking & public transport facilities.
 
@GNR4LIFE said:
For someone who has gotten stuck into me more than once about how i conduct myself on here, you're always good for a personal insult FT

Anyway, this really isn't going anywhere.

Says the one that started a Thread on me last year attacking me during the Auckland 9's , yeah your funny :roll
 
@foreveratiger said:
@GNR4LIFE said:
For someone who has gotten stuck into me more than once about how i conduct myself on here, you're always good for a personal insult FT

Anyway, this really isn't going anywhere.

Says the one that started a Thread on me last year attacking me during the Auckland 9's , yeah your funny :roll

Huh? I don't remember that, do you have a link?
 
@GNR4LIFE said:
@foreveratiger said:
@GNR4LIFE said:
For someone who has gotten stuck into me more than once about how i conduct myself on here, you're always good for a personal insult FT

Anyway, this really isn't going anywhere.

Says the one that started a Thread on me last year attacking me during the Auckland 9's , yeah your funny :roll

Huh? I don't remember that, do you have a link?

Funny how we forget , will see if i can find it.
 
@hammertime said:
@GNR4LIFE said:
@hammertime said:
How about alienating half the supporter base? dumb, dumb, dumb. Just when the club was on the up, the lunatics are let out of the asylum.

Well, you'll find that a large number of the supporter base have already felt alienated for yrs and halve walked away from the club. I suppose that's different though.

All this is just rediculously dumb. Timing, rationale, thought process. It's so childish, it's like a kid who doesn't want to share. The club was doing so well! The tigers have a bright future, we're winning games and for once there is stability and some vision. These amature hour nutjobs better not get control of the club.

Is that the same amateur hour nut jobs who have ran the Balmain club into the ground over years.
From what I have read on here from time to time, I thought that Liverpool was the direction that we were heading in anyway.
Anyway Wests seem to have done a reasonable job since they've had control, and I'd expect that if we were to move anywhere, it would be pretty well researched before. We seem to be the nomads of the league,at the moments, and whatever happens down the track, I'd rather see us in the one decent ground with decent facilities for the team and the supporters
A bit of stability would be good for the team.
 
@Go Moltzen said:
It seems likely that in the near future ex Balmain supporters & management will rightly have no say in what Wests Ashfield does with the Wests Tigers football team.

**It is rather ironic that the millions of dollars annually generated by losing poker machine patrons at Wests Ashfield in the inner west will probably help catapult the Wests Tigers football team away from Concord & Leichhardt to Campbelltown.**

All money talks. Even poker machine money from Liverpool Road, Ashfield.

I am originally from the "Balmain side" of the merger but am 100 percent behind the Wests Tigers. I will support the club as long as it is based somewhere in Sydney. Ideally in the long term I think the team should be based in the south west preferably at a new purpose built league stadium with great parking & public transport facilities.

Good point. The amount of money my friends and I have lost at that place. It's good to know we're directly contributing towards the club I support, especially considering they're Bulldogs supporters :laughing:
 
imo not much to worry about.

Cambo has no financial interest in the Weststigers, it's all fully funded by the Ashfield club who really don't want to play all the way out south/west. We want the junior nursery so have pay them lip service.

Time will tell i guess. Also important to note the most controversial comments are from FORMER Western Suburbs chairman Jim Marsden.
 
Simon Cook the only person with quotation marks that is from the Wests side and on the board of the JV said nothing other than things will be up for discussion.

Would have thought those from the Balmain side would have been happy with his views on the JV and Balmains heritage. Remember on here some saying a few years back all games should be at LO. If the situation was reversed don't know if I would be confident on Balmains magnanimity.

Anyways I am from the innercity Wests side and wouldn't want all games at CS. Surely we can keey everyone happy.

As for crowds would have preferred Manly game at a Wests venue. Most wouldn't have been to inspired to watch them in the heat at 5.30pm before the team showed their new look style.
Saturday 5.30 against Warriors wouldn't have got any more.at LO either.
 
@Defiant said:
imo not much to worry about.

Cambo has no financial interest in the Weststigers, it's all fully funded by the Ashfield club who really don't want to play all the way out south/west. We want the junior nursery so have pay them lip service.

Time will tell i guess. Also important to note the most controversial comments are from FORMER Western Suburbs chairman Jim Marsden.

Thinking the same Defiant - the reaction has all been directed toward the comments made by Jim Marsden which were not the surprising
I will just add that anyone who thinks the CBD/inner west is not a growth area time you had another look - anywhere within 15ks of the CBD is being bombarded with new housing - multi storey housing .
 
@Telltails said:
@Defiant said:
imo not much to worry about.

Cambo has no financial interest in the Weststigers, it's all fully funded by the Ashfield club who really don't want to play all the way out south/west. We want the junior nursery so have pay them lip service.

Time will tell i guess. Also important to note the most controversial comments are from FORMER Western Suburbs chairman Jim Marsden.

Thinking the same Defiant - the reaction has all been directed toward the comments made by Jim Marsden which were not the surprising
I will just add that anyone who thinks the CBD/inner west is not a growth area time you had another look - anywhere within 15ks of the CBD is being bombarded with new housing - multi storey housing .

Agree.
But that housing growth may not be made up of too many RL people.

But this could be an issue with RL and other things going forward.
 
@Telltails said:
@Defiant said:
imo not much to worry about.

Cambo has no financial interest in the Weststigers, it's all fully funded by the Ashfield club who really don't want to play all the way out south/west. We want the junior nursery so have pay them lip service.

