Wests Tigers take over bid

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Once again how is it different to EPL and other sports?

We know why you're doing this and its pretty cringy.

Subjective opinion noted.

 

[Mr Spock!]

So you bent over for rusty instead...
Nobody is denying souffs have history dating back to 1908. To assume the Wests Tigers history doesn't go back to the same year is obviously incorrect, yet that seems to be what you believe, which is clearly inconsistent logic.

No it doesn't...Totally different....

Western Magpies and Balmain Tigers are gone....

You don't share their history.

It's gone.

The West Tigers have not won 16 premierships.

They have won 1.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Subjective opinion noted.

Complete hypocrisy noted.

Btw not applying the same standards to clubs across sporting codes is the definition of subjective opinion.

 

[Mr Spock!]

NSWRL pre-1988 was a less prestigious competition because it was competing with BRL for the game's best players. Around 60 of the BRL's best players entered the NSWRL in 1988, increasing the standard of play.

The best team in the country during the 1980s was the Wynnum Manly Seagulls, who had four Australian Kangaroos in their squad. No team from the NSWRL had a better roster. Combined Brisbane beat your teams.

1988 saw the Brisbane Broncos (the cream of the BRL) not finish in the finals.....

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

No it doesn't...Totally different....

Western Magpies and Balmain Tigers are gone....

You don't share their history.

It's gone.

The West Tigers have not won 16 premierships.

They have won 1.

So.... My opinion about your club doesn't count in your mind, but you expect fans of Wests Tigers to hold the viewpoint you do even though they can provide clear evidence to the contrary that you simply don't like?

Yet you want to call others hypocrites?

 

[unforgiven]

Oh yeah a private school nuffie....

Say no more....If that's South Brisbane then you have a huge European Orthodox presence especially Greek.

I'm surprised they weren't watching netball.

Meanwhile most schools in Australia aren't full of immigrants and the rate would be more 1% at best.

In fact in over 20 years of teaching I could count the immigrants on one hand.

The school I teach at is 84% NESB

 

[Mr Spock!]

So.... My opinion about your club doesn't count in your mind, but you expect fans of Wests Tigers to hold the viewpoint you do even though they can provide clear evidence to the contrary that you simply don't like?

Yet you want to call others hypocrites?

Not sure what you're blabbering about.

I'm making the point that your argument is hypocritical.

You could come up with a better one...but you won't.

I accept your surrender.

 

[Mr Spock!]

The school I teach at is 84% NESB

Where's that?

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Not sure what you're blabbering about.

I'm making the point that your argument is hypocritical.

You could come up with a better one...but you won't.

I accept your surrender.

 

[unforgiven]

Where's that?

In Western Sydney

 

[Nealo 12]

Perhaps you could....

It could be called the book of snooze.....

Souths exist the same as Manchester United and Liverpool exist.

Unless you're saying that soccer clubs no longer exist when they change owners.

It's really a stupid argument.

But I know it's all you got because you sold out your club and it no longer exists.

No it doesn't...Totally different....

Western Magpies and Balmain Tigers are gone....

You don't share their history.

It's gone.

The West Tigers have not won 16 premierships.

They have won 1.

Do accept that the game evolved and changed and that your clubs earlier success was a result of a lack of competition due to limited clubs available and once the competition expanded your club ... well become a bit of a you know lesser thing to put it kindly.

 

[Zoe Palmer]

Agree, I think their potential is in the fact they arent married to just one catchment area with less than 500k people in it. Whilst their nomadic existence isnt great at the mment it does mean they are in effect potentially popular with a lot of central, western and SW Sydney. Get a decent central point stadium and a winning team and they will be up there with Eels as Sydney's biggest club imo. At the moment they seem a bit stuck though between what they once were and what they could be.

the MacArthur region will be booming over the next few decades. Any notion of still hanging around in inner Sydney is rubbish. Its obvious Campbelltown stadium should be the focus. What doing you mean by a “central point stadium”

MacArthur Magpies has a good ring to it

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Any news on the takeover bid of Wests Tigers?

It would be nice if whoever ran the joint changed its name to Western Sydney Tigers. Fans can call it "Wests" for short, but its logo and written name should be "Western Sydney Tigers". A whole generation has grown up never seeing Wests Magpies or Balmain Tigers play, so it's probably time to start calling them by a name that sounds more official and less ocker.

