Yes, if you are going to call them by club name and mascot we are the Wests Tigers Tigers, like St George Illawarra Dragons, Melbourne Storm (not sure why so many on social media refer to them as Melbourne Storms 🤔), Penrith Panthers and so on.
Yes they were, the Ashfield - Burwood area was predominantly orchards and as players in the early days had be local many of them were fruit pickers, so hence the name.
The Balmain colours came about not from a tiger (garden variety tigers are actually black, orange and white) but from a variety...
Wests and St George were two of the first to adopt unofficial mascots/nicknames in the late 1920's early 1930's, Wests adopted the Magpies and St George were the Blood and Bandages before later adopting the Dragons as a mascot.
Official mascots were a gradual progressive thing over the years...
Someone has to say it....
Hymel Hunt is 30 years old and managed just 5 NRL appearances in 2 years, there is a reason he hasn't had a NRL gig since round 4 2023.
I'm not sold on Olam at 30 but Hunt is many levels below where Olam is at and pretty much below anyone we currently have on the...
Did some family history over the past 10 years or so, children out of wedlock was much more common than you would imagine, it just wasn't talked about.