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AFLW 2024 - Round 6 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Anyone else noticed that GWS are using Red, White and Blue as their promotional colours too??
Imagine having two "Western" teams basically in the same colours.
I really hope they dont use our colours. It would be horrible
What if we changed our name to Western Melbourne Bulldogs... I'd love to be footscray again but I think it limits our potential for growth what if we targeted as growth area in the west like Werribee and became Wyndham or something?
Well said. The whole naming thing went to the 'dogs' years ago when we were forced to use stupid monickers ... Richmond Tigers / Carlton Blues / North Melbourne Kangaroos ... smacked of wanting to sound all American.
I don't understand what you're getting at here. Haven't our clubs been using their mascots since, I dunno, the forties or something at the very, very latest, but probably earlier for most clubs.
Are you claiming that the old VFL was trying to americanise the teams way back then?
Ahhh, I see what you're getting at.
*Apologies for overuse of quotation marks but I'm an anarchist when it comes to capitalism and can't help but be sarcastic.
Ahhh, I see what you're getting at.
But were the clubs 'forced' to include these monikers by the league or by the the march of capitalism pushing their hands to make their 'brand' appear more 'attractive' in the 'marketplace'?*
Of course the AFL wants financially stable clubs but did they demand all this marketing push from the clubs or did the clubs simply have to adopt these tactics to keep up with the cost of running a modern footy club?
The end for me was when I started to go to the footy at Docklands and could not easily sit with my friends ... because we all had our seats. The dill I sat beside - yes a Dogs supporter and a total stranger - was an interminable bore (insert Bulldogs Big Footy poster's name here) and while I was watching the game fairly quietly from a tactical viewpoint, he was just shouting inane 'I don't understand the game' rubbish.
Anyone else noticed that GWS are using Red, White and Blue as their promotional colours too??
Imagine having two "Western" teams basically in the same colours.
I really hope they dont use our colours. It would be horrible
Vlad was on Before the Couch on Monday and stated quite emphatically that GWS would in no way wear colours that will clash with the Dogs.
Vlad was on Before the Couch on Monday and stated quite emphatically that GWS would in no way wear colours that will clash with the Dogs.