SJ
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Difference is, Sydney play like "busteds" and 28,000 on average turn up every game. Against interstate sides.
When the Eels play like "busteds", 7000 turn up to a game against another Sydney-based side.
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When the Eels play like "busteds", 7000 turn up to a game against another Sydney-based side.
gostk86
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yes, we've made progress here
That is because Victorians travel in their thousands to Sydney and Brisbane to see their team play.
One, because it is akin to an 'overseas' sporting trip for our poor Mexican cousins.
Two, if you had a brown open sewer running through the middle of your your town, wouldn't you want to get out?
Lastly, no one that actually was born here actually follows it either, it is all expats and lesbians from Annandale.
Cheers to SLF and the mods for allowing this thread too.
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Ant_
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Always liked the Mexican south of the border thing.
Would mean Queenslanders are Canadians, nice friendly people but a bit slow........eh.
Then in the middle, New South Welshmen are the loud mouthed, stupid, arrogant, insular Yanks that nobody else likes.
gostk86
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Always liked the Mexican south of the border thing.
Would mean Queenslanders are Canadians, nice friendly people but a bit slow........eh.
Then in the middle, New South Welshmen are the loud mouthed, stupid, arrogant, insular Yanks that nobody else likes.
actually that sums it up well lol
Ronin "Source" Nazi is back, but this time he's talking directly out of his arse without a "fact" in sight...It's okay Ronin, you're obviously expressing your opinion...
So no-one who follows Sydney is from here, apart from Lesbians from annandale eh?
My brother, sister-in-law and I (to name three) attend most, if not all home games. We were all born in Rooty Hill (a far cry from your fantasy Lesbo ghetto) and they live in Werrington, still the heartland of league. My brother (like myself) followed league from childhood, UNTIL one fateful day about 15 years ago when we went to an AFL game. Neither of us have ever been back to a game of league. Why, because it's shit.
I live in the inner west and drink at a pub where most of the blokes who follow AFL were once league fans. Most even still watch it, more out a vague interest and a sense of loyalty than anything. They are all from Sydney, NOT MELBOURNE.
Take a leaf out of gosk's book and get a sense of humour before you come here and start talking complete shit. The only time you ever come to the AFL site is to sling shit and leave. And try and get your "facts" right.
Holding The Ball
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- Melbourne Storm, Manchester City
And less than 100k watching on telly...
lol
Sydney vs West Coast, Round 8 2009
Official crowd: 33,079 at ANZ Stadium
Sydney vs Port Adelaide, Round 9 2009
Official crowd: 23,229 at the SCG
Sydney vs Brisbane, Round 22 2009
Official crowd: 27,933 at the SCG
Teams from Queensland, SA and WA and only Brisbane made the finals out of all of them.
Nice try though
SJ
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Compared to the four Melburnians who watch the Storm play at 12:30AM.
Cooee Cobber
Debutant
The argument that more people live in NSW and Queensland is stupid because more people do not equal more fans and we all know how passionate Sydneysiders are for their sport.
Apologies for the misunderstanding, throwing the pill backwards, running into someone, limited skills on display. Shit he's only human
I forgot, the work visas supplied to a multitude of maoris and sth pacific islanders. Wow how they have added to our culture
Ohno the french and kiwis don't rate us
When in history have these countries ever been rated
STC
Norm Smith Medallist
Probably the last time France succeeded at war...Ohno the french and kiwis don't rate us
When in history have these countries ever been rated
EVER HEARD OF NFL BIFFO, NO INTERNATIONALS GAMES BUT THE MOST ATTENDED/TV VIEWERS IN THE WORLD
THINK THE SEPOS CARE ABOUT YOUR INTERNATIONAL GAME, HAHA WHAT A JOKETHEY HAVE PASSION FOR THEIR OWN GAME LIKE US AFL LOVERS
Copulator
Club Legend
You're all gay
As already stated, State of Origin was an Australian Football concept stolen by League. It works brilliantly for League, liked it used to for us, until our game worked that rivalry into the weekly competition. That's why State of Origin has died in the AFL - Vic haters get their fix every week insted of three times a season.
League's international presence is entirely due to English Imperialism, much like soccer or cricket, except they seem to have a slightly wider reach.
Not just league lovers, people from anywhere. I've taken people from several different countries to AFL games and they all loved it. This is related to why League rates well in its home territories and AFL doesn't - and why League crowds are poor: you see everything you need to see of League on the TV, whereas TV cannot hope to capture the complexity and scale of Australian Football. That's why people who don't understand it (and even some who do) have trouble watching it on TV yet find it a revelation when they actually go to a game.
This lack of understanding is behind the fear league followers have of our game. We all fear the unknown and Australian Football is difficult to understand if all you know of it is glimpses on TV. Rugby League is simple to understand. We all know what it's about, which is why we don't fear it.
