Sydney is Red, White and Blue

[Vic Mackey]

Time for a new alt adbert.

Maybe call yourself besthookerfriend

You gotta admire the way he shifts through all the accounts seemlessly. I get stuck just moving between Vic and R20

 

[Tommy Smith]

Where is R20?

He's been curiously absent since Saturday

 

[Haffa]

View attachment 23769 View attachment 23768 Can’t move in Perth for blue and yellow. It’s a shame Sydney doesn’t love its sports clubs as much as other cities do.

Perth didn't really love the Reds or Force very much.

Wasteland state.

 

[The Rosco]

Where is R20?

He's been curiously absent since Saturday

By "curiously" you mean sobbing and by "absent" you mean unstoppably ?

 

[Lambretta]

Old R20 is a sing when yer winning type

Being a Pommy merkin, I'm more of a whinge when you can type of twat

 

[Valheru]

Where is R20?

He's been curiously absent since Saturday

To be fair to the poor bugger he was actually missing well before that.

Not one post in the Game day thread.

 

[Perth Red]

Perth didn't really love the Reds or Force very much.

Wasteland state.

I wouldnt say that, never really got time to fall in love, just a quickie was all that was afforded.

 

[myrrh ken]

there was a reds error in the lead up which wasn't picked up.

Pretty symbolic of how the club went.

 

[Captain Apollo]

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Being a Pommy merkin, I'm more of a whinge when you can type of twat

I can confirm this

 

[Albert Rosenfeld]

I bumped into Trent Robinson in a cafe in Bronte which he frequents. I wished him good luck, and he thanked me as his face lit up in a mix of red, white, and blue.

 

[Griffoshark66]

View attachment 23769 View attachment 23768 Can’t move in Perth for blue and yellow. It’s a shame Sydney doesn’t love its sports clubs as much as other cities do.

 

[Lambretta]

I can confirm this

Especially when it's my round

 

[yobbo84]

Is it grand final week? Honestly working in the CBD there's zero indication. I haven't seen any jerseys, flags on cars, nothing. The most interesting thing I've seen this week was a pop-up Breadtop store in World Square...

 

[Valheru]

Is it grand final week? Honestly working in the CBD there's zero indication. I haven't seen any jerseys, flags on cars, nothing. The most interesting thing I've seen this week was a pop-up Breadtop store in World Square...

On the fair dinkum stakes I have worked in the city for 10 years and have been in Melbourne during AFL GF week twice. What they do in Melbourne and the atmosphere that week shits all over Sydney regardless of who is playing.

Sydney CBD has never had any buzz for any GF since I have worked there and yes that includes 2016, 2014 and 2010.

 

[Tommy Smith]

On the fair dinkum stakes I have worked in the city for 10 years and have been in Melbourne during AFL GF week twice. What they do in Melbourne and the atmosphere that week shits all over Sydney regardless of who is playing.

Sydney CBD has never had any buzz for any GF since I have worked there and yes that includes 2016, 2014 and 2010.

Yeah that just sums up Sydney. So much apathy towards any kind of event.

Sydney probably hasn't been hyped for a sporting event since the 2000 Olympics.

Maybe it's more in the Melbourne DNA because they have the Melbourne Cup and the Aus Open which is a bit of a sporting festival.

But unless nuclear war breaks out Sydney folk just don't give a f**k about anything it seems. Business as usual 24/7.

 

[Vic Mackey]

On the fair dinkum stakes I have worked in the city for 10 years and have been in Melbourne during AFL GF week twice. What they do in Melbourne and the atmosphere that week shits all over Sydney regardless of who is playing.

Sydney CBD has never had any buzz for any GF since I have worked there and yes that includes 2016, 2014 and 2010.

I was in melbourne for AFL GF week in 2014 and agree with that however re Sydney it depends what you’re doing and where you are. In 2005 Balmain and Leichhardt was insane with banners, flags, ribbons, steamers in every shop, house, street corner. I was on the city on the Saturday night before the GF and there were a heap of cars driving up and down George St with Black and organe paraphernalia all night.

Living in Cronulla 2016 was the same spread across the whole Shire.

I haven’t been there this year but in 2013 I went to the movies at Bondi Junction a few nights before the GF and there was bacially nothing anywhere.

Also remembering the GF hasn’t even sold out yet, admittedly it’s not something I take great notice in previous years of but that’s pretty poor 48 hours away from it when a Sydney teams involved.

 

[Danish]

I bumped into Trent Robinson in a cafe in Bronte which he frequents. I wished him good luck, and he thanked me as his face lit up in a mix of red, white, and blue.

I assume you conversed with him in French, in which Trent is fluent?

 

[Hoofhearted]

The NRL has built no tradition or consistency with Grand Final week, they have all these big plans that seem to fade away after a few years. The one thing the AFL does well is stick with tradition, they have the big parade through Melbourne every year and the buildup is the same so the city has an event feel about it. When a Melbourne team wins the AFL they do a public appearance in the Middle of the city, NRL clubs go out to the suburbs where its only noticed by their rusted on fans.
We need to start building some traditions and stick with it long term, things that make even peripheral fans know that its Grand Final week.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

The NRL has built no tradition or consistency with Grand Final week, they have all these big plans that seem to fade away after a few years. The one thing the AFL does well is stick with tradition, they have the big parade through Melbourne every year and the buildup is the same so the city has an event feel about it. When a Melbourne team wins the AFL they do a public appearance in the Middle of the city, NRL clubs go out to the suburbs where its only noticed by their rusted on fans.
We need to start building some traditions and stick with it long term, things that make even peripheral fans know that its Grand Final week.

Yet nrl is still doing well.

Can do better but it's not a dead beast walking like some negative Neville's crap on about