I totally concur with Matt on this .
It's so much more interesting having another team in Sydney .
Sheeds did an excellent job helping to lay the foundation for such an optimistic vision to bring the game into western Sydney .
TBH I don't know what's not to like about it. I mean there's 10 teams in Melbourne .
I'm an avid Swans supporter too and I'm enjoying the Giants growth and development.
It will do good things for AFL in Sydney.
Go Swans ... By 40.
Really? Do you really believe that?
He came up here and basically insulted everybody and thought that because he was Kevin Sheedy that would be enough.
Like, what if we parachuted Phil Gould down into Melbourne as the NRL Ambassador to win over the heathens.
Nothing typifies the arrogance of the AFL and their naivety more than that appointment. I don't remember the exact stats but barely anyone in the real West of Sydney (Cabarita doesn't qualify) even recognised a photo of his arrogant mug and few actually cared.
Yeah, they'll sell out this weekend because we'll be there but the silly talk now is that because they have a decent team they have succeeded. Blind Freddy could see they would get a decent team with all their draft picks, in fact if they don't win at LEAST four flags in the next 10 years then they will have under-achieved.
The arrogance and lack of engagement with the local community, and front square and centre in this is their total disregard for the local AFL Community in Western Sydney (cue sponsoring Manly) is something they had one shot at and with an egomaniac like Sheedy at the helm they never thought it was important, how could they when they had The Most Famous Man in Football as their Coach.
GWS will be AFL's Vietnam, mark my words. Their success will bring more problems than solutions. They will struggle to get more than 10,000 regularly in that little play pen of theirs (most either free of massively discounted) with its surreal and ignorant matchday experience where apparently you still need to offer a has been artist from the 80s or 90s for a day at the footy to be worthwhile.
The whole thing is a manufactured and fake experiment. Unlike the Gold Coast, who actually busted a gut for a team, nobody in Western Sydney ever asked for or wanted a team. We were told by the AFL we wanted one, the arrogance of it all is breathtaking. They'll never be close to profitable and their slow incline points to a 20 year acceptance test. I just cannot see the AFL, with Jellyback Gillon at the helm, having the stomach to pay the long game given the heat they'll attract. I expect them to be relocated to either Canberra or Tasmania within 10 years
I hear that the AFL has put the MCG statue of Kevin Bartlett on the back burner in order to fast track a statue of you at ANZ Stadium.
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A Jarrad McSomeone will be doing the commemoration. I believe they wanted a footballer with qualities that matched those of the venue.
Mug Punter had absolutely nailed it there.
And I wonder by how much we'll pump up their average attendance this year? It'll be an overwhelmingly Swans crowd out there on Sunday yet the AFL will point to that as a sign of success for GWS.
At the time that South were moved to Sydney the Vic government didn't allow broadcast of VFL on Sundays. The Vics were so desperate to watch Sunday footy on TV, Channel 2 used to broadcast the old VFA.
The solution, move South to Sydney play their games on Sunday and bingo you have VFL on TV on Sunday.
Even back then TV requirements were determining the footy schedule.
Yes, they'll sell out this week (I can see them rubbing their hands together).
Next game, they'll be back to a crowd of 2,000.
Anyone who has a mild interest in the AFL in Sydney, is a Swans supporter - whether they go to the game or whether they watch it on TV.
I can't wait until they piss GWS off to Canberra or Tasmania.
There's only one team in Sydney.
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Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.
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