Now I'm going to go against the grain (and perhaps the spirit) of this thread a little and declare that I love Rugby League. It's much better than Union, not as good as soccer (but often better to watch), and needless to say falls short of the Greatest Game of All, but it still has its place. At its best it's magnificent to watch and you don't even have to leave your lounge room or the pub to see everything you need to see. Billy Slater, Greg Inglis, Joey Johns, Petro Civoneciva and Jonathan Thurstans are superstars in my book.
But it's not as good as Our Game. The difference comes back to one word so often abused when talking about football: culture.
Football of some description (yes, even the kinds where kicking the ball is a last resort) is practically universal across every culture on Earth.
We live in the greatest country on Earth (well, Sweety doesn't, poor bugger) and we should all be thankful to the Poms for giving it to us and then largely staying the **** away (or in conveniently avoidable Barmy Army tour groups) ever since. Even better, they put all the criminals in Sydney, where they could carry on their English traditions, while the true visionaries, those who chose to come here because they saw the potential in this great land, preferred Melbourne.
Fortune seekers from all over the world flocked to the Gold Rush, and within 50 years of Batman's declaration that 'this shall be the place for a village', Melbourne was one of the richest cities in the world. With riches came culture, the arts and a greater concentration of intelligence. The meshing of cultures and nationalities that Sydney still struggles with was present from Melbourne's earliest days and far from being a problem, has enriched our great city, its people and its culture.
I think you see what I'm getting at here: Melbourne was the first true Australian city. It is the best Australian city. The best, truest, most distinctly Australian city in the best, truest, most distinctly Australian country in the world.
That's our culture. Now, as I said, most all cultures practise some kind of football. NSW (and by extension Queensland, since it used to be part of NSW) imported the rugby codes because that's what those transported-against-their-will Poms were used to. Victorians, being a can-do people of vision who rejected the old world for the new, said: "Nah. We can do better than that."
And so they did.
Every time you visit the MCG you should pay homage to the statue of Tom Wills. I know I do.
As much as I love it, league fans would have to travel to Newcastle (England) to pay homage to a bunch of disgruntled coal miners who you can bet don't even have a statue in their honour.
As already stated, State of Origin was an Australian Football concept stolen by League. It works brilliantly for League, liked it used to for us, until our game worked that rivalry into the weekly competition. That's why State of Origin has died in the AFL - Vic haters get their fix every week insted of three times a season.
League's international presence is entirely due to English Imperialism, much like soccer or cricket, except they seem to have a slightly wider reach.
Not just league lovers, people from anywhere. I've taken people from several different countries to AFL games and they all loved it. This is related to why League rates well in its home territories and AFL doesn't - and why League crowds are poor: you see everything you need to see of League on the TV, whereas TV cannot hope to capture the complexity and scale of Australian Football. That's why people who don't understand it (and even some who do) have trouble watching it on TV yet find it a revelation when they actually go to a game.
This lack of understanding is behind the fear league followers have of our game. We all fear the unknown and Australian Football is difficult to understand if all you know of it is glimpses on TV. Rugby League is simple to understand. We all know what it's about, which is why we don't fear it.
Now I'm going to go against the grain (and perhaps the spirit) of this thread a little and declare that I love Rugby League. It's much better than Union, not as good as soccer (but often better to watch), and needless to say falls short of the Greatest Game of All, but it still has its place. At its best it's magnificent to watch and you don't even have to leave your lounge room or the pub to see everything you need to see. Billy Slater, Greg Inglis, Joey Johns, Petro Civoneciva and Jonathan Thurstans are superstars in my book.
But it's not as good as Our Game. The difference comes back to one word so often abused when talking about football: culture.
Football of some description (yes, even the kinds where kicking the ball is a last resort) is practically universal across every culture on Earth.
We live in the greatest country on Earth (well, Sweety doesn't, poor bugger) and we should all be thankful to the Poms for giving it to us and then largely staying the **** away (or in conveniently avoidable Barmy Army tour groups) ever since. Even better, they put all the criminals in Sydney, where they could carry on their English traditions, while the true visionaries, those who chose to come here because they saw the potential in this great land, preferred Melbourne.
Fortune seekers from all over the world flocked to the Gold Rush, and within 50 years of Batman's declaration that 'this shall be the place for a village', Melbourne was one of the richest cities in the world. With riches came culture, the arts and a greater concentration of intelligence. The meshing of cultures and nationalities that Sydney still struggles with was present from Melbourne's earliest days and far from being a problem, has enriched our great city, its people and its culture.
I think you see what I'm getting at here: Melbourne was the first true Australian city. It is the best Australian city. The best, truest, most distinctly Australian city in the best, truest, most distinctly Australian country in the world.
That's our culture. Now, as I said, most all cultures practise some kind of football. NSW (and by extension Queensland, since it used to be part of NSW) imported the rugby codes because that's what those transported-against-their-will Poms were used to. Victorians, being a can-do people of vision who rejected the old world for the new, said: "Nah. We can do better than that."
And so they did.
Every time you visit the MCG you should pay homage to the statue of Tom Wills. I know I do.
