Greatest waste of space ever - RL stadia

[TLPG]

Homebush is, always has, and always will be western Sydney. The border between it and inner west is Strathfield. And the full name is GREATER western Sydney just by the way.

[Xman]

Yeah I'm really worried about the greater weste....... hang on they don't even play in western sydney anymore. Unless AFL fans have decided that Homebush is now western sydney

Since when do fans of a club need to come from the area the club plays in??

That mentality is bazzar and holds RL back big time.

The giants are Sydney's first genuine local club, given the swans were relocated. I would think that would encourage some fans to jump on.

[justanotherleaguefan]

Greater Western Sydney not true "westies"
01 Jun, 2012 03:53 PM

Singer Roseanne Cash once famously said she’d put the c.......back into country.

Well, it can now be said the Western Sydney Giants have taken the western out of the GWS.

That GWS is now false advertising.

Call the minnows the Sydney Giants, call them anything, but the AFL can’t pretend the club represents the golden west.

This follows the announcement the Giants will play home games at a new super-duper stadium at Homebush, for which the taxpayer has tipped in a lazy few million, and have a new superduper training facility at Homebush, to which the taxpayer will tip in a lazy few dollars.

The Olympic Park complex at Rooty Hill will host a token few games until the superduper Homebush home is fully up and running, and the Rooty Hill base will be a future academy for budding youngsters.

Note Rooty Hill, not Blacktown.

Media consumers will be used to the west regarded as some homogeneous mass somewhere outside of Strathfield, and the media’s having scant acquaintance with geography and demographics.

Thus someone can refer to the inner-western Sydney suburb of Westmead on the television news, we can have Lalor Park in Sydney’s northwest and Auburn in Sydney’s southwest.

Apart from knowing these descriptions are plain wrong, westies would know the suburbs are worlds apart in character.

Hardly an homogenous potential audience for the Giants among those three, and that could apply to any number of suburbs described as Sydney’s west.

It’s forgiveable that the Victorian media could refer to the Giants as being based in Blacktown.

The Sydney media should know better, however.

Rooty Hill aint in Blacktown.

It’s enough to make the good folk of Rooty Hill boycott the Giants, despite coach Kevin Sheedy’s superlative spruiking.

But then Rooty Hill and surrounds haven’t so much boycotted the Giants as ignored them.

The Giants were always starting from nil-interest in a rugby league heartland that takes in Blacktown and Rooty Hill and considerable surrounds, Penrith-Windsor and considerable surrounds, Campbelltown and considerable surrounds and Parramatta-The Hills and considerable surrounds.

Homebush could almost be classed as the inner-city these days.

It aint the west.

If the Giants wanted to win ultimate recognition and loyalty in the west, they would have been better off playing their home games at Rooty Hill before 10,000.

They might get 25,000 to Homebush, but those spectators won’t be coming from Blacktown, Rooty Hill and Penrith in numbers.

The club can call itself the Sydney Giants or the Homebush Heroes.

It’s a joke if it claims to represent western Sydney and such an association will be regarded as a joke, an example of AFL arrogance and hubris too far.





Just cause it works in Victardia doe's not mean it will work in Sydney

[Xman]

Truly odd!

"this team doesn't play in my suburb so I can't support them!"

How odd are you lot!

Is this one of the reasons the RL crowds are so poor? Fans won't travel outside their region to see their team?

[MarkZZZ]

Homebush is, always has, and always will be western Sydney. The border between it and inner west is Strathfield. And the full name is GREATER western Sydney just by the way.

Last I heard the geographical centre of Sydney was Parramatta. For mine the west is to the west of that.

[TLPG]

We aren't talking geographical, Mark. Not a good idea to be pedantic over this one. The border has always been Strathfield and it always will be.

That article Justa quoted is pure BS. No surprise that there isn't a link so we can't see who actually wrote it and where!

[MarkZZZ]

I live in Sydney and don't consider, like most people I know that Homebush is west. The true west is west of Parramatta. Blacktown, the Hills district, Campbelltown, Rooty Hill, Penrith and the like that is the true west.

