yappy said:
Um mate it was you who started the name calling. Henson said nothing about Wests Tigers fans, just that he wished some Balmain fans had stuck solid like the Magpies Diehards. He put the boot into Munk and the Balmain board, but he pays his membership fees so he has every right.
Shall we call this.... Exhibit A ?
There is more heart and soul in the 13 blokes who pull on the Royal Blue of Newtown then there is combned with the whole of the Wests Tigers, and I'm not having a go at the Die Hards or the likes of Tigger. I'm talking about the muppets who supported the killing of two founation clubs.
I'd say that's cleary a shot at people who have embraced the JV.
If I'm going to be a Muppet, I'd like to be Kermit, cos he got some Pork.
By the way, I haven't begun to name call. When it happens, there'll be no doubt in your mind.
yappy said:
It was you who came onto a thread where several fans have enjoyed memories of times past and contributed such gems as:
Jeez, you've got problems.
Well, he does have problems. He follows.... Newtown. Granted, not as pathetic as following Ananndale or even Sydney University, but still pretty pathetic.
yappy said:
and the perennial chestnut...
1982 is long gone, try living in the year 2003 like the rest of us.
Well, judging by his posts, I'm amazed that he's posting here. I'm amazed that he knows about the internet. Chestnutty enough?
yappy said:
It's a free thread and if that's what you want to contribute fine. Enjoy your moment and your next Tigers game. I know I'm going to love watching the Magpies, and I have no doubt Henson will enjoy watching the Jets and if you want to tell the likes of us that we've got problems we won't lose a moments sleep, but we might return serve just for the f*ck of it.
Please do. I like Dinosaurs. They give Palaeontologists a job.
yappy said:
You still haven't given any answer to why supporting a First Grade side is so important whether it is selling out or not. Perhaps its a question whose answer is too uncomfortable to be admitted, or perhaps you've just never even considered the alternative. You say you wouldn't undersell another supporter just because they only watch First Grade - yet you've proven yourself to be completely happy to do so if they don't want to watch First Grade at all - interesting. Those of us who have no interest in First Grade are presumably less than everyone else or why else would we be open to such attack as 'pathetic', 'irrelevant', '1/2 as intelligent as flares', 'winos', and my personal fave 'mental home escapee'.
You're the one who thinks that he's "special" because he holds out for the old days. The whole argument gets less relevant as the years tick by. The last two seasons Wests were a stand alone in FG were diabolical. I know, because I was there for them. We were on the verge of going the way of the Rams and the Reds. But we survived, you seem to have a large problem with that and I don't.
Let's not get confused, there's nothing wrong with following a Premier League side only, but don't for a second think that it gives you the right to call anyone who follows the JV club a sell out. You seem to have this position where you believe you can dictate the terms people should be supporting the club.
You people throw the words "Sell out" around like you've got the patent on it. Yet, without what you call selling out, there'd be no FG side at all. That would mean that most of us would be jealous of Manly and that under any circumstances, isn't on.
I remember when the JV was announced feeling a great sense of relief that we weren't going to go out backwards. If we hadn't JV'd, we probably wouldn't exist at all, except in the hearts of the die-hards.
A supporter is a supporter, if he or she pays money at the gate, it doesn't matter who they are, they are no more or less important than you.
yappy said:
So you can drop the hurt and injured crap act. You can clearly dish it out, you should be big enough to cop the returns. Especially when you have taken it upon yourself to start it up. I'm not putting myself on any pedestal, I'm putting myself at the games or in any other position that might put back something into the club that has given me so much.
Hurt? LOL
Give it your best shot mate. I've argued with every man and his dog here. I had a stand up blue with Brook when she took aim at Wests, I'm not above giving you a serve for being full of yourself if you show yourself to be just that.
Don't make me cut and paste the evidence...
yappy said:
As you have young kids might I make a friendly suggestion? Bring them to the stand alone games like I do. $10 gets me and the missus in - next year it will be free with our footy club membership. The small crowd means you don't have to worry so much about the kids or all the problems that are potential at NRL crowds. You get the hills pretty much to yourself and they can run around in safety. Hell they might even enjoy the game like my daughter does. For your $10 you even get to come back to the pub after the game and join in the free buffet. You might have reason to knock Premier League and the Club that plays in it and the fans that support it - but value for money is surely not one of them. Its an alternative well worth considering I reckon and I'm sure glad Campbelltown Stadium when the Maggies are playing was where I found myself after escaping the asylum. ;-)
Tried that. My kids don't want to see the Premier League matches unless they're played before the FG. They're part of a generation that wants their team to be in the news, not a team that is a footnote in the results pages of the Sunday papers.
But that's the way of the world unfortunately. Newtown are a footnote, Wests Magpies are a footnote and the Balmain Tigers are a footnote. If you're not in the News or the Papers, you're irrelevant. I didn't make those rules.
You may well have been happy for Wests to go the way of Newtown, but most of us weren't and accept the reality of the JV. It was that or nothing.
