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  • cruiser
    What the frack!
    • Jul 2004
    • 6114

    #16
    Originally posted by footyhead
    Then again Westen Sydney bullgogs does sound pretty good.
    I'd buy a season ticket.
    I hate the Bulldogs, both AFL and NRL, so it'd give me a Sydney based AFL team to love to hate. Maybe even more so knowing that it attracts supporters like Boofyhead.
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    • footyhead
      Banned indefinitely by Moderators for posting totally inappropriate material
      • May 2003
      • 1367

      #17
      [i]

      How does that sound?


      [/B]
      Sounds like committment to me. And when you think about it, thats exactly why We cannot win the War on terrorisim.
      just like the citizens of the late Roman empire, we have become dependant on an army of lower class mercinaries, who have little committment compared to the enemy.
      Maybe that is way so many Swans supporters are afraid of a second Sydney team, because they know that if a second team really developed some committed supporters, they would show the majority of swans supporters up for what they really are.

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      • footyhead
        Banned indefinitely by Moderators for posting totally inappropriate material
        • May 2003
        • 1367

        #18
        Originally posted by cruiser
        I hate the Bulldogs, both AFL and NRL, so it'd give me a Sydney based AFL team to love to hate. Maybe even more so knowing that it attracts supporters like Boofyhead.

        NOW YOUR TALKING !!!
        Thats is exactly why it will work !

        Footy = love and hate !

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        • cruiser
          What the frack!
          • Jul 2004
          • 6114

          #19
          Originally posted by footyhead
          Sounds like committment to me. And when you think about it, thats exactly why We cannot win the War on terrorisim.
          just like the citizens of the late Roman empire, we have become dependant on an army of lower class mercinaries, who have little committment compared to the enemy.
          Maybe that is way so many Swans supporters are afraid of a second Sydney team, because they know that if a second team really developed some committed supporters, they would show the majority of swans supporters up for what they really are.
          What are you on boofyhead?
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          • Beaussie
            On the Rookie List
            • Mar 2003
            • 328

            #20
            Originally posted by cruiser
            I hate the Bulldogs, both AFL and NRL, so it'd give me a Sydney based AFL team to love to hate.
            That is exactly why a second team in Sydney is needed. We need to develop such a rivalry in NSW. Besides the Swans can't be expected to do all the development work in NSW.

            Can you imagine how big the crowds would be for the cross town games at Telstra Stadium? The atmosphere would be fantastic.

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            • footyhead
              Banned indefinitely by Moderators for posting totally inappropriate material
              • May 2003
              • 1367

              #21
              Originally posted by Beaussie
              That is exactly why a second team in Sydney is needed. We need to develop such a rivalry in NSW. Besides the Swans can't be expected to do all the development work in NSW.

              Can you imagine how big the crowds would be for the cross town games at Telstra Stadium? The atmosphere would be fantastic.
              All this true, but it would probably take btween 10 - 20 years to acheive this.
              A time committment well worth the AFL taking I think.

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              • footyhead
                Banned indefinitely by Moderators for posting totally inappropriate material
                • May 2003
                • 1367

                #22
                Originally posted by cruiser
                What are you on boofyhead?
                All is war don't you know that ??
                Oh... except humour. Dark or other wise.

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                • andy0414
                  Pushing for Selection
                  • Nov 2004
                  • 71

                  #23
                  Great! The West Sydney Westies playing in flannelette shirts!!!
                  Where's the remote?

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                  • Country Member
                    On the Rookie List
                    • May 2004
                    • 52

                    #24
                    Anyone who thinks a second team will help with GAME development (as oppossed to promotion of the national COMPETITION) does not really understand the core purpose of a footy club. Whilst all clubs have a fundamental commitment to the well-being and sustainability of our great game, the core purpose IS TO WIN THE PREMIERSHIP, which is hard enough without being responsible for conducting 500 clinics a week. People do not realise how far behind AFL is in NSW interms of juniors and schools. We are blinded by AUSkick numbers and occassional bursts of success/crowds by the Swans.

