Raider_69 said:
Yea your club was built from 2 existing clubs, with a whole host of money to go with it to buy players, our club was built from scratch, filling it with local players and a few decent names... 2 very different parallels, but dont let the facts get in the way of a good yarn. By all rights with the leg up you were given no premierships inside the first 5 years is a stunning failure!
And no royce's trys dont haunt me, as we are a single club were able to go on to better things in 94... Balmain on the other hand are now all but dead and their greatest legacy was losing the best GF of all time... ha!
No Premierships inside the first five years is a failure? What do you consider your club over the last 11 years? From 3 Premierships in 6 years to never looking like getting close? Despite having one of the largest junior areas in the whole league?
Exactly Royce's tries dont haunt you, you saw your team win a Premiership that erased that memory. Same as I did. Youve never played sport have you? I lost four Grand Finals in a row in footy, won the next comp and due to the heart breaks of the previous Grand Finals it made the victory sweeter then I could ever have imagined. I never even think about the four losses now. Not even the one we lost in extra time when I had a try dissallowed on full time.
And no Balmain will be remembered for winning 11 Premierships, being a foundation club and being 50% of the 2005 Premiers.
1989 is only called the greatest Grand Final (mainly by Canberra fans) due to it going into extra time and it still being in recent memory. If you actually watch it as a nuetural fan you will notice it is actually very scrappy. The 1997 ARL Grand Final and 2003 were both much better spectacules. I'd say the 1991 and 1993 games were aswell. And for pure entertainment 1994 has some outstanding tries.
