Gws

[Grady1993]

Greenway Park Estate, West Hoxton. (Holsworthy Tigers home grounds). Gee I wish I still had those photos

Oh ha ha I've played there, quite like the ground but it can flood easily :/

[tara]

Oh ha ha I've played there, quite like the ground but it can flood easily :/

I never heard about that but then again Liverpool Council also erected (correctly) goal posts on an oval near the cross roads at Liverpool on a ground that was never meant to get them - didnt stop us utilising it during the preseason.

[Doormat]

Come on pk.
It was a gee up asking you personally to help GWSWe all know you too busy running SAFL.

What gave it away was when you said"and GWS believed I could sell them to mates, footy friends etc", Everyone knows you have no mates or footy friends.

Hahaha, damn I've seen worse than that in my time living out here. If it makes them feel better, let them eat cake I say.

As for Team GWS not working, you must understand, that GWS aren't out to convert the rugby fans, they have it ingrained into them, much the same as our brethren down south are indoctrinated with rules. If GWS want to succeed, they need to stop with this Homebush and GWS4ACT rubbish, and focus on gathering local area fans.

I recieved an email asking to 'sell $50 token memberships" for GWS, and believed I could sell them to mates, footy friends etc, as we are all interested in GWS, imagine my frustration when the parcel arrives, asking me to 'sell memberships for support of games in ACT' I promptly returned the book with an email stating that this approach will only serve to frustrate those wishing to back GWS.

Until they stop treating the people of the west with contempt, it will fail.

[Pekay]

Come on pk.
It was a gee up asking you personally to help GWSWe all know you too busy running SAFL.

What gave it away was when you said"and GWS believed I could sell them to mates, footy friends etc", Everyone knows you have no mates or footy friends.

[Adelaide Swan]

Why was Falou signed? not because of his skills, because he's a drawcard with young rugby league fans.

The AFL hierarchy spat in the face of all league fans by signing their best player. They could easily have set up their GWS club with out picking fights.
The whole Falou case stinks of arrogance and was totally unnecessary. League fans won?t flock to see AFL because we signed Falou, but they will despise and hate us even more.
As the picture evidently shows..

I am a league fan as well as being a passionate Swans fan and I think it's crazy to suggest Israel Folau is/was rugby league's best player.

Yes he is a good league player but I honestly believe Greg Inglis and Billy Slater(as much as I hate to admit it being a proud New South Welshman) are league's best players.

Not all league fans despise football, in fact as a supporter of both codes, I am proud to say I support both codes.

The thing that concerns me is there aren't enough AFL players/fans in Sydney to support two teams.

Most people I know from the west who follow AFL a bit support us.

In general most fans in NSW support us really.

The only people who will give a @@@@ about GWS are expats from the southern states who aren't Swans supporters.

[Sometimes]

One thing people seem to overlook is the fact that not everyone in Western Sydney is a rugby league fan. Sure, a few rugby league fans might vandalise some goal posts, but 1.8 million people live in Western Sydney. 1% of that number get interested and you've got 18,000 at a game.

[Adelaide Swan]

One thing people seem to overlook is the fact that not everyone in Western Sydney is a rugby league fan. Sure, a few rugby league fans might vandalise some goal posts, but 1.8 million people live in Western Sydney. 1% of that number get interested and you've got 18,000 at a game.

You've also got rugby union out there as well, mate.

The northwest in particular is a very welded on rugby area.

A lot of the Hills District is very union orientated and a lot of the schools out there are heartlands of union.

Don't forget that soccer is king in GWS territory with the Blacktown City Demons being one of the biggest junior soccer clubs in Australia.

[Pekay]

You've also got rugby union out there as well, mate.

The northwest in particular is a very welded on rugby area.

A lot of the Hills District is very union orientated and a lot of the schools out there are heartlands of union.

Don't forget that soccer is king in GWS territory with the Blacktown City Demons being one of the biggest junior soccer clubs in Australia.

Yeah, they bullied my junior club off our grounds. Although, a few more years at Lalor Park and they would've dissipated.

[Adelaide Swan]

[QUOTE=Pekay;505734]

You've also got rugby union out there as well, mate.

The northwest in particular is a very welded on rugby area.

A lot of the Hills District is very union orientated and a lot of the schools out there are heartlands of union.

Don't forget that soccer is king in GWS territory with the Blacktown City Demons being one of the biggest junior soccer clubs in Australia.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, they bullied my junior club off our grounds, pricks. Although, a few more years at Lalor Park and they would've dissipated.

Why would City have bullied your club off your ground?

Last time I checked City play their matches at Lily Homes Stadium(Gabbie Stadium) in Seven Hills.

Very strange.

[Grady1993]

Soccer is big near backtown, but not where I live. Just a two minute walk from my house, is the biggest junior Rugby League club in the city and that makes it hardfor AFL. Before I saw the light and left St. Clair JAFC we used to share an AFL ground with five or so St. Clair Rugby League teams plus our six teams, it made it impossible to train.

[Sometimes]

Yep, I live and grew up in the northwest (played soccer first, then aussie rules, went to school and go to uni in the area), I think just by the sheer weight of numbers and varying demographics there's a market here for an AFL team.

[Adelaide Swan]

Yep, I live and grew up in the northwest (played soccer first, then aussie rules, went to school and go to uni in the area), I think just by the sheer weight of numbers and varying demographics there's a market here for an AFL team.

There is a market for an AFL team and they're called the Swans, mate.

Tbh, the AFL should've done all it can to expand our supporter base instead of marginalising it.

Now people who convert to AFL would go to GWS instead of coming to us.

I see a basketball style situation here.

The Sydney Kings were THE basketball team in Sydney at the time(and still are) but the NBL shot themselves in the foot by introducing the West Sydney Razorbacks into the competition which split the Sydney basketball community in half.

When the Kings were destroyed by that certain conman the Razorbacks then pissed everyone off who were still angry at the Kings demise by changing their name to the Spirit which ultimately led to their demise as well.

The fact is football is very much a minority sport in Sydney and all I see GWS doing is marginalising the football community in half.

The other thing worth noting is that AFL has a serious image problem amongst people in the Western Sydney area.

When Kevin Sheedy claimed he had never heard of Parramatta Eels legend Nathan Hindmarsh that pretty much pissed off a fair chunk of the supporters he was trying to reach out to.

Andrew Demetriou is also hated by those said supporters who view him as an arrogant @@@@@ hellbent on destroying league into the ground.

Plus he even put soccer fans offside with his grandstanding over Australia's FIFA World Cup bid as well.

[Sometimes]

Preaching to the converted here, I'm a Swans fan, and have been for 15 (of my 20) years - after coming from no AFL background at all. But will I buy a GWS membership and go to a game every second week at Homebush instead of trekking it in to the SCG? Hell yeah I will.

And on the Kings - back in business! Let's hope this management team is a little more sound than those of the past.

[Grady1993]

...will I buy a GWS membership...

I think a lot of people who live in Western Sydney who like AFL will go to more GWS games at Homebush than Swans games at the SCG. It's just so god dam annoying to get too, atleast with Homebush, you can get a train practically to the stadium entry, much more accessable from the West.

[Sometimes]

I think a lot of people who live in Western Sydney who like AFL will go to more GWS games at Homebush than Swans games at the SCG. It's just so god dam annoying to get too, atleast with Homebush, you can get a train practically to the stadium entry, much more accessable from the West.

Yep, from out my way, just jump on a free bus full of footy fans on the T-way and you're there in no time. There was some criticism of them playing at Homebush as it isn't in the middle of GWS, but the infrastructure is impossible to ignore.