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  • liz
    Veteran
    Site Admin
    • Jan 2003
    • 16844
    #1

    Region of origin

    Thought it might be interesting to test this idea that the Swans have little appeal to anyone west of Strathfield by doing a straw poll of where a cross-section of Swans fans - ie RWOers - consider to be their region of origin in terms of supporting the Swans.

    So not where do you currently live, but more which region of Sydney/NSW/rest of the country do you consider you come from. Where were you living when the Swans caught your interest?
    126
    Eastern suburbs / Sydney city
    0%
    10
    Lower North Shore / Northern Beaches
    0%
    9
    Inner West
    0%
    15
    West (Parramatta'ish)
    0%
    1
    Northwest
    0%
    12
    Southwest
    0%
    14
    South / Shire
    0%
    4
    Greater Sydney (eg Newcastle, Wollongong, Blue Mountains)
    0%
    9
    Other NSW/ACT
    0%
    8
    Non -NSW (including, of course, our valued Victorian brethren)
    0%
    44

    The poll is expired.

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    • laughingnome
      Amateur Statsman
      • Jul 2006
      • 1624
      #2
      Hey, what about the Upper North Shore and Hornsby Shire?!
      10100111001 ;-)

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        • ugg
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          Site Admin
          • Jan 2003
          • 15980
          #3
          Originally posted by laughingnome
          Hey, what about the Upper North Shore and Hornsby Shire?!
          Northwest ('ish)?
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            • liz
              Veteran
              Site Admin
              • Jan 2003
              • 16844
              #4
              Originally posted by laughingnome
              Hey, what about the Upper North Shore and Hornsby Shire?!

              Sorry - only so many options allowed in a poll - so I was bound to upset some. Pick whichever you consider closest to where you consider yourself from. I guess I always think of the Pacific Highway as an extension of the LNS, though I realise that by the time you get to Hornsby you're a fair way north.

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                • Jeffers1984
                  Veterans List
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 4564
                  #5
                  Inner West....Represent!
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                    • Northern_Swan
                      Sweet home Novacastria
                      • Nov 2004
                      • 530
                      #6
                      Even though I find the decision to place Newcastle as part of Greater Sydney as abhorrent, I still ticked that option.

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                        • desredandwhite
                          Click!
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 2498
                          #7
                          Parramatta is now west?

                          Anyway, I went with Northwest as I am ever so slightly closer to Rouse Hill than Blacktown!!

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                            • Cheer Squad
                              Sydney Swans
                              • Apr 2007
                              • 1948
                              #8
                              I suppose Bankstown is really part of the southwest, isn't it? Everyone in Sydney regarded us as western suburbs, we regarded Parramatta and beyond as western suburbs.

                              Actually, we never considered Penrith as part of Sydney's western suburbs. We considered that part of the Blue Mountains.

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                                • dimelb
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                                  • Jun 2003
                                  • 6889
                                  #9
                                  I took a while to work it out. I grew up in Randwick but didn't start following AFL until 3-4 years after we moved to Melbourne. With the interest in AFL came the choice of a team, and given where we (the family) came from, the Swans were a natural choice. So, eastern suburbs.
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                                    • Cardinal
                                      Regular in the Side
                                      • Sep 2008
                                      • 932
                                      #10
                                      Canberra is lumped with other NSW ?

                                      I reckon there will be a relatively even spread in any case

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                                        • liz
                                          Veteran
                                          Site Admin
                                          • Jan 2003
                                          • 16844
                                          #11
                                          Really really sorry( ) if I have offended anyone with my choice of geographical regions. I was really trying to just divvy the city/state/country up within the constraint of the 10 poll options that RWO provides. I am just curious to see whether the notion that the Swans' heartland is dominated by the Eastern Suburbs/LNS set (South Melbournites aside) holds true, at least on RWO.

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                                            • stellation
                                              scott names the planets
                                              • Sep 2003
                                              • 9737
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Cheer Squad
                                              Actually, we never considered Penrith as part of Sydney's western suburbs. We considered that part of the Blue Mountains.
                                              I'm pretty sure that residents of the Blue Mountains would disagree with that!
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                                                • desredandwhite
                                                  Click!
                                                  • Jan 2003
                                                  • 2498
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by stellation
                                                  I'm pretty sure that residents of the Blue Mountains would disagree with that!

                                                  Haha yes. I have always regarded "West" as being between Blacktown and Penrith. Any further west and it becomes "Mountains"

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                                                    • snajik
                                                      Senior Player
                                                      • Jan 2003
                                                      • 1115
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by stellation
                                                      I'm pretty sure that residents of the Blue Mountains would disagree with that!
                                                      We do. We look down on those Penrith folk (literally).
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                                                        • ScottH
                                                          It's Goodes to cheer!!
                                                          • Sep 2003
                                                          • 23665
                                                          #15
                                                          I said South, although technically, it is SSW.

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