Congrats to Matty B.

[manlyfan76]

Named vice Captain of the Tigers.
Well done Mat.

 

[Killer03]

Great news! Well done Matty.

 

[wombatgc]

Taylor's at least got one thing right.

 

[nightster]

can only wish you all the best ... personally, not your team ... miss you in our team

 

[Dan]

Always been captain material and wish he was still a sea eagle

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Mat Balin. Is that like Matt Ballin?
Can we at least pay our erstwhile great the courtesy of spelling his name correctly?

 

[Woodsie]

Mat Balin. Is that like Matt Ballin?
Can we at least pay our erstwhile great the courtesy of spelling his name correctly?

Matt Ballin's correct name is Matthew, Mat is simply the abv form of his abv form of Matt.

The fact that Matthew is of Hebrew origin, (meaning gift of YAHWEH) means that the traditional Arabiac rules of truncation apply, which as you well know forbids the use of repeated consonants following a vowel.

 

[pjayz]

Matt Ballin's correct name is Matthew, Mat is simply the abv form of his abv form of Matt.

The fact that Matthew is of Hebrew origin, (meaning gift of YAHWEH) means that the traditional Arabiac rules of truncation apply, which as you well know forbids the use of repeated consonants following a vowel.

My middle name is Mathew - one 't', so Mat would be correct in this context. Having said that, it's a middle name, so who would ever abbreviate it? Kinda pointless me pointing out this point.

Sooo vice captain hey....

 

[Wombat Legacy]

A ****, who gives yoda

 

[manlyfan76]

Ballin Name Meaning
German and Danish: habitational name for someone from a place so named near Neubrandenburg; the -in ending suggests Slavic origin. French: metonymic occupational name for a maker of straw mattresses, Old French ballin. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Balin. Asturian-Leonese: habitational name from any of the places in Asturies named Vallín, from a diminutive of valle ‘valley’.

This interesting and unusual surname, with variant spellings Baleine, Balleine, Baline and Ballin, has two possible origins. Firstly, it may be of Scottish locational origin from Bellenden, in the parish of Robertson, in the former county of Roxburghshire, and also a place in the former county of Selkirk, from the Gaelic "baile an deadhain", meaning "the farmstead of the dean". The name may also derive from the French name "baleine", a whale, possibly a nickname for a person of rather large appearance. The personal name "Baloun" was recorded in the Hundred Rolls of Leicestershire in 1273, and Alan Balun was recorded in Northamptonshire also in the 1273 Hundred Rolls. In Scotland the earliest recording of the name is that of Sir Alexander Ballindin, who was chaplain and prebendowy of the Collegiate Church of Methven in 1563. The earliest recording of the name in Cambridgeshire is that of Anne Baline (a dialectal variant), who was christened at Meldreth on May 11th 1635. Evidence of the French connection if found in London when one Firmain Ballain, a French Huguenot, had a son christened at Threadneedle Street, London, on September 10th 1721. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John le Balun, which was dated 1273, in the "Hundred Rolls of Hertfordshire", during the reign of King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of The Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

 

[EagleFlys]

Regardless of the crap hijack ****. Couldn't have happened to a better ex Manly player.

Well done Matty.

 

[MadMarcus]

The fact that Matthew is of Hebrew origin, (meaning gift of YAHWEH) means that the traditional Arabiac rules of truncation apply, which as you well know forbids the use of repeated consonants following a vowel.

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Freagle]

Deserves standing ovation if he ever runs out against us at Brooky.

 

[Freagle]

Ditto for Buhrer.

 

[globaleagle]

Ditto for Buhrer.

That may be "Dito" for Buhrer, right @Woodsie ????

But yes, well done Matt.

 

[manlyfan76]

Mat is looking to extend his career.
"

“The first one was a cadaver, so a donor Achilles tendon. It’s a bit of a newer operation.
Sometimes these surgeries work and sometimes they don’t. Last time we did everything possible to give the knee the best chance to heal, but it just didn’t heal,” Ballin said."

Read the article at WWW.foxsports.com

Hooker Matt Ballin on track for Wests Tigers NRL comeback in 2017

 

[Woodsie]

Best wishes Matty B.

 

[Bearfax]

All this has left me exhausted on the matt and consequently I'm ballin out of any further discussion on this topic

 

[MANLY4LIFE]

Well done to Mathew Matt mat Mathias and matteo