[TLPG]

One man's opinion means nothing, Mark. My brother in law lives in Sydney, and he considers west of Strathfield west - as do the rest of his in laws. To call Parramatta not west is an insult to Parramatta. They've been west since the place was first settled as a country town!!

[cos789]

Homebush is, always has, and always will be western Sydney. The border between it and inner west is Strathfield. And the full name is GREATER western Sydney just by the way.

Last I heard the geographical centre of Sydney was Parramatta. For mine the west is to the west of that.

Your illogical thought knows no bounds and is not backed by anyone.
The geographical centre of the Sydney metropolitan area is homebush or Parramatta or whatever.
Parramatta is a city in it's own right.
Sydney is the city, that place beside the harbour.

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[MarkZZZ]

Oh dear cos


Have a look at what you have written and then think about it. There are a number of suburbs that call themselves a "city". Do we really want to go down the path of defining what area is covered by the City of Sydney (see below) and see if GWS have any right to call themselves a Sydney team. Of course there is a wider definition of what Sydney constitutes and it embraces a numeber of suburbs that have "city" status. The general and widely accepted area that covers Sydney does not exclude Parramatta City, Rockdale City or Hornsby City or any of the other areas that have "city" status. To truly define what is "Western Sydney" look at the map and you will see that it is generally considered to be the area starting from Parramatta and west from there.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Sydney#Geography

Suburbs within or partially within the City of Sydney are:

Alexandria
Annandale
Barangaroo
Beaconsfield
Camperdown
Centennial Park
Chippendale
Darlinghurst
Darlington
Dawes Point
Elizabeth Bay
Erskineville
Eveleigh
Forest Lodge
Glebe
Haymarket
Millers Point
Moore Park
Newtown
Paddington
Potts Point
Pyrmont
Redfern
Rosebery
Rushcutters Bay
Surry Hills
Sydney CBD
The Rocks
Ultimo
Waterloo
Woolloomooloo
Zetland

[justanotherleaguefan]

Have any of these fuckwits even been to Sydney?

[pookus]

Have any of these fuckwits even been to Sydney?

At least the AFL is in the fight and doing what the NRL dreams of doing.Who gives a crap about your percieved povincial borders.Four teams in expansion territory = AFL one team =NRL.You are hundreds of millions of dollars behind on this front so good luck with your own expansion. AFL supporters in General support our expansion clubs,wish them the best,you insular little fools hate the Storm.This is why expansion will never work in league too many self interested parties.Have these F^%&^%ts ever left Sydney ?

[TLPG]

Have any of these fuckwits even been to Sydney?

Yes I have and I hate the place. I am also a master of maps, and I can safely say that Mark is talking rubbish. Cos got it right about Parramatta being a city in it's own right - as I pointed out with regard to it starting life as a country town.

Geographic centre is irrelevant. The border between the western suburbs and the inner western suburbs is Strathfield. If you were to call Homebush or even Lidcombe inner west you would be insulting the residents. They are in the western suburbs - like Granville, Parramatta, Westmead, Seven Hills, Blacktown etc etc.

And just to back that up - where did the Western Suburbs Magpies play before they went to Leumeah?

LIDCOMBE!!

I rest my case!

[King-Eliagh]

Have any of these fuckwits even been to Sydney?

Sorry justanother I'd have to go against you and say a few of them prob have. But their mental capacity would not allow them to understand what west sydney is, let alone the term 'greater western sydney'.

The VAST majority of sydneysiders understand homebush is a stones throw from the 'innerwest' and that it by no means represents what is 'greater western sydney'. Its a massive cockup made by the head honchos down at AFL HQ. I can just see it now.

Demetriou: ok folks we need some sort of plan to try and take over greater western sydney and make it AFL heartland

Honcho 1: wheres the west of sydney?


Demetriou: i dont know i think its where the homes get near the bush, check the map

Honcho 2: homebush?

Demetriou: spot on chief our new greater western sydney team will be located at....Homebush! Time to take over that place they call Greater Western Sydney

[TLPG]

The VAST majority of sydneysiders understand homebush is a stones throw from the 'innerwest'

Therefore, it is western suburbs!!