Giants vs Swans @ Spotless Stadium Sellout

[ParraEelsNRL]

Looks like the Wanderes and Sydney FC will play the first derby in the opening round at ANZ, the aim is to get over 55,000.

Now that is a proper derby, not your invented AFL one.

Carlton and Richmond will play in front of 80,000 at the MCG in round 1. Technically the Giants-Swans Rivalry is older than the Wanderers-Sydney derby (Giants first AFL season - 2012 - started about 6 months before the Wanderers first season - 2012-13), fucking invented lol.

Yet it was never called a derby before the Wanderers came in,

yeah because Derby has never been used to describe a game or rivalry ever.

You guys never used it to describe the Swans Giants game before the Wanderers arrived, good to see you AFL types are so frightened of football in western sydney that you nck our terminology.

And your lot stole it from Rugby League just like the lot in the Premier League who stole the name the Red Devils from the local Rugby League side from Salford who were given the name by the French in the 1930's :D

Might have to buy you a beer and argue about that, I do know that there was a football game in 1914 that was termed a local derby in the UK, not sure earlier than that, but I think we can ignore the French and conclude it is a very English term so One of us would have used it first.

I didn't know that about the Red Devils, but as a Tottenham fan I couldn't care less LOL

attending the last match at the club’s old Knowsley Road ground in 2010, that his family had lent their name to two sporting events – the horse race at Epsom and rugby league fixtures between St Helens, at one end of their Knowsley estate, and Wigan from the other.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/ ... and-final-

[post_hoc]

Looks like the Wanderes and Sydney FC will play the first derby in the opening round at ANZ, the aim is to get over 55,000.

Now that is a proper derby, not your invented AFL one.

Carlton and Richmond will play in front of 80,000 at the MCG in round 1. Technically the Giants-Swans Rivalry is older than the Wanderers-Sydney derby (Giants first AFL season - 2012 - started about 6 months before the Wanderers first season - 2012-13), fucking invented lol.

Yet it was never called a derby before the Wanderers came in,

yeah because Derby has never been used to describe a game or rivalry ever.

You guys never used it to describe the Swans Giants game before the Wanderers arrived, good to see you AFL types are so frightened of football in western sydney that you nck our terminology.

And your lot stole it from Rugby League just like the lot in the Premier League who stole the name the Red Devils from the local Rugby League side from Salford who were given the name by the French in the 1930's :D

Might have to buy you a beer and argue about that, I do know that there was a football game in 1914 that was termed a local derby in the UK, not sure earlier than that, but I think we can ignore the French and conclude it is a very English term so One of us would have used it first.

I didn't know that about the Red Devils, but as a Tottenham fan I couldn't care less LOL

attending the last match at the club’s old Knowsley Road ground in 2010, that his family had lent their name to two sporting events – the horse race at Epsom and rugby league fixtures between St Helens, at one end of their Knowsley estate, and Wigan from the other.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/ ... and-final-

ahh but we don't know when they bestowed the name, the Derby from horseracing was in the late 1700's or early 1800's but not when they destwoed it on local teams

[ParraEelsNRL]

His family my friend, they go back centuries.

There are threads at wigan and st helens forum talking about this, they have more info in them at rlfans. Been talked about quite a few times over the years.

Also, I think you may be forgetting that these RL clubs are more or less as old as the oldest Rugby clubs in existence, they were part of the original Union.

[Fred]

Pretty big crowd. Not full so if a sellout not all turned up. Very few empty seats on TV. Standing room under stands looked checkers though. Wonder where this will feature in the newspapers tomorrow ?

[AFLcrap1]

Very few empty seats . .

Lol are watching a different telecast to others

[Fred]

No, watching the same game as you aflcrap.

[AFLcrap1]

Not watching
Flicked over to see how many empty seats .

[Swans4ever]

21500 biggest crowd to date a very good result!

[Fred]

Not watching
Flicked over to see how many empty seats .

:D

[Darren]

From what I saw the crowd was good. The game though was the usual AFL offering, a lot of fumbles and mistakes punctuated by the odd break out of actual play. I really think they should play with a soccer ball like they do in the Irish international games. The players just can't seem to control the oval ball.

[Xman]

From what I saw the crowd was good. The game though was the usual AFL offering, a lot of fumbles and mistakes punctuated by the odd break out of actual play. I really think they should play with a soccer ball like they do in the Irish international games. The players just can't seem to control the oval ball.

you clearly dont understand the rules which dont allow a player to simply hold the ball while tackled.

[Fred]

Great catch Darren.

[NRL&NFLweLaughATafl]

There is no way that was a sellout. Saw the the sports preview and there were lots of empty seats.
And all we heard all week was this game will sellout and tickets are hard to get lol =D> =D>
More of AFL believing their own hype as usual.

[NRL&NFLweLaughATafl]

There is no way that was a sellout. Saw the the sports preview and there were lots of empty seats.
And all we heard all week was this game will sellout and tickets are hard to get lol =D> =D>
More of AFL believing their own hype as usual.

[Xman]

There is no way that was a sellout. Saw the the sports preview and there were lots of empty seats.
And all we heard all week was this game will sellout and tickets are hard to get lol =D> =D>
More of AFL believing their own hype as usual.

it still easily accounted for the 3 NRL games in Sydney this week