The onus MUST be on Wests Tigers fans as a whole

It's hard to believe that on a weekend where Wests Tigers scored their fourth win from six matches this season, on the same weekend where the club lost Robbie Farah to injury for six weeks, that neither of these points would be the most talked about issues for fans. However they most certainly are not.

Front and centre for the fans this weekend has been the flare up of the old Campbelltown vs Leichhardt debate! Yep. It's back! Just over a week ago, 16,000 fans turned up in pouring rain at Leichhardt to watch the Tigers beat Manly. 6 nights later just over 6000 fans turned up to see us beat the Cowboys in conditions far more comforting to fans who attended.

The approximate 10,000 gap in the crowd has left many Wests Tigers fans bitterly, bitterly disappointed. With good reason. The week in between the two fixtures saw a rather unusual postcode challenge occur on twitter as Campbelltown's #2560 hashtag went up against Leichhardt's #2040. The promotion was unique but great! It seemed to really unite Wests Tigers fans. There was a real sense of optimism that Saturday nights attendance would be able to match that of Leichhardt a week earlier. Sadly its flat lined. Worse than anyone could have predicted in my opinion.

Instead of pointing the finger at reasons to why this happened, i want to point the finger at Wests Tigers fans in general. How is it that we could draw two crowds so starkly different within a week of each other? I for one will not blame the "out of town opposition". I think that's a total cop out! Last time i checked. I attended the game to watch MY team. To support MY team. It doesn't who matter we play. You are there first and foremost to support YOUR team!

People will suggest that perhaps Campbelltown is out of the way of a significant proportion of our fan base, and i would love to know what percentage of our fan base/members actually live within the Macarthur region. Perhaps there are some telling stats here?? I don't know though. What i do know is that Saturday night was not good enough. We're all accountable here. We must embrace our football club.

I want to encourage all our fans, doesn't matter where you live, to get out and please make an effort to get out to games at all venues. Round 11 sees our next trip to Campbelltown Stadium for the 15 year anniversary match versus the Broncos. It's a Saturday night game kicking off at 7.30pm, just like the weekend's fixture. If we could all make a special effort to get out there for the game, that would be tremendous! I know we can do it!

Fans are the life of any football club. Without them, a club will never flourish. Without us fans, Wests Tigers will never flourish the way they could potentially. We can change that though! Lets make sure we do guys.