I was just looking through the old newsgroups of footy posts and found this gem I wrote back in 1993:
It's about time the AFL gave up in Sydney, it's just a money pit. And Sydney
obviuosly is not ready for an AFL team. They should move the Swans to Canberra,
give them a completely new name to distance themselves from "Sydney Swans" which
noone would want to support anyway. It would also put them closer to the riverina
region of southern NSW which is a very strong Aussie rules Zone. AFL has a much
better chance of success in Camberra than Sydney, even with Canberra's much smaller
population. Sydney people are just dickheads who dont follow football, of any sort.
I suggest the "new" Swans be called the Canberra Capitalists
or the Canberra Communists ???
And get a decent guernsey as well, maybe something in green??
Here I am now, living in Sydney, supporting the swans, and the city has adopted them as one of its own, and Canberra is still not able to support a full time AFL side.
D'Oh!
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