Perhaps its because they consistently raid the playing and coaching ranks of neighbouring clubs with promises of them joining the promised land, only to continue to seriously under achieve. A year or two ago, they posted a 100K profit. Imagine what Uni could achieve with that sort of profit...................
I think no9 countered your claims of how Wests use their profits and your perceived raiding of other clubs, and its obvious that Wests have been more victim than perpetrator over the years. In my time I remember players of the likes of Laurie Monaghan (Gordon), Mick Ellem (Manly), Tony Daly (Randwick), Mick Foley (QLD), Bill Young (Eastwood) and many other first grade players enticed away from Concord for reasons best known to themselves. Good luck to all of them and while it didn't help the cause of winning a premiiership the Wests club just went about its business and put out competetive teams each winter weekend.
Why should they apologise for this? They are making a profit and are developing competetive colts teams that will hopefully reap some rewards if they are not enticed away (as noted in earlier posts) at a time when other clubs are making large losses and living well outside their means .
If success is based purely around Shute Shield premierships then I would suggest every club other than Uni and Eastwood should be being criticised on here as its been at least 20 years since celebrations for many clubs. I think it's been well documented why Uni and Eastwood have been the standouts over the last decade and until the SRU grows some balls and puts in place a policy to prevent the stockpiling of talent amongst the lucky few then all clubs will continue to suffer.
Over the years Wests have also had a high proportion of polynesian players who are fairly transient by nature who will change club if they change address and can be keen to turn a dollar out of their talents (as they are entitled to do) which can lead to player turnover. These aren't excuses, just reasons that exist within the Wests club (but not exclusive to) that those looking from the outside pass judgement on without knowing the intracacies of the club.
Ouside of this I just assume you, Tahboy and Keithy had the shit kicked out of you by a Wests team in your past and are hanging on to that grudge with a vengeance.
