Manly Wolves Now in Giants Clothing

[unconfuseme]

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 ...

[Tom Wills]

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.

[cartman48]

10,000*

Aren't over half from ACT and melbourne?

10000 Swans members are old South Melbourne fans? Why does it matter where they live? And 10721 at last count.... (12000+ last year)

[dimelb]

10000 Swans members are old South Melbourne fans? Why does it matter where they live? And 10721 at last count.... (12000+ last year)

It matters for the Swans. Melbourne is a home away from home, with appropriate advantages.

[cartman48]

found a video with "No one" caring about the Giants a few weeks back....

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