I love it when AFL lovers defend attacks on their sport by defending homosexuality :lol::lol:
You do realise that the only place the Swans would find a regular home crowd is at the place where the Mardi Gras finishes!!!
The highest ever attendance for a regular season rugby league match in Sydney (excluding double headers) is 55,934, at the SCG in 1966 (Balmain vs Saints). There have been 298 regular season AFL/VFL games in Melbourne with an attendance greater than 60,000 (and 6 in Sydney). Membership numbers are just as lop-sided. The owners of ANZ Stadium know which sport has a history of supporters that actually get their arses to games in numbers, and which sport has fickle armchair fans with a massive inferiority complex.
If it was such a popular sport, how come you cant find a VRL website to f*ck off to?
YOU have the inferiority complex. None of those stats have anything to do with this thread, but its the stock standard retort from the Victorians toward any discussion involving Rugby League. The fact that their sport, in a century of massive promotion/wank, peters out not far north of Albury, bar a handful of mentally infected Victorian rules tragics and handbag collectors with a penchant for polishing turds, should tell you how popular it is.
Supplanting wank marketing teams in the capitals and throwing hype money at TV advertising does not makes ones sport popular. In fact, seek a tranquil location away from their corporate pox, like rural NSW north of the 'Bidgee and you wouldnt know it exists. Then again, AFL dosnt know that Rural Austraia exists. Up here, cycling gets more coverage. Baseball would smash it for junior participation.
AFL has absolutely no grasp on the 50% of us that live in the better half of the country. As soon as it gets an opportunity to field a side in a city smaller than 1 million people, it completely loses the plot. I mean, their Canberra side is called "Greater Western Sydney" ffs!!!! Face it - it's a minnow sport that only attracts metrosexuals - even Union understands what the ACT is.
A century of chronic wank about crowds has not seen one seed germinate north of the Gundagai Caltex. Teams in League heartland are full of Victorian expats. Their international promotion consists of photographing starving Third World kids made to hold a Sharon and wear one of their blouses before they get their UN food ration - and they paint that up as if it's a f*cking Kangaroo tour.
A century of having no opportunity to fund development outside of their Antarctica facing coastal ghettos has meant that their most effetive use of their accumulate war chest is to build finces around suburban Sydney parks that ban anyone from using them unless they play AFL. These places now see less human activity than the north face of Everest during a blizzard.
If Jason wants to use the traditional AFL crowd wank to justify ANZ's shafting of the sport that keeps it from being mothballed like Concord Oval, he can grow a f*cking brain for starters. Cop this typical Victorian line:
The owners of ANZ Stadium know which sport has a history of supporters that actually get their arses to games in numbers, and which sport has fickle armchair fans with a massive inferiority complex.
Six times AFL has, through massive media hype and government/council corruption and infiltration, jagged more than 60k to a Sydney game. Six. Wow.
Has it ever occurred to you that the average attendance at home games for Sydney NRL clubs is 132k this year? The owners of ANZ stadium know jack sh*t. League is the code that gets numbers in Sydney, AFL has the armchair supporters with the massive inferiority complex - like you.
And if ANZ are only interested in servicing the highest bidder, I have only one word for you.
Origin.
So you and your Bunniesman tunnel buddy Dogslife can take your Swans handbags and f*ck off.
