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.....There's Lin Jong too, and it would seem apt if the first Vietnamese player debuts for the Bulldogs...../QUOTE]
Lin Jong is of Taiwanese-Timorese descent.
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.....There's Lin Jong too, and it would seem apt if the first Vietnamese player debuts for the Bulldogs...../QUOTE]
Lin Jong is of Taiwanese-Timorese descent.
West - Footscray, North West - Essendon, North - Collingwood, North East - Richmond, East - Hawthorn, South East - St. Kilda. Carlton fans are scattered everywhere and North Melb fans scattered usually throughout the north. Demons? stuffed if I know, never met a genuine Melbourne supporter. Just from my expereince growing up through school.
I live in Footscray, and as anyone who lives in the Western suburbs knows, the Dogs and the western suburbs are inseparable. There are several permanent murals, paintings etc of the Bulldogs here. Today I was walking in central Footscray, as i often do, and going through West Footscray, Braybrook, Sunshine etc I lost count of all the Dogs posters, banners, paintings, decorations etc. They painted all the posts in Footscray white, red and blue. Nowhere else in Melbourne is the presence so strong. Also it just seems to me almost everyone I know who lives in Maribyrnong and Brimbank at least goes for the Dogs, though not all are necessarily big footy fans. It's almost like going for the Bulldogs goes hand in hand with representing the Western suburbs. On Saturday night after beating the Giants, people were going crazy in Footscray like they'd already won the GF.
I haven't found this to me the case regarding any of the other Melbourne clubs regarding this. Most of their supporters are relatively scattered, although supporters do tend to be more concentrated in some areas (I made a thread about this awhile back). St. Kilda, Melbourne and North are also small 'underdog' clubs now but going to St. Kilda or North Melbourne, there isn't quite the same feeling. Going to Richmond, Collingwood, Carlton, Hawthorn etc it's not quite the same. You do see signs here and there, but I don't get the feeling the majority of people who live their support those teams. In fact in Collingwood I don't get the impression most people care that much about footy, haha jk.
So in that sense the Western Bulldogs are still very much linked in a very real sense with Footscray and the West. Couldn't tell you the exact boundaries, if there are any, but Footscray down to Williamstown, probably out to St. Albans...the Maribyrnong River is probably the dividing line between Dogs and Dons/Roos territory. But in that sense they're more like Geelong, or the clubs in Perth and Adelaide. I feel with the other clubs they're too split up and supporters are too scattered to have any real meaningful connection with the suburb that bears their name.
Perth Boy: "....There's Lin Jong too, and it would seem apt if the first Vietnamese player debuts for the Bulldogs....."
Lin Jong is of Taiwanese-Timorese descent.
Valid point, in a lot of ways, we are the true suburban club.
Geelong representing a city that isn't the capital city is the only one that comes close.
I'm not sure about recruiting zones, but one thing i have picked up on during my shortish stay down geelong way, there seems to be a very strong rivalry between Geelong and Ballarat. The way the older and home grown locals speak about each other seems strange that home grown Ratters would support Geelong... in anythig really lol.That's pretty cool to here. Isn't Ballarat part of the Geelong recruiting 'region'?
I'm not sure about recruiting zones, but one thing i have picked up on during my shortish stay down geelong way, there seems to be a very strong rivalry between Geelong and Ballarat. The way the older and home grown locals speak about each other seems strange that home grown Ratters would support Geelong... in anythig really lol.
Thanks, interesting insight. I wonder about the idea of a Ballarat AFL team? haha. Probably more grass-roots footy support than the whole of western Sydney.
Ballarat is very parochial. North is in the VFL but I would not be surprised if I found more people that hated them than loved them
Why the hate?
Why the hate?
Why the hate?