hahaha. So your trying to make me believe that GWS approached Manly Wolves AFC so that they could use Manly beach? Do they not know that they should have approached the Sea Eagles as well just to run it past them that it was ok to use the public beach.
I'm extremely confident in my source. But so are you so we will agree to disagree.
Regardless, good luck to both Manly & the Giants. Hopefully it works out to be a positive partnership
It's a fact that the Giants are in damage control over this. They're probably leaking that Manly approached them to their muppets, which they didn't, but it makes it sound a little bit more respectable, which it isn't.
Agree to disagree Tim we will as my source is involved on the board at manly .... They want a supporter base on the beaches and see this as the approach in doing so ... The partnership is to get the giants name in an area outside of the west .... If manly approached gws do you think they would still keep there colours ? As I'm sure if it was on 100 percent gws terms they would want the orange present amongst the beaches
It wasn't really kept a secret last Wednesday around the sammiches at HQ. Manly's representative, who is well known around the traps, told myself and a few others that GWS approached them. I asked him again and he confirmed that manly were indeed approached.
article was wrong too, many will play in their colours...
Well we can all rest easy now that MrTaxman has taken this up at board level and resolved this on our behalf. Peace in our time due to his amazing arbitration skills. Perhaps one of the more self important posts ever seen on this board.
This is a dumb decision by Manly.
As for the impact on the Bogans, NO-ONE cares!!!! they are a club with no supporters and no soul, they are a TV club that no-one asked for and no-one will miss when they move down tro Canberra in 3-4 years...
I must be one of the "No-Ones" you refer to - around 12000 other "No-Ones" signed up as well...... Might be a few less after this debacle sadly though..... GWS going no where, its the other Mob that are more likely to go bust when Buddy blows that knee out shortly .....
Carn the Southern Power.....
At least they were good enough to "ask" this time ... Not like the rape and pillage of Bankstown ... and that's working out well I see, bringing all of the promised benefits to the kids in the largest Local Government area in Sydney! ... if you go to the AFL website, and you live in Padstow, Revesby or Panania, and you want to sign up for Auskick, they direct you to a 1 hour afternoon clinic on Tuesdays at the local school!
Kelso gets one of it's limited AFL gigs this weekend I notice, but no kids will play there in the foreseeable future, and as for selling GWS Memberships there .
The NRL, soccer and Rugby must be rubbing their hands together down Brookvale way right now ...
This thread has obviously has been one of the most popular in a number of years, but I have to say why so many hateful and negative comments. My views / comments are
1. Stupid decision by Manly. But as in the movie ?Indecent Proposal? everyone has a price. I just hope their price was high enough to be bent over and lose the respect of so many other Sydney AFL clubs
2. Not a Bad decision by GWS to expand their supporter base ? maybe in a couple of years they will become Sydney Giants. We have a lot of West Coast Eagles supporters in Sydney. Don?t get hung up on geography.
3. Why the ?hate? for GWS? If you are on this thread you must love AFL, so how lucky are we to have 2 AFL teams in Sydney ? that is a local game of AFL every week ? the same as Adelaide and Perth!
4. Who cares how many members GWS has? Why is it an issue for people in Sydney, maybe the southern states; we benefit.
5. I see no benefit for a team in Canberra (not enough people) or while I am at it Tassie (they are more mad about AFL than Victorians so no real benefit).
6. Don?t blame GWS or even the Swans for game development. That?s the NSW AFL or AFL headquarters role.
7. Finally, I agree with the comment that what were the AFL thinking with the Colours Orange and Charcoal.
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