                    Game development is the responsibility of the AFL and it cannot be achieved in this market without establishing effective development and elite young athlete identification programs in NSW, particular Sydney. The best way to do this is by creating a pathway to the Swans and making them responsible for development . This is th eincentive to make it work because, despite all the Sheedy and McGuire talk, the other clubs and AFL in general just do not rate in Sydney. The "AFL" brand in Sydney is not working and the school infrastructure is a joke. Young boys and girls playing Auskick is healthy but irrelevant to getting the cream of the crop as Rugby, League and Soccer NOW do.

                    Footyhead - love your passion etc but if you want to spread the gospel, join a church or start running clinics.

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                    • The Undertaker
                      On the Rookie List
                      • Oct 2004
                      • 517

                      #25
                      Three or four home games each year at Telstra Stadium is enough.I really couldn't give a **** about the event watchers here in this town but i can understand if you are a swans supporter from Sydney's west then getting too and watching a game at TS is much easier for you.

                      I feel the SCG should and always be our main home ground.

                      As for another Sydney team,as a swans supporter i do want the Swans to be the only team in Sydney but i do see a team coming from Western Sydney as a viable option and a way of really developing the code of Aussie Rules right throughout Sydney.I fee it will happen sometime in the future,dont know when but it will.
                      Well done Craig Bolton for getting the co- captaincy in 2008.

                      Your determination,your tenacity and your under-rated skill is why you have become my favourite player!

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                      • benny_w
                        On the Rookie List
                        • Jul 2004
                        • 142

                        #26
                        You all think that it will take 10-20 years to get a second team in sydney. I think sooner. 5-10 years to get a team in WS set up. Not out of Telstra but maybe out of Howell Oval at Penrith or Olympic park at Blacktown

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                        • ROK Lobster
                          RWO Life Member
                          • Aug 2004
                          • 8658

                          #27
                          Originally posted by benny_w
                          You all think that it will take 10-20 years to get a second team in sydney. I think sooner. 5-10 years to get a team in WS set up. Not out of Telstra but maybe out of Howell Oval at Penrith or Olympic park at Blacktown
                          I haven't been to Howell oval for years BW. How much work would it need to get it up to AFL standards. Last time I was there the field was hard as concrete and there was seating for about 12.
                          Last edited by ROK Lobster; 18 February 2005, 07:53 PM.

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                          • peterh_oz
                            On the Rookie List
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 302

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Mike_B
                            A good barometer (at least initially) will be if next year's Ess-Coll ANZAC day game does get played at TS (there has been talk of it as the MCG won't be ready post-Comm games). If the game does get played at TS, the crowd that the game draws could give a really strong indicator as to whether Sydney is starting to embrace AFL, or still very much Swans-centric.
                            Quoting the crown numbers is misleading. An analysis must be done to see where the crowd comes from - if there's a 72,000 sell-out and 60,000 of them travel up from Vic & Wagga then Sydney is NOT ready. Its equivalent to saying Melbourne people love League just because an NRL SOO game got 90,000 @ the G - 70,000 of them travelled from NSW and 15,000 others were bored would never go back, That leaves 5,000 Vics who enjoyed it which equates to the home support for the Storm.
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                            • peterh_oz
                              On the Rookie List
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 302

                              #29
                              Originally posted by andy0414
                              Great! The West Sydney Westies playing in flannelette shirts!!!
                              WOOOO-HOOOOOOO

                              Wonder if Michelle would swap eh Jules?
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                              • Big Al
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                                • Feb 2005
                                • 7007

                                #30
                                [QUOTE]Originally posted by footyhead
                                We need another Elite team from the west of Sydney playing there every second week, so that there is a game of Aussie rules on in Sydney every week in the winter

                                I have lived in Sydney all my life and while the city has embraced the swans they still not have embraced AFL. While a Essendon-Collingwood match would indeed draw a big crowd it is because its a one off event. Week in week out footy will not be supprted just yet. The TV ratings for non Swans games in sydney are abysmal. While I applaud the efforts of the AFL to open up western sydney to AFL we are many years away from a second team. Maybe when the swans win their third flag in a row the city may be ready.
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