When exactly did it get personal, mel?
When you knocked me, without addressing the issues, solely for having a different POV to yourself.
I like reading your postings during the season, I find you to be quite a good analyst of our teams performances, but don't demand I agree with your viewpoint, just because you have chosen a different path to me.
I'll respect your view for as long as you give me that in return.
It's surely not too much to ask?
I'm thinking it was here ?
Your initial post, in it's entirety, essentially advocated killing off any attachment to the Balmain of old, and reverting to what Wests were in the 90's.
But being that the thread is about the State Cup sides, that is what that final comment was speaking on.
My annoyance over a merged state cup team is certainly not entirely based around nostalgia.
Play all the games at Lillyfield rectangle...if it makes you happy..Hell everything else is over there...except of course the player pool.
I have never said that, hell go back and look at my whinging post game one of the finals where I even advocated possibly playing out of Campbelltown.
My dream is to increase the bloody games played out at Campbelltown, not reduce them. Of course, I'd like to see the Leichhardt Oval allocation increased as well.
It would be better... but the players are still at school and presumably without drivers licenses.....of course training would be at Balmain even thou a Wests Tigers Harold Mats and SG Ball team would be predominately made up of Wests players...... for no other reason than that's where the larger population is !
No it bloody wouldn't. They are two unique areas, deserving of their own representation, certainly in part because of what you post above.
But by the same token, had we had merged juniors all along, would our captain play for us or Canterbury?
We may not produce the same number of juniors that you lot do down there, but we do produce some quality players, making that junior nursery just as worthwhile of maintaining as the larger, sth western one.
I'm happy with the merge, I'm happy with the current set up of 1 x NRL and 2 x State Cup sides, not overly amused with the merry go round of 'home grounds' (SFS/Leichhardt/Campbelltown) but understand why they are doing it but reckon we should do Leichhardt and Campbelltown and give SFS the flick.
I won't give up on the JV personally, even if the idea makes me extremely unhappy, but everyone is entitled to support the team for their own reasons.
In reference to the quoted, I agree 110%. We do desperately need to find a way to get back to the old 6/6 split. For as much as it's fairer on the Sth Western region than anything else.
I'd actually be interested to hear from anyone more knowledgable int he clubs finances than to me to know how important the SFS deal is in making the JV profitable. Could we bone the SFS deal and still turn a profit? (Without having to resort to handouts from the Wests Leagues clubs / Obviously nothing would be coming out of Balmain)
Your comment about a Balmain Magpies merged JV side is actually an intruiging thought. BUT you'd have to be fair and correct the JV's name at NRL level too were you to go down that road imo
Still doesn't change the fact though that for mine, we are reducing our talent pool, which I just don't see as being a positive step.
Tigers or Mapgies originally, doesn't matter lol
