Bengal said:
pennywisealfie said:
If ARL still ran the game i think id be sitting on the internet right now talking about soccer, my fave game in the world and wouldnt give a f**k about league. i wouldnt have a team to support because the Broncos would be long gone.
I asked this same question somewhere else, but what do you base your view on? What was the ARL doing or not doing to make you feel this way?
Umm well Super League was born in the the Broncos boardroom. They started a rebel league and almost killed the code with stupidity and arrogance. If that isn't reason for expulsion then what is?
Having said that the ARL was far from innocent. Being a Wests Tigers supporter if Super League hadn't come along i would have no team to support at all. The Balmain Tigers were given criteria to meet by 97 in 94 by the ARL, which they had zero chance of ever meeting. The ARL wouldnt have offered incentives for merger. The ARL always intended to cut teams.
Balmain would have been stuck with takeover from Parramatta or would fail to exist in any form.
I was always an ARL supporter but Balmain were broke and barely got a cent of help from the ARL. Instead the ARL chose to pay reserve grade players like Scott Fulton $200,000 a year and the Knights millions of dollars just to stay afloat.