Time will tell i guess. Also important to note the most controversial comments are from FORMER Western Suburbs chairman Jim Marsden.

Thinking the same Defiant - the reaction has all been directed toward the comments made by Jim Marsden which were not the surprising
I will just add that anyone who thinks the CBD/inner west is not a growth area time you had another look - anywhere within 15ks of the CBD is being bombarded with new housing - multi storey housing .

This is area that Harry T' is,tide to.
 
@GNR4LIFE said:
@foreveratiger said:
@GNR4LIFE said:
For someone who has gotten stuck into me more than once about how i conduct myself on here, you're always good for a personal insult FT

Anyway, this really isn't going anywhere.

Says the one that started a Thread on me last year attacking me during the Auckland 9's , yeah your funny :roll

Huh? I don't remember that, do you have a link?

This is the Thread you thought you would start and direct a thread to me , your Childish demeanour never seems to amaze me . Then you want to play the poor child :bawling :bawling :bawling

http://www.weststigersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=23146&p=557775&hilit=foreveratiger#p557775
 
@foreveratiger said:
@GNR4LIFE said:
@foreveratiger said:
@GNR4LIFE said:
For someone who has gotten stuck into me more than once about how i conduct myself on here, you're always good for a personal insult FT

Anyway, this really isn't going anywhere.

Says the one that started a Thread on me last year attacking me during the Auckland 9's , yeah your funny :roll

Huh? I don't remember that, do you have a link?

This is the Thread you thought you would start and direct a thread to me , your Childish demeanour never seems to amaze me . Then you want to play the poor child :bawling :bawling :bawling

http://www.weststigersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=23146&p=557775&hilit=foreveratiger#p557775

:roll
And we almost got the spoon :laughing:
 
Keep winning and you will pack all WT home grounds….

Our Bandwagon is the Pride of the League...Happened in '05/'10 and '11..

The important info from the Article is the direct quotes from Simon Cook...you would think that would allay the fears of fossils re Wests Tigers brand and dash the hopes fanatics that want the Magpies back...not what Marsden thinks should happen re home games...but alas reading the posts it appears not...

Wests Ashfield CEO Simon Cook said a decision about where the club played its games would be up to the re-formed board.
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“It’s a decision for the Wests Tigers board,” he said.
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“I wouldn’t want to speculate on that at this point.
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“Campbelltown is and always will play a huge role for the Wests Tigers club.
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“The whole south west of Sydney, including Campbelltown is extremely important to Wests Tigers.’’
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While there is the possibility of an increased on-field presence in Campbelltown, Mr Cook was quick to pour water on the possibility of a return to the Magpies brand or black and white colours returning.
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He said there were no circumstances under which the Wests Tigers brand would or could be changed.
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“The club won’t revert to the magpies,” he said.
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“There is a heritage deed in place protecting the club’s name and colours which doesn’t cease to exist regardless of who is in control of the club.
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“The ability of the club to rebrand is not commercially viable.”
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“Wests Tigers is a brand and a successful brand and it should remain in place whoever ends up with the licence.”
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“Whatever happens, the Wests Tigers brand won’t change,” said Mr Cook.
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“We’re having constructive conversations with Balmain and the NRL right now to try to find a solution.”

None the less..carry on...
 
I'll bring my view as i have always said it .

If Balmain can't cough up the money ? well then really there is nothing there that they own and soon that's what will happen and technically they have no right to voice anything in regards with the Wests Tigers.
BUT…......
What your dealing here is with Emotions and what will be the realisation of a History that has attachments to many supporters of past generations that will quite simply be vanished every memory i have as a kid belongs in that Leichardt ground.
My prediction is......once Balmain is gone as that's what's going to happen and if they are to distribute 6 games at Campbelltown and 6 at ANZ for arguments sake ? i feel we will loose many supporters as any ties that some Balmain supporters might have ? will say to themselves " i don't feel any ties to this Club anymore " not everyone will feel that way but there will be a percentage that will and will be lost .

Yeah we all know Leichardt has no right in hosting any games cause there not coughing any $$$$$.
I would like a worse case scenario of 8 games at ANZ , 3 at Campbelltown and 1 game at Leichardt for the simple fact of passing on to future kids what got us supporting this great Club , would love to take my son one Day to leichardt and walk up the Hill next to the old La Montage and tell the stories to my son about what it was like for me and his Grandad...." like the times we would be stuck in traffic for 45 minutes trying to get out of Leichardt but it never mattered when we won and how we would slide down that Hill on rainy Days on cardboard .
Anyway for me Wests Tigers is my only Love but it's important to our future kids how we came to Love this Club .
Just my Opinion.
 
1 game at each venue. The rest at Homebush. Take the cash and get our finances right. We give up a lot of money playing the amount of games we do at both the grounds.

Homebush has all the facilities the players need as well.

I won't cop having to go to Campelltown (at least an hours drive + traffic) for every "home" game. Who's home exactly? The future is not in Western Sydney. The future is creating a club that people want to play for.

We can have a presence in both areas without having to move permanently to CS.

If I'm a promising youngster from Holy Cross, you've got buckleys of getting me to play, train and live in Campbelltown.

Someone mentioned the Bulldogs in Bankstown…Bankstown is 25-30 minutes from Ryde/Gladesville/Hunters Hill. You can pick a nice spot to live in Sydney and still train there. Campbelltown is only practical for a few...last time I checked, we're all in this together. I think it'd be a dirty move.

My 2 cents...
 
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