Anyone know the name of the Swans/Giants derby

[nomae]

But Victoria do Baskin. The Hawks v Saints game is the 'Trevor Barker' maybe cup and Pies v Bombers on ANZAC Day is the ANZAC CUP. There are several others too that play for some sort of cup. There is an Indigenous Cup also and I think that is played by different sides in the Indigenous Round each year. There are probably more I think there is a Whitten Cup also but I don't know who other than the Bullies play for it.

Carlton vs Collingwood, probably the biggest rivalry in the game, does not have a title attached to it. It is just Carlton vs Collingwood yet every time they play all the fans go mental. The 'Trevor Barker' cup and the Anzac clash are to raise awareness and acknowledge genuinely significant organisations and groups of people. The 'derby' and 'showdown' dont recognise anything, they are just a moniker for commentators to introduce the game as so it feels it has more significance. I think if the derby were called the 'Bi-Annual Love Match' both Fremantle and West Coast players would still want to beat the living @@@@ out of each other.

And anyway, if this game against GWS was going to have a name someone would've come up with it already.

[Primmy]

And here's another thought. I don't think there ever will be a great Rivalry Round, until GWS actually beat the Swans. THEN we will be ravening, but not until then.

[CJK]

Anyone know the name of the Swans/Giants derby

Poster at Wynyard says 'The Sydney Derby'. Original.


EDIT - this is also the only poster I've seen round town and the only piece of advertising out there as far as I am aware. GET HYPED SYDNEY!!!...

[strapper]

Theres also a (Giant) as in BIG poster on the M4 at Concord

[Yuri H]

Did our rivalry with West Coast have a name?

'Good vs Evil'.

[Kirkari]

Coast v Country

[jono2707]

Dollars vs sense

[BeeEmmAre]

Poster at Wynyard says 'The Sydney Derby'. Original.


EDIT - this is also the only poster I've seen round town and the only piece of advertising out there as far as I am aware. GET HYPED SYDNEY!!!...

An ad in today's Biased Rag calls it Sydney Derby I.

It appears we may have a name. Does the different pronounciation make it original?

[CJK]

Noticed the I myself today, and there is a new poster on the Spit Bridge - strange location.

[johnno]

The battle of/for the bridge???

The honour of the harbour???

[dimelb]

It's official - the White Ribbon Trophy.

http://www.sydneyswans.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/7106/newsid/131046/default.aspx

[Dosser]

I'm sure that this is a worthwhile cause, but why not an organisation that helps kids who are bullied on a footy field for this match?

[Melbourne_Blood]

How do you differentiate between bullying on a footy field and regular sledging, niggling, roughing up that takes place on a footy field? Or are you referring to players bullying their own teammates ?

[aardvark]

How do you differentiate between bullying on a footy field and regular sledging, niggling, roughing up that takes place on a footy field? Or are you referring to players bullying their own teammates ?

Hey MB I think he's referring to the GWS boys Sat. night in particular.

[CommercialRd]

From the Swans on Feb 3rd:

http://www.sydneyswans.com.au/tabid/7106/default.aspx?newsid=128541

The award for the best player in the opening round Sydney Derby between the Sydney Swans and the Greater Western Sydney Giants is to be known as the Brett Kirk Medal.

Both clubs agreed that it would be fitting to name the Medal for all future Sydney Derby games after Kirk, who grew up in the NSW town of Albury.