Great post. I can guarantee you and everyone else that all of us St George fans that supported us before 99 feel that we still support St George. We didn't all just start supporting a new club in 99. As I previously mentioned, we are still St George, we kept our famous Jersey, we are still the Dragons and we still have exactly the same emblem that we did before the joint venture, except the word Illawarra was added to the emblem. Illawarra effectively lost their identity in the Joint Venture.
Personally I would like us drop the Illawarra from our identity and go back to being St George Dragons. If I was a billionaire, I would by us and we would go back to being just St George Dragons, with a state of the art home ground at Kogarah, or a new 40 000 plus stadium built in the St George area. I would also support the funding for Illawarra Steelers to have their owe team back with Woolongong as their home ground.
I will also add that when the joint venture happened, the NRL said that there would be no more than 14 teams in the comp. We should be saying that before any more teams are added, that we want to dissolve the Joint Venture and go back to being 2 separate clubs, like we used to be. If I bought us I would gladly pay back the measly 6 million dollars that the NRL offered us to merge.