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  • snajik
    Senior Player
    • Jan 2003
    • 1115

    #16
    I'm fairly certain the ABS relies upon the following statistical divisions for greater metropolitan Sydney with the Mountains as far as Lithgow falling under Outer Western Sydney. Not sure if a poll allows for this many categories having never created a poll myself. There are plenty of vagaries however and is always a difficult thing to neatly encapsulate. People who live in a particular region may identify with an adjoining region too.


    Metro Regions

    BL Blacktown
    CB Canterbury - Bankstown
    CNS Central Northern Sydney
    CWS Western Suburbs / Parramatta
    ES Eastern Suburbs
    FLV Fairfield - Liverpool
    GW Gosford - Wyong
    ISY Inner Sydney
    IWEST Inner Western Sydney
    LNS Lower Northern Sydney
    NB Northern Beaches
    OSWS Outer South Western Sydney
    OWS Outer Western Sydney
    SGS St George - Sutherland


    For the purposes of the poll I ended up identifying with where I live now (Blue Mountains) and intend to live until I die. I'm not sure that I have had a place that I'd call 'home' until now having lived in 30+ residences throughout my life, born in Sydney, grew up in Melb, returned to Sydney, lived inner west, mountains, northern beaches, north bondi, inner city... no wonder I'm unstable. Though I ain't moving again. Enough is enough.
    It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play violin. That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
    The Scarlatti Tilt - Richard Brautigan

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    • Pekay
      Well retired, still sore
      • Sep 2004
      • 2134

      #17
      Born and bred in Blacktown, played all my junior footy there,senior footy out in the Hawkesbury for last 12 yrs,now a resident of this great part of the country. Hawkesbury RECOGNISE!

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      • BSA5
        Senior Player
        • Feb 2008
        • 2522

        #18
        Paddo boy myself, though as of this year I'm in Canberra. Very surprised by the number of people from inner/south/north west on this board!
        Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!

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        • Claret
          Support Staff
          • Sep 2005
          • 1104

          #19
          The buses from God's Country, aka The Shire, are always pretty packed for the Homebush games. Although it is generally always the same diehard fans.
          And the man who started it all, the Schneiderman . . . . .

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          • Cardinal
            Regular in the Side
            • Sep 2008
            • 932

            #20
            Canberra has it's own Government and I hear very soon will have it's own afl team

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            • Cheer Squad
              Sydney Swans
              • Apr 2007
              • 1948

              #21
              Originally posted by BSA5
              Paddo boy myself, though as of this year I'm in Canberra. Very surprised by the number of people from inner/south/north west on this board!
              Yeah, and if Bear has his way, we'll all end up supporters of the new western Sydney club.

              It'll make this year's membership collapse look like a blip on the radar.

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              • BSA5
                Senior Player
                • Feb 2008
                • 2522

                #22
                Originally posted by Cheer Squad
                Yeah, and if Bear has his way, we'll all end up supporters of the new western Sydney club.

                It'll make this year's membership collapse look like a blip on the radar.
                In fairness, it's not the inner west population that the new team will be looking to attract; it's the WEST west. Newtown, Marrickville, Erskineville, and even out to Homebush, all those places are basically within range of the Swans, and separate from the (admittedly stereotypical) working class culture of the Greater West of Sydney. It's Blacktown, Campbelltown, genuine western Suburbs, that the Western Sydney team should be appealing to.
                Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!

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                • Bear
                  Best and Fairest
                  • Feb 2003
                  • 1022

                  #23
                  Originally posted by BSA5
                  In fairness, it's not the inner west population that the new team will be looking to attract; it's the WEST west. Newtown, Marrickville, Erskineville, and even out to Homebush, all those places are basically within range of the Swans, and separate from the (admittedly stereotypical) working class culture of the Greater West of Sydney. It's Blacktown, Campbelltown, genuine western Suburbs, that the Western Sydney team should be appealing to.
                  Don't bring fairness and reason into the world of Cheer Squad. It won't suit his/her argument.
                  "As a player he simply should not have been able to do the things he did. Leo was a 185cm, 88kg full-back and played on some of the biggest, fastest and best full-forwards of all time, and constantly beat them." Roos.
                  Leo Barry? you star! We'll miss ya, ''Leapin''.

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                  • Robbo
                    On the Rookie List
                    • May 2007
                    • 2946

                    #24
                    Originally posted by Cardinal
                    Canberra has it's own Government and I hear very soon will have it's own afl team
                    And they will win a flag before Freo.

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                    • pinkemu
                      Silver member, not Gold
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 419

                      #25
                      Cheer cheer the Inner West!

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                      • Cheer Squad
                        Sydney Swans
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 1948

                        #26
                        Originally posted by Bear
                        Don't bring fairness and reason into the world of Cheer Squad. It won't suit his/her argument.

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                        • Cheer Squad
                          Sydney Swans
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 1948

                          #27
                          Originally posted by BSA5
                          Paddo boy myself, though as of this year I'm in Canberra. Very surprised by the number of people from inner/south/north west on this board!
                          Putting aside the inner west latte set, the number from the south west, north west and "westie" west is surprising. It's more than a third of the NSW people who've voted so far.

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                          • 573v30
                            On the bandwagon...
                            • Sep 2005
                            • 5017

                            #28
                            Would have to be the Northwest (near Hornsby) for me, though it would've been the Inner West had I not moved when I was 6.
                            I only support one team: The SYDNEY SWANS!!!!! :adore

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                            • bedford
                              forward coach
                              • Nov 2007
                              • 362

                              #29
                              The old South are still the most on here, two cities one team.

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                              • Cheer Squad
                                Sydney Swans
                                • Apr 2007
                                • 1948

                                #30
                                Originally posted by bedford
                                The old South are still the most on here, two cities one team.
                                Not really. NSW supporters outnumber non-NSW supporters by a margin of two-to-one, similar to the membership breakdown.

                                It would be interesting to poll the location of our non-NSW supporters.

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