The Joint Venture Is Broken

[alien]

f**k you nc

balmain cant even afford their own nsw cup team. they were balmain RYDE EASTWOOD tigers, because ryde eastwood league were paying for them. why do magpies have to make the sacrifice and die (merging with balmain just because balmain cant afford it). magpies should be the wt feeder team in the nsw cup and all nrl players not required for 1st grade go to the magpies. im sure if that happened wests ashfield would definitely fund the side and the money wests tigers would save on not having to spend money on a nsw cup side could go to the juniors. im sure the magpies could train with wests tigers once a fortnight or whatever to keep a connection with wests tigers. and the players from magpies who get into the 1st grade side would train all week with the tigers too

 

[gronkathon]

Western Suburbs football club can't afford a team ither.

If they could they wouldn't be reliant on funding from a seperate entity in Wests Ashfield.

Train with them once a fortnight??? NSW Cup is the support, it is not the main game. Every part of a football club exists to service their NRL side.

 

[alien]

and wests campbelltown and wests ashfield should be funding the wests magpies. thats why they exist in the first place. bunch of f**ken traitors

 

[alien]

Most likely because there is a better bargaining position for both sides if the joint team is to come into being. Especially now that Wests Tigers has indicated their interest in administrating both junior leagues and raising sponsorship dollars etc.

If I were in their position that would be what I would do

and you are a sucker

 

[gronkathon]

Wests Campbelltown and Wests Ashfield do not exist to fund the Wests Magpies NSW Cup. If I am not mistaken both do contribute to the junior leagues which is the actual community purpose of a leagues club.

I wouldn't expect you to understand that though.

Flinging wild accusations without any evidenciary proof is all that you appear capable of and it is people who act like that which have done so much harm to the cause of the Western Suburbs Magpies for so many years.

 

[alien]

they should be funding the juniors AND the senior side

 

[gronkathon]

What you think they SHOULD be doing and what their main community function IS are obviously different things.

 

[unforgiven]

So Alien, Ill ask again, what is it you want to happen? What is the point where you will be happy?

 

[unforgiven]

Also, do you actually believe that the Magpies have been beneficial to the Macarthur region?

 

[alien]

their supposed to be magpies leagues clubs but theyre a bunch of traitors

 

[gronkathon]

Yeah, funding those 6+ year olds is such devious, underhanded work

 

[unforgiven]

their supposed to be magpies leagues clubs but theyre a bunch of traitors

What if they have decided that funding the Wests Magpies State Cup team is not in the best intrests of league in the region.

 

[The Charlatan]

and you are a sucker

And your stupidity knows no bounds. The posturing of you and your fellow Magpies is only going to push WT farther away.

 

[The Charlatan]

and you are a sucker

What if they have decided that funding the Wests Magpies State Cup team is not in the best intrests of league in the region.

That's the kicker, Wests Ashfield would rather ally themselves with the successes of Wests Tigers, why spend hundreds of thousands of dollars of your own cash for a State Cup team when someone else is offering to do it for you?

 

[unforgiven]

That's the kicker, Wests Ashfield would rather ally themselves with the successes of Wests Tigers, why spend hundreds of thousands of dollars of your own cash for a State Cup team when someone else is offering to do it for you?

It may also allow them to better fund and serve the junior leagues.

 

[The Charlatan]

It may also allow them to better fund and serve the junior leagues.

Bingo, which is what the rally was primarily about, wasn't it?

Someone has forgotten to tell the likes of Alien that though. :sarcasm:

 

[N.C.]

f**k you nc

balmain cant even afford their own nsw cup team. they were balmain RYDE EASTWOOD tigers, because ryde eastwood league were paying for them. why do magpies have to make the sacrifice and die (merging with balmain just because balmain cant afford it). magpies should be the wt feeder team in the nsw cup and all nrl players not required for 1st grade go to the magpies. im sure if that happened wests ashfield would definitely fund the side and the money wests tigers would save on not having to spend money on a nsw cup side could go to the juniors. im sure the magpies could train with wests tigers once a fortnight or whatever to keep a connection with wests tigers. and the players from magpies who get into the 1st grade side would train all week with the tigers too

I can't understand why they didn't give you the job as CEO. You was robbed.

 

[alien]

Western Suburbs Magpies to enter final season

• by: Christian Nicolussi
• From:The Daily Telegraph
• January 11, 201212:00AM

FOUNDATION club Western Suburbs Magpies are about to approach their final winter in Sydney before they vanish once and for all.

But the diehards out west are not prepared to go quietly, organising a protest rally on February 5 to fight for survival.

When the Magpies merged with Balmain in 1999 to form the Wests Tigers, one of the agreements was Wests and Balmain maintain their own identities in the NSW Cup.

But as of 2013, Wests Tigers plan to field just one team in the Cup to save money for junior development - meaning Wests Magpies will cease to exist at senior level.

Officials at Wests have privately fumed they have received the raw end of the deal from the Wests Tigers marriage. They do not appear on the Wests Tigers logo, and in recent years have watched all NRL fringe players sent to Balmain.

Magpies chairman Paul Dillon last night said he was disappointed with the Wests Tigers and their plans to enter just one team in the Cup - even if it sounded the death knell of the same club that made Tommy Raudonikis, Noel Kelly and Keith Holman household names.
Even if they wanted to go it alone, the Magpies could not afford it as major backers Wests Ashfield, who spend $300,000 on the Cup side, will end their association at season's end."We're very disappointed with the Wests Tigers, and what should have been a wonderful celebration has come to this," Dillon said.

"The agreement was the Wests Tigers be the NRL side, and Wests and Balmain remain in the NSW Cup. We offered to the Tigers to play in the NSW Cup with a Magpies jersey and stick a Tiger on the sleeve but they said no."

Dillon said there were disgruntled junior clubs in the region who had been barred from training and playing in the Campbelltown district. He said the protest also wanted to highlight the need for more than four NRL games to be played at Campbelltown.

The merger has meant Wests Tigers have needed to spend up to $1 million annually to support two NSW Cup teams.

Tigers chief executive Stephen Humphreys said last night that junior development programs needed to be a higher priority than running two State Cup sides.

"In my opinion Wests Balmain and Wests Tigers spend an inordinate amount of time, money and effort on the NSW Cup, and I believe we'd all be far better off if some of that time, effort and money was redirected into the junior leagues and junior development programs," he said.

"I've expressed that view to the Wests Tigers directors."
Western Suburbs Magpies will maintain an identity in the junior representative competitions but cease to exist at senior level.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...ter-final-season/story-e6frexnr-1226241210873

 

[alien]

see how humphreys is a con-man. see how he makes it out like wests tigers were paying for the magpies and balmain in nsw cup. dillon is a hero. he has had them wankers pressuring him but he has stayed strong and has stood up to them

 

[alien]

I can't understand why they didn't give you the job as CEO. You was robbed.

i guess because im not a con-man and have morals