Sharks fan here - went to this game, and was absolutely furious at the end! We got hammered. Watching it again now, Tigers were just incredible that year. Benji stepping shark after shark is burned into my eyes....
He may not have been the same player at the back end of his career but young Benji was a force of nature. There was only 1 player all the kids wanted to be in 2005. Benji Marshall put butts on seats wether you were a Tigers fan or not.
Bro are you trying to make West Tigers fans more depressed by reminding them of when they were good? XD Next you'll upload clips of Hazem El Maseri for us Bulldogs fans....sigh
Benji ripping up these teams in 05 is the equivalent of Ponga destroying the Storm, Roosters, Rabbits, Panther and Eels all in 1 year to win the premiership
They kept wests and used the nickname from balmain. Very smart decision Balmain in not the nursery of players it used to be. The merger had to (and still does) need to look to western (particularly south western) Sydney for the future. Basing in in balmain and being called the magpies would be a terrible decision. The only other way for them to keep the magpies name was for the club to just be called wests magpies which would have never been approved as it was a joint venture hoping to keep the identity of both great foundation clubs. Yes magpies are majority owners now but that was not the case at the creation on the joint venture. Fun fact: Parramatta floated the idea of a merger with balmain where they would have become the Parramatta Tigers but this porposal was more of a takeover than a joint venture
Tigers need to unmerge with the magpies because current tigers are disgraceful atleast you could respect the Balmain name even when they were at their worst and I am a raiders fan saying this respect 89
@@garybaltiejus7248 they did back in the day. Wests did not meet the requirements to play in 2000, Balmain did. Balmain could have played on without the joint venture but Wests could not. However Balmains financial situation got worse over the following years and now Wests own 90% of the Wests tigers. Balmain could not financially support a nrl club by themselves currently