@Mr Spock! I respect your passion for Sydney, but it was inevitable that some clubs would fall by the wayside as the NSWRL became the ARL/NRL. There's no way you can have 12 teams in one city in a 16 team national competition. Not unless you want to limit the game's growth everywhere else, which is bad business and a recipe for disaster. Sport stopped being a community endeavor and became a business back in the 80s/90s, at least here in Australia. It happened much sooner overseas. If you want to see a community sports league then lobby the NSWRL to make the NSW Cup more localised. A good start would be to have former NSWRL teams that are not in the NRL compete alongside regional teams. So something like Balmain Tigers, Illawarra Steelers, Newtown Jets, North Sydney Bears, St George Dragons and Western Sydney Magpies. Add teams from Bathurst, Central Coast, Newcastle and maybe even have Tweed Heads Seagulls compete in it as North Coast Seagulls and put a team on the South Coast.

 

[Zoe Palmer]

No it doesn't...Totally different....

Western Magpies and Balmain Tigers are gone....

You don't share their history.

It's gone.

The West Tigers have not won 16 premierships.

They have won 1.

Got to agree, the South Sydney Rabbitohs are still the South Sydney Rabbitohs not the Sydney City Rabbitohs or South Sydney Crocodiles or Berries

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

the MacArthur region will be booming over the next few decades. Any notion of still hanging around in inner Sydney is rubbish. Its obvious Campbelltown stadium should be the focus. What doing you mean by a “central point stadium”

MacArthur Magpies has a good ring to it

Which brand has more support in Sydney. Magpies or Tigers?

I ask a neutral from Queensland unfamiliar with the Sydney landscape.

Macarthur Magpies has alliteration, but no one outside of Sydney knows where it is, which makes it hard to market to people across Australia, NZ and PNG. It doesn't surprise me that the most watched clubs in Australia are those that represent areas people are familiar with, such as Brisbane Broncos, Melbourne Storm, Sydney Roosters and South Sydney Rabbitohs. Parramatta Eels are the exception to the rule.

 

[Zoe Palmer]

Which brand has more support in Sydney. Magpies or Tigers?

I ask a neutral from Queensland unfamiliar with the Sydney landscape.

Macarthur Magpies has alliteration, but no one outside of Sydney knows where it is, which makes it hard to market to people across Australia, NZ and PNG. It doesn't surprise me that the most watched clubs in Australia are those that represent areas people are familiar with, such as Brisbane Broncos, Melbourne Storm, Sydney Roosters and South Sydney Rabbitohs. Parramatta Eels are the exception to the rule.

They will soon know where it is as it basically starts where the new international & domestic airport is and heads down past Campbelltown
I believe it’s currently the fastest growing area of NSW and will be for decades

 

[Zoe Palmer]

They will soon know where it is as it basically starts where the new international & domestic airport is and heads down past Campbelltown
I believe it’s currently the fastest growing area of NSW and will be for decades

Further to that it currently stands at a population of 300,000
In 2017 It was about 160,000
Projected to be 600,000 by 2036

 

[flippikat]

1988 saw the Brisbane Broncos (the cream of the BRL) not finish in the finals.....

The cream of the BRL minus the great players that had already been plucked out of it. (For example Canberra getting a few choice signings that bolstered their stocks dramatically in the mid 80s, setting them up for a turn-of-the-decade dynasty)

 

[Tiger5150]

Yeah they did.

And as we saw something was really nothing.

It was a f**ked up union which everyone hated.

Oh and...Cronulla, West Tigers, the Warriors and the Gold Coast have had far worse debts than the Bears.

Once again, other clubs fans can go f**ked.

Cool story bro..........Wests Tigers have no debt.

Balmain had a debt to NRL but Wests Ashfield paid it out.

The rest of your story is probably as untrue as the Tigers part, but the only part you need to understand is....it doesnt matter how much debt Cronulla, Warriors or GC had.....if they can service the debt and pay it back, everyone is happy. Norths couldnt and went broke. See how it works:

There have been other clubs (see if you can work out which) that had such massive debt and such little revenue that they were going the same way as Norths until two fairy godfathers bought them. West Tigers, Cronulla, Warriors & GC didnt need that.

Tell us another story.

 

[Tiger5150]

No it doesn't...Totally different....

Western Magpies and Balmain Tigers are gone....

You don't share their history.

It's gone.

The West Tigers have not won 16 premierships.

They have won 1.

SSDRLFC have won 19 premierships