A - it means NSW is acknowledging Victorian football which should remain as insular as possible for all eternity, and
B - it validates VFL Inc’s enormous plundering of resources into Sydney’s west. I mean, fuck, I’d probably rather Wanderers win a GF given they were a team the locals actually wanted and embraced their heritage by stealing public funds along the way. That’s better than having a premiership basically bought by the governing body, on behalf of a team no one needed nor even cared about until they started winning a few years ago.
That’s the dad of the player who’s repeatedly been done for eye-gouging, yeah? And has a previous assault charge. The apple clearly didn’t fall far from that tree.
Yes its like choosing between a turd and a shit, but I’d also take WSW having success rather than GWS, and I’m glad GWS was slaughtered in the GF.
GWS is just a cynical, manufactured & artificial exercise on every level. Even the name Greater Western Sydney is something thought up in Melbourne boardroom from some asshole who hasn’t even been to western Sydney. Even the AFL tried to have a dollar each way by having them be sorta half from Canberra. WTF???
And who the fuck actually calls western Sydney “Greater Western Sydney”? No one uses the expression “Greater Western Sydney” except for demographers, statisticians, weather reporters, etc. Not once in my life have I ever heard anyone from western Sydney refer to where they come from as “Greater Western Sydney”.
Their entire fanbase is made up of relocated Victorians and the feeble minded who have been brainwashed with saturation advertising. I would not be surprised if more money has been spent by the AFL advertising GWS alone than the FFA have spent advertising the entire A-League since its inception.
I might hate WSW & their fans but but at least they are legit. Fuck GWS and fuck the AFL. I hope GWS come last every year so the AFL fucks them off to Canberra and then folds them because a Canberra team is ultimately non-viable.
Quality rant. 100% bang on the money.
Also thank Christ, it’s done for the year. Victorians on telly bantering about it in non-related programmes is one of my least favourite things in the world.
The downward trend is encouraging. Though I think that reflects a general downward trend in live sport on TV rather than lowered interest in AFL specifically.
This seems to be an issue, they really need to start factoring in streaming services to ratings. After all, at least the data on streaming is really accurate (even factoring in attrition during the stream etc.) whereas traditional ratings are based on a small sample size of viewers projected to represent the whole population.
