we are the minority on here. Financially and for most wests tigers fans getting rid of balmain is a good decision. How many people show up to lower grade games? It all comes down to that, doesn't it? Sure, they could advertise the matches better but if people really cared about showing up the information is only a phone call away. I've never missed a match because I didn't know where it was. The fact is balmain and the magpies are dead to the fans, the majority who attend first grade attend it to support the wests tigers and would support wests tigers in first division as well.
Yappy, you go on about magpie not giving in but thats just a load of crap. If your football club was so passionately supported by the magpies board and the magpie members then firstly magpies functions would not be held at wests closest rival, you would get more then a handful of supporters at wests stand alone matches and the club would have stood up with souths four years ago and not accepted this f**king merger. But they gave up and they would do so again.
We can go on about how much balmain means to us, and it means a f**k of a lot to a lot of us but we are what....12 or so people? A lot of people at balmain claim they wouldn't support the club if balmain wasn't there but they don't even bother to show up when balmain play and that is just poor. I'm sure eventually balmain could get the support of a merger, as could wests. It's,unfortunately, only a matter of time. If people actually bothered to show up to lower grades it would be a different story, but very few people give a shit, thus why spend an extra 300k on something that doesn't matter to the majority?
