Miracle Balls said:
Personally I can't remember too much of a Canterbury/Wests rivalry. I thought Balmain had more of a rivalry with them, having played them in Semis and a Grand Final in the Eighties.
The Canterbury-Bankstown - Western Suburbs rivarly first began in 1935 when the Bulldogs
(or Berries, CB's as they were known as back then) first came into the competition. How? Due to the districts and each football club had their own segment of the Sydney area, Canterbury were basically given a huge slice of Western Suburbs territory. This was the second time in a matter of years the Magpies were gipped by the NSWRL with the inclusion of St. George in 1921, they were forced to give up certain region's of their district, and with Canterbury coming in and basically just taking their district juniors included, it left a very sour and bitter taste in the the Mouths of the Western Suburbs Magpies football club.
And when you look at the last few years, the Bulldogs tried to do it again, first trying to take over the club via merger as well as the Oasis project which would have seen Canterbury come watlzing in and gobbleing up all the Western Suburbs district in the Campbelltown-Macarthur-Liverpool area. Then there's also the Mick Libinskis controversey that occured in the 70's, which saw the Magpies i think stripped of points over an illegal interchange, or something like that. Some older Magpies maybe able to correct me or add to that. But yeah that's the main jist of the rivarly that exsists between the two clubs.