As much as I love it, league fans would have to travel to Newcastle (England) to pay homage to a bunch of disgruntled coal miners who you can bet don't even have a statue in their honour.
Excellent summation
but no league fan I have ever met could read that many paragraphs
I agree with the main gist of your post got no issues there mate. But to attribute soccer’s world wide popularity (well over 200 countries) to the reach of England’s Imperialism is a ridiculous tired cliche.
As far and wide England’s empire was, they did not colonise 99% of the world FFS. lol
Cricket and thugby are a testament of England’s colonial past because to this day those games remain relevant to varying degrees in their former colonies so yep I completely agree there. Outside these former colonies though (NZ, India, West Indies, Australia, etc..) cricket and thugby are mostly viewed as silly little oddities, which strongly suggest soccer’s popularity is due to something other than “England’s Imperialism”. As much as it pains some idiots it’s probably because of the simple fact that soccer is an infinitely better sport than both crappy cricket and rugby.
Tex_21
Norm Smith Medallist
tl:drAs already stated, State of Origin was an Australian Football concept stolen by League. It works brilliantly for League, liked it used to for us, until our game worked that rivalry into the weekly competition. That's why State of Origin has died in the AFL - Vic haters get their fix every week insted of three times a season.
League's international presence is entirely due to English Imperialism, much like soccer or cricket, except they seem to have a slightly wider reach.
Not just league lovers, people from anywhere. I've taken people from several different countries to AFL games and they all loved it. This is related to why League rates well in its home territories and AFL doesn't - and why League crowds are poor: you see everything you need to see of League on the TV, whereas TV cannot hope to capture the complexity and scale of Australian Football. That's why people who don't understand it (and even some who do) have trouble watching it on TV yet find it a revelation when they actually go to a game.
This lack of understanding is behind the fear league followers have of our game. We all fear the unknown and Australian Football is difficult to understand if all you know of it is glimpses on TV. Rugby League is simple to understand. We all know what it's about, which is why we don't fear it.
Now I'm going to go against the grain (and perhaps the spirit) of this thread a little and declare that I love Rugby League. It's much better than Union, not as good as soccer (but often better to watch), and needless to say falls short of the Greatest Game of All, but it still has its place. At its best it's magnificent to watch and you don't even have to leave your lounge room or the pub to see everything you need to see. Billy Slater, Greg Inglis, Joey Johns, Petro Civoneciva and Jonathan Thurstans are superstars in my book.
But it's not as good as Our Game. The difference comes back to one word so often abused when talking about football: culture.
Football of some description (yes, even the kinds where kicking the ball is a last resort) is practically universal across every culture on Earth.
We live in the greatest country on Earth (well, Sweety doesn't, poor bugger) and we should all be thankful to the Poms for giving it to us and then largely staying the **** away (or in conveniently avoidable Barmy Army tour groups) ever since. Even better, they put all the criminals in Sydney, where they could carry on their English traditions, while the true visionaries, those who chose to come here because they saw the potential in this great land, preferred Melbourne.
Fortune seekers from all over the world flocked to the Gold Rush, and within 50 years of Batman's declaration that 'this shall be the place for a village', Melbourne was one of the richest cities in the world. With riches came culture, the arts and a greater concentration of intelligence. The meshing of cultures and nationalities that Sydney still struggles with was present from Melbourne's earliest days and far from being a problem, has enriched our great city, its people and its culture.
I think you see what I'm getting at here: Melbourne was the first true Australian city. It is the best Australian city. The best, truest, most distinctly Australian city in the best, truest, most distinctly Australian country in the world.
That's our culture. Now, as I said, most all cultures practise some kind of football. NSW (and by extension Queensland, since it used to be part of NSW) imported the rugby codes because that's what those transported-against-their-will Poms were used to. Victorians, being a can-do people of vision who rejected the old world for the new, said: "Nah. We can do better than that."
And so they did.
Every time you visit the MCG you should pay homage to the statue of Tom Wills. I know I do.
As much as I love it, league fans would have to travel to Newcastle (England) to pay homage to a bunch of disgruntled coal miners who you can bet don't even have a statue in their honour.
Can't we all just get along? No? Wel you can all go an fist yourself while wearing one of those green hulk gloves.
Randy, you're right in a sense that men all over the world have been kicking their vanquished foe's heads to each other for as long as they have been lopping them off, thereby ensuring the enthusiastic uptake of soccer once the English codified it as a sport as opposed to a bit of post-slaughter fun.
I still say Imperialism spread the game, though it's probably more accurate to say European Imperialism rather than just English. I stand corrected.
I still say Imperialism spread the game, though it's probably more accurate to say European Imperialism rather than just English. I stand corrected.
Poor Tex. Maybe you're following the wrong code.
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And even then, as I showed earlier in the thread, more people like soccer anyway.
In Wigan, THE stronghold of RL in the UK, the local soccer team gets attendences nearly double that of the RL team.
Rugby League is a piss poor Pommy sport that even the Poms don't like.
