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  • ScottH
    It's Goodes to cheer!!
    • Sep 2003
    • 23665
    #1

    No new Sydney team before 2015:Colless

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    THE AFL would be unwise to introduce a second Sydney-based AFL team before 2015, according to the Swans' chairman, Richard Colless
    "I think it would be unbelievably ambitious to be contemplating a team much before 2015," Colless, chairman of the Swans since 1994 and former head of AFL NSW, said last night.

    "It's not just getting a competitive team together and the right administration in place, it's actually convincing a significantly disinterested marketplace as to why they should be supporting AFL and why they should be supporting West Sydney.
    Don't hold your breath.
    Tags: 2015colless, Swans, sydney, team
    • ugg
      Can you feel it?
      Site Admin
      • Jan 2003
      • 15980
      #2
      Does that make our premiership null and void?
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        • NMWBloods
          Taking Refuge!!
          • Jan 2003
          • 15819
          #3
          Originally posted by ugg
          Does that make our premiership null and void?
          Fixed now!
          Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

          "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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            • goswannie14
              Leadership Group
              • Sep 2005
              • 11166
              #4
              Would we really expect Colless to say anything different to that?
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                • swantastic
                  Veterans List
                  • Jan 2006
                  • 7275
                  #5
                  Originally posted by goswannie14
                  Would we really expect Colless to say anything different to that?
                  Nope,but he's right on the money any way.

                  If the Swans had 55000+ members then i think it would be worth while for the AFL for a second team.With a break down of 35000+ in Sydney and the other 20000+ scattered around the country.
                  Now this is a thread that i would expect on the ego -centric, wank session that is redandwhiteonline.com...

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                    • Pommie Swannie
                      Waiting for the call!
                      • Sep 2005
                      • 375
                      #6
                      Originally posted by swantastic
                      Nope,but he's right on the money any way.

                      If the Swans had 55000+ members then i think it would be worth while for the AFL for a second team.With a break down of 35000+ in Sydney and the other 20000+ scattered around the country.

                      Spot-on. The AFL need to be VERY careful with their plans for expansion in NSW. They risk diluting a finite amount of AFL fans (ignoring those that would never swithch) between 2 teams, based on geography.
                      Far better to have one strong, financially viable team than 2 struggling ones continually being propped up from the AFL's coffers.

                      Still, I would love to have the local rivalry of a second Sydney team - IF it is viable.
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                        • j s
                          Think positive!
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 3303
                          #7
                          With a team planned for the Gold Coast from 2010 I don't think even the AFL would be keen on trying to simultaneously get a 2nd team going in Sydney.

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                            • top40
                              Regular in the Side
                              • May 2007
                              • 933
                              #8
                              Iv'e said this on another post, but I'm happy to say it again in slightly different words:

                              The Sydney AFL market is very vulnerable.

                              The AFL must not forget that the Swans have been very consistent since the mid 1990's. Not once in 13 seasons since 1995 have the Sydney's percentage fallen below 100 at the end of a given season's. Further, the Swans have participated in 10 finals in the past 12 years. So give us a really bad year, (I hope never, but let's be realistic here), and the Sydney market for the Swans gets really shaky.

                              Relevant to the issue of a second team in Sydney, unlike in 1992, I believe that the Swans as a club is now strong enough to withhold a few really bad on ground seasons. But under such a scenario the city simply cannot support two teams.

                              Sydney will be able to have two teams when:

                              1. AFL virtually matches Rugby League for sport news stories in the Sydney Morning Herald and in particular the Daily Telegraph

                              2. The number of registered AFL junior players in Sydney at least triple. I live in the Sutherland Shire. Just in the Shire alone we have over 10,000 registered junior soccer players. Yet in 2007 for the combined Shire, St George area, Bankstown and the Illawarra, (for older juniors), (that is "Southern Sydney"), the number of registered junior AFL players reached a record number of just 900 in number.

                              3. There is more opportunity for boys aged 16 to 19. Unless you are good enough to play representative footy, once you turn 16 in Sydney your AFL career is over.

                              4. And a Sydney club must receive priority for Sydney metropolitan boys in the draft. Very talented boys aged in their mid teens that play AFL are not guaranteed to continue to play in their home town if the are good enough to advance to Senior AFL level. Often their talents are therefore inclined to drift to other football codes, rather than risk being drafted at age 18 interstate, and missing their family, local mates, girlfriends etc

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                                • RogueSwan
                                  McVeigh for Brownlow
                                  • Apr 2003
                                  • 4602
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by top40
                                  1. AFL virtually matches Rugby League for sport news stories in the Sydney Morning Herald and in particular the Daily Telegraph
                                  Ain't gonna happen as long as Newscorp owns both the Daily terror and a % of the NRL.
                                  "Fortunately, this is the internet, so knowing nothing is no obstacle to having an opinion!." Beerman 18-07-2017

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