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  • ShockOfHair
    One Man Out
    • Dec 2007
    • 3668

    I've already cast my vote for the Flannels.

    Help name the new Western Sydney AFL Team
    The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news

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    • ugg
      Can you feel it?
      Site Admin
      • Jan 2003
      • 15970

      I've always had a soft spot for Roy & HG's suggestion, the Western Sydney Clowns.
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      • erica
        Happy and I know it
        • Jan 2008
        • 1247

        I always liked Richard Hinds' name - the whatevers.
        All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

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        • Lucky Knickers
          Fandom of Fabulousness
          • Oct 2003
          • 4220

          GWS Pride sounds like the worst sort of jingoistic ultra-nationalist bogun baiting to me. The mascot?
          I prefer animals. Simpler for everyone. Power and Dockers are both silly!

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          • stellation
            scott names the planets
            • Sep 2003
            • 9721

            GWS Frankensteins : 'cause they're the hastily cobbled together creation of a crazed genius.

            Yes, I realize Frankenstein would be Sheedy and the team should technically be perhaps GWS Frankenstein's Monsters... or perhaps GWS Monsters- which would give a nice link to monster trucks I guess to draw in the folks of western Sydney?
            I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
            We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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            • stellation
              scott names the planets
              • Sep 2003
              • 9721

              Stella junior has confirmed that he would consider following them keenly if they named themselves the GWS Tapirs. No particular affinity between a tapir and western Sydney, he just likes tapirs.
              I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
              We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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              • laughingnome
                Amateur Statsman
                • Jul 2006
                • 1624

                Originally posted by Lucky Knickers
                I prefer animals.!
                Ditto, though I'd go further and push Australian animals. The problem is so many have been taken by AFL teams and national teams that there isn't much left to choose from. Eagles, Hawks, Magpies, Kangaroos, Swans, Tigers all have an affinity with local fauna, then you've got sides like the Kookaburras (hockey), Sharks (RL & QAFL) ... the list goes on. The only ones I can think of with no strong team following are Emus, Dingoes, Gallahs, Snakes and Lizards, none of which are exactly inspiring.
                10100111001 ;-)

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                • iigrover
                  Warming the Bench
                  • Sep 2005
                  • 245

                  I followed Roy and HG's suggestion and voted for "Clowns" with team colours of pink and baby blue.
                  :-D

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                  • dimelb
                    pr. dim-melb; m not f
                    • Jun 2003
                    • 6889

                    Originally posted by laughingnome
                    Ditto, though I'd go further and push Australian animals. The problem is so many have been taken by AFL teams and national teams that there isn't much left to choose from. Eagles, Hawks, Magpies, Kangaroos, Swans, Tigers all have an affinity with local fauna, then you've got sides like the Kookaburras (hockey), Sharks (RL & QAFL) ... the list goes on. The only ones I can think of with no strong team following are Emus, Dingoes, Gallahs, Snakes and Lizards, none of which are exactly inspiring.
                    The Blacktown Bluetongues.
                    The Penrith Platypuses.
                    Or as I suggested elsewhere, The Western Walers. The Walers- not Whalers, it's from New South Wales - were the horses ridden by the Light Horsemen who captured Beersheba in WW1. They were sturdy and powerfully built. And it ties in with the Light Horse Interchange which would have to be one of the biggest engineering projects in the western region.
                    He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                    • Lucky Knickers
                      Fandom of Fabulousness
                      • Oct 2003
                      • 4220

                      The Taipans might be good. I didn't pop that one in the suggestion box.

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                      • robamiee
                        Regular in the Side
                        • Sep 2005
                        • 688

                        Could always go with The Goanna's or Pythons considering the snake gully section of the ground apparently had a heap of tiger snakes during construction...

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                        • ugg
                          Can you feel it?
                          Site Admin
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 15970

                          GWS iSwans 2.0
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                          • Glenn
                            ROLLLLLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!
                            • Mar 2003
                            • 2443

                            GWS Lovechild (of the AFL)
                            Premiers 09,18,33,05

                            "You Irish Twit", Quote attributed to a RWO member who shall remain nameless.

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                            • Glenn
                              ROLLLLLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!
                              • Mar 2003
                              • 2443

                              It's the Greater Western Swindle | The Daily Telegraph

                              Roos has a point, who were the AFL trying to promote here
                              Premiers 09,18,33,05

                              "You Irish Twit", Quote attributed to a RWO member who shall remain nameless.

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                              • Vonsteinman
                                Warming the Bench
                                • Sep 2008
                                • 366

                                Originally posted by Glenn
                                It's the Greater Western Swindle | The Daily Telegraph

                                Roos has a point, who were the AFL trying to promote here
                                Roos said. "The game is between Carlton and the game is in Sydney, so I would be surprised if there is any need to do it or if there are any GWS fans there."

                                Sheedy made some smug statement on the tv about there being such a big crowd and that it wouldn't have been seen there two years ago... WTF?

                                Seemed to me that it was mostly Swans fans there...

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