When did you become a TIGER FAN?

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I would like to know how You guys became a TIGERS FAN ?
For me it was in 1975 heading to a Balmain Game with North Sydney bears, this 6th former ask me who was going to win and i said i didn't no,He picked me up and screamed the TIGERS!! OKKKKKKKKK and i said OK OK OK!!!! from then on i was a tiger fan and i never looked back lol.
 
At the start of 1986\. Before that I was a Parra supporter (having grown up in the area and all my family and friends were Parra supporters). I don't know whether I was just being a little rebelious as a young teenager, but I just decided to change. Balmain were an exciting team playing attractive football. Oh, and they have the best mascot of any team.

I remember watching the 1986 grand final where Parra won, and I felt no emotion at all. I knew for sure that day that there would be no going back.
 
A Tiger fan when the merge happened.
A Wests fan when they moved to Campbelltown.
Prior to that a Berries fan
cheers
 
I was at first a Knights fan, when they came into the comp I was 3 1/2 so the promotion of the team really caught my eye (at that age what doesn't!!) plus I lived up in the Newcastle area (they are still my second team).

But at the end of '89 the family and I moved down to Campbelltown so by 1990 I had become a Magpies fan (had to support the team that I could actually get to the ground where they played, plus, once again the promotions helped sway a 5 year old and also having a very young Jason Taylor sign autographs outside David Wilsons Chemist helped as well)

The when the merge was being discussed I almost stopped supporting anyone (especially with the possible Magpies/Dogs merge) but when it was decided on the Tigers/Magpies merge I went with it as it united my family (my mother was a tigers fan).

That is my story and I am sticking to it!!!
 
Mid 88, there was a parra tigers game televised. Living in the parra area I guess it was expected of me to follow the slimey suckers but being an impressionable 8 year old the colours and tigers mascot swayed me. As those above have said, never looked back!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I became a Tigers fan in the early 80's when I moved to the inner west with my partner,
who was a Tigers fan. Half of his family were Tigers fans and half were Wests fans so the merge
has made us one big, happy family! Yay! :smiley:
 
@Mrs T said:
I became a Tigers fan in the early 80's when I moved to the inner west with my partner,
who was a Tigers fan. Half of his family were Tigers fans and half were Wests fans so the merge
has made us one big, happy family! Yay! :smiley:
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Happy??????

For me it was 1978 - long time…......
 
Was a Magpies fan pre merger (Dad grew up around Lidcombe when Wests played there) so his influence was there. But we lived in the Drummoyne area and my brother and I played under the Balmain league, so the Tigers were always our second team.

When they merged it was PERFECT.

I was always a Wests Tigers fan but really started getting into them around 2002-03.

2003 I went to my first interstate game in Melbourne. Since 2006 Ive been to 8 more interstate games. Now at age 18, I've been to every ground in the NRL and 2009 I went to every game. Can't see myself missing another game. Except I'm getting extremely worried for next year as my sister is getting married on the Anzac Day weekend in Tamworth .. I hope they get a Friday or Monday game that weekend!
 
I was 6 years old, turning 7 later that year, when my old man took me to Western Suburbs first game at Campbelltown Stadium in 1987\. It was against Parramatta. I was hooked and started supporting the mighty Magpies ever since. We won and I went to all the games at Campbelltown Stadium after that, right through to 1999 when we formed a joint-venture with Balmain. So in 2000 I become a Wests Tigers fan but I'll always be a Magpie at heart. I still go to Magpies games in the NSW Cup.
 
When my mun was released from hospital when giving birth to me in 1977, we went straight from the hospital to Leichhardt Oval, so i guess i was born a Tiger.
 
I lived at Auburn & was a wests junior, I never cared much about 1st grade untill 1966 when a mate of mine was graded from Leichhardt Police Boys to Balmain his name was Terry Parker so I used to attend all his games then the BIG one the 69' Grand Final which he played centre..the rest is history. :stuck_out_tongue:
 
July 1971\. That month, I came into this world in a dimly lit back room above the shops in Darling Street, Rozelle, about 100 metres from the Balmain Leagues Club - I had no choice but to support Balmain. Grew up on the hill.

I became an avid Wests Tigers supporter in 1999.
 
1998, I was 9 years old and I had watched Rugby League sporadically on tv for about 6 years.

I didnt really have a team to follow but my dad said he went for parramatta (Because he lived there in the 80s) and Balmain.

I didnt see much of Balmain back then because ch 9 only showed games involving the best teams, so I saw parra a lot more.

So initially I became a parra fan, but that was until later that year when I saw a couple of Balmain games when we got Foxtel.

The game that got me hooked on the Tigers was when, on a wet night at LO, Balmain drew 10 all with ladder leaders Brisbane. I knew Brisbane were a great team and Balmain wasnt, but even back then I admired their guts and determination as underdogs and thats what got me hooked onto Balmain.

Add to that, Ive lived in Campbelltown my whole and so as soon as the merger occurred, I was one very happy Wests Tigers kid!! :sign:
 
March 1973- when I was born in Auburn Hospital. I grew up on the hill at Lidcombe Oval :laughing: My Mum was a mad Magpies fan so I had no chance, it rubbed off on me from birth :unamused: Have never supported any other team.

:supporter:
 
I became a Balmain supporter in 1989 when i was 8\. Before then, i wasnt too concerned about League and Mum had tried to make me a Parra Supporter.

I had influnces from a mate at School who was a Balmain supporter + a couple of cousins who were Balmain fans but still i never took much notice. Then in 89, Dad (Wests Supporter) took me to my 1st League Game game which was at Leichardt Oval in an attempt to make me a Magpies Man…...Balmain won 40-0 that day LOL and i never looked back.

Dad got his way in the end when in 2000, Balmain Merged with Wests. :laughing:

Funny Enough, I also had Uncles And Cousins who supported Wests, so now the whole family are united on the Footy Field.
 
I was born in 1969 and my dad and pop were both born and bred in balmain.

We use to go every week from 74 onwards so i really didnt have a choice.

Grew up in wooloomooloo east suburbs and was the only balmain supporter apart from family members in the school.

Wests were my second team cause i love the biff and wests use to do plenty of it.
 
1986, I turned on the TV and saw a game of league being played between Balmain and the Bulldogs. It looked like fun and I liked the colour Balmain wore so that had me hooked. Started playing playing the next year.
 
I was born into it. I literrally can not remember a time in my life when i wasnt watching balmain games with dad.
When it was announced balmain was merging i was devestated and pretty much decided i wouldnt be watching the new team (nothing against wests at all, i just wanted my old balmain back), but as the first wests tigers game rolled around i realised i was looking forward to it, i liked our new jerseys, logo etc. and on that day, when they ran out against the broncos i realised the passion was still there and from that moment i knew this team would never leave me, even if i wanted it. :supporter: :sign:
 
Born a Balmain Tigers fan - back in the days when you supported the "Local" club (bordered North Sydney so could have gone either way. Went out to a few games in 69 with dad, and watched the grand final on TV.
Doesn't matter where I move to, who I married, or who's winning, the black and gold (and now white) is in my veins…... :sign:
 
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