Finally a sensible postpost_hoc wrote:I can understand why the AFL want to get into Western Sydney, and I think WSW shows that their is a distinct identity that a team(s) from the region can have. By 2031 a further 1.3 million people will be living in Sydney, most of those in the NW/SW area (as well as infill in the inner suburbs) basically the size of Adelaide. So that is a huge market and huge potential that if you can harness the support you get Wanderers again and probably again. BUT, their is always a BUT, the desire for AFL is simply not there in the west, the North West has pockets but I just don't see the interest, unless expat Victorians.
GWS simply do not have an identity, The AFL got pretty much everything wrong with them, they took the position in my eyes of if you build it they will come, much the same way the FFA made a mistake with Heart, GWS was simply Not the Swans.
Yes GWS is a loooong project for them, but I just don't see them being a success at all, just my thoughts on it
Congrats ,it took a while but you got there.
To add to what you said ,some other mistakes fumble house made were
Sending a geriatric Victorian up to Sydney & let him piss off as many people as he could.
RL FANS WITH HIS WHO IS HINDMARSH
Soccer fans with his immigration Dept joke.( & the fact that he was not pulled into line by One whitey parent ball bosses didn't help).
But to me the most laughable was the recruitment of Falou to try to get the large Islander population interested.
Comedy gold ,
After saying something along the lines of we are giving the poor little white kids another option as they are playing against far bigger poly kids in RL .
Then go & recruit a Poly RL player who had played for Melb & the Broncos as some sort of attraction for WS kids
Laugh a minute Victaardians..
liar extraordinaire 
I'm pretty sure the mighty Brisbane lions will become more global than the Blews ever will be
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