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mcgarnacle said:
you obviously don't understand where the Greater Western Sydney region of the Greater Sydney metropolitan is. hint: it's not entirely where the AFL or Kevin Sheedy told you it is. an area merely west of the Sydney CBD doesn't label it in the region of Western Sydney. anyone living in the inner west from pyrmont to concord would not consider their suburb as 'western sydney',
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Yeah, I get that there are some Inner West folks out there who try to convince themselves that they're not part of Western Sydney, 'cause they don't want to be associated with the working class folks from Penrith, Cabramatta or Rooty Hill.

I'm just not that kind of Inner West type.

Have to agree to disagree I s'pose.

...unless they're attempting to twist an argument based on the footy clubs they support such as yourself with either the giants ...
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:eek:

Now hang on a minute there ...

... the footy club I support ain't based anywhere in the Sydney basin (my avatar provides a subtle clue) so I'm not trying to make any such argument.
 
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I'm just curious how they're going to spin this to give the AFL justification for more handouts.

What will it be this year? Priority picks, a 'bonus' thousand draft points to use on academy players, or an extension of their current COLA?
 
76woodenspooners said:
Yeah, I get that there are some Inner West folks out there who try to convince themselves that they're not part of Western Sydney, 'cause they don't want to be associated with the working class folks from Penrith, Cabramatta or Rooty Hill.

I'm just not that kind of Inner West type.

Have to agree to disagree I s'pose.
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i agree with what it has always been.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney
Greater_Western_Sydney_Map.gif


The AFL knew it too back in 2011 before they moved the club's training base further east, and sheeds tried to put a number on the dumb folk with the 'battle of the bridge'.
Of the memberships, Canberra, where the club will play three matches next year, attracted more than 40 per cent; the 14 local government areas that make up GWS regions, including Liverpool, Blacktown, Penrith, Parramatta, Fairfield, Auburn, Bankstown and Campbelltown, managed 25 per cent; and the rest of Sydney, and Australia, made up the remainder.
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western sydney and greater western sydney (the latter just adds the macarthur lga's) is a region and you need to be onto the M4 at Olympic Park before you're in it.


:eek:

Now hang on a minute there ...

... the footy club I support ain't based anywhere in the Sydney basin (my avatar provides a subtle clue) so I'm not trying to make any such argument.
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but you say you cannot support Sydney FC due to the incorrect assumption, like incorrect assumptions about the the sydney swans, that they are an eastern suburbs club. this is not true. in fact, the canterbury football association (taking in all the inner west councils + the old canterbury lga) is directly associated with Sydney FC. the wanderers, being a club representing 'western sydney' have the territory beyond it which is generally accepted as being western sydney.
 
mcgarnacle said:
i agree with what it has always been.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney
Greater_Western_Sydney_Map.gif


The AFL knew it too back in 2011 before they moved the club's training base further east, and sheeds tried to put a number on the dumb folk with the 'battle of the bridge'.


western sydney and greater western sydney (the latter just adds the macarthur lga's) is a region and you need to be onto the M4 at Olympic Park before you're in it.



but you say you cannot support Sydney FC due to the incorrect assumption, like incorrect assumptions about the the sydney swans, that they are an eastern suburbs club. this is not true. in fact, the canterbury football association (taking in all the inner west councils + the old canterbury lga) is directly associated with Sydney FC. the wanderers, being a club representing 'western sydney' have the territory beyond it which is generally accepted as being western sydney.
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So the wanderers are 10 mins up the road and this season is using our home ground yet they are more western sydney?

Fmd you do make me laugh.

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mcgarnacle said:
i agree with what it has always been.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney
Greater_Western_Sydney_Map.gif


The AFL knew it too back in 2011 before they moved the club's training base further east, and sheeds tried to put a number on the dumb folk with the 'battle of the bridge'.


western sydney and greater western sydney (the latter just adds the macarthur lga's) is a region and you need to be onto the M4 at Olympic Park before you're in it.



but you say you cannot support Sydney FC due to the incorrect assumption, like incorrect assumptions about the the sydney swans, that they are an eastern suburbs club. this is not true. in fact, the canterbury football association (taking in all the inner west councils + the old canterbury lga) is directly associated with Sydney FC. the wanderers, being a club representing 'western sydney' have the territory beyond it which is generally accepted as being western sydney.
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I don't think footy supporters necessarily respect administrative boundaries. I recently moved from one federal electorate to another. Well, not really, I didn't actually move, some public servant moved a boundary on a map.

The Collingwood Football Club does take its name from the suburb it was founded in, and it does retain roots to that past. But I'd hazard a guess that very few Collingwood supporters are from / live / have ever lived / family has ever lived within the official boundaries of the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I agree that some inner west types would identify with Swans rather than Greater Western Sydney. But there are some who won't.
 

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76woodenspooners said:
I don't think footy supporters necessarily respect administrative boundaries. I recently moved from one federal electorate to another. Well, not really, I didn't actually move, some public servant moved a boundary on a map.

The Collingwood Football Club does take its name from the suburb it was founded in, and it does retain roots to that past. But I'd hazard a guess that very few Collingwood supporters are from / live / have ever lived / family has ever lived within the official boundaries of the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I agree that some inner west types would identify with Swans rather than Greater Western Sydney. But there are some who won't.
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The Melbourne situation now is irrelevant with regard to Sydney. All those clubs were set up in the late 19th century which were originally inner-city neighbours - North, Cartlton, Fitzroy, Collingwood, Richmond, Melbourne, South Melbourne all share a suburban boundary with at least one of those clubs. At the time, much of the support for these clubs would have come from the areas their name represents anyway.

Federal electorates aren't of any use except for distinguishing federal electorates. Football clubs don't name themselves after them so this is a poor example.

In contrast, the AFL gave the Giants a name which is also a recognised region in the metropolitan it is based. I've also shown where it is. This doesn't include the inner west despite how much you're trying to explain, subjectively, that it does. It's not about inner westies don't want to be lumped with the folk from rooty hill. It's a fact that they aren't part of the same region. The Giants having their base straddling the inner west's doorstep, or a melbournian in sydney for two weeks naming a derby 'battle of the anzac bridge', doesn't change this fact.
 

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