Fair enough, it's not as if the Wests Tigers represent Sydney. Perhaps they'll get a ticker tape parade in Campbelltown.Daily Telegraph wrote:Parade snub
By DAVID FISHER, GEMMA JONES and KARINA DUNGER
October 04, 2005
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/s ... 22,00.html
WESTS Tigers fans will be denied the opportunity to cheer their heroes in a ticker tape parade – despite Swans supporters getting that chance days after their team's Grand Final victory.
A spokesman for Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the team had been offered a "private victory reception" at Town Hall.
He said there had been no discussion of a parade because that would set a precedent that would be difficult to maintain.
"Every second year we would have to have one for a Sydney team and we'd have to do it for basketballers, cricketers and netballers," he said.
The spokesman said the Swans were given a city parade because their victory was an "historical, one-off first" where a Sydney team had won the AFL grand final.
NRL chief executive David Gallop said it was important Wests Tigers fans got an appropriate opportunity to celebrate the victory.
"Wests Tigers fans deserve to share in the glory of winning the premiership," Mr Gallop said yesterday.
"They have shown they know how to party."
Fans basking in the glory of victory were in no doubt yesterday. Lifelong supporter Nita LoSurdo said after 50 years behind the team it could be her only chance to enjoy the spoils of victory.
"Of course there should be a parade, it might be another 30 years before we win another grand final. I might not live to see the next one."
It seems Clover Moore got the message loud and clear when she said the Wests Tigers would get a special event like the Swans during the ticker tape parade. The crowd booed her and rightly so.
