For me, I don't know what sort of emotional attachment I am going to develop with GWS. Could be love, could be hate. No doubt it will be made up of a whole range of objective and subjective factors and will no doubt swing from week to week and season to season.
Would I be unhappy if Sam, or any of our players left the Swans? Of course I'd be gutted. But if they want to go they can go.
That bears no relation to whether or not I choose to go to a non-Swans game. The money I'm putting into GWS is the same money I put into any team when we play away, or if I stroll along to Etihad or the MCG to watch a game when I'm in town. I feel no attachment or conflict other than the prospect of watching some live, and hopefully good, footy. As much as I love Foxtel it just isn't the same as being there.
I do have a strong attachment to the growth of the code in NSW so am happy to support GWS, and therefore the AFL.
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