By Greg Buckle
September 5th 2008 @ 12:50am
View The Roar's top AFL writers.
AFL Tipping now live on The Roar. Join now.
Love new art, fashion, music? Check out Aussie site which unearths all things cool and creative.
Related coverage
Marketing black hole in Blacktown, says Roos
If the AFL is running a television campaign to boost sales for Saturday’s elimination final at ANZ Stadium, Swans coach Paul Roos must be watching the wrong channel.
Roos hasn’t seen it and he’s wondering what’s going on, especially with a second Sydney team entering the AFL in 2012.
The 2005 premiership coach even offered today to [...]
This article is over 2000 days old and has been trimmed.
Get Australia's best AFL opinion emailed daily.
Like this content? Buzz it up!
Free Email updates:
Our daily emails are only sent if there is content for the sport or that author. You can subscribe to multiple daily emails; or get the daily Roar email with all our content in it. We value privacy. More...
(3)
Bruce Walkley said | September 5th 2008 @ 8:59am | Report comment
The question that has to be asked is why this game isn’t being played at the SCG. A two-thirds empty Homebush won’t do the Swans any good, apart from perhaps getting somebody at the AFL to realise that the second team concept is nonsense.
Spiro Zavos said | September 5th 2008 @ 9:35am | Report comment
Good point Bruce. The SCG would have been filled and the atmosphere would have been terrific. But the AFL, like the other codes, seems besotted with ANZ Stadium, which spectators hate. The AFL, too, needs to be careful of hubris. This determination to colonise the western suburbs of Sydney would result in two teams with small followings, instead of Sydney being a one-team AFL town.
The experience of basketball which was determined to have tow Sydney teams is revealing. This is a town that does not take kindly to having teams imposed on it the way, the AFL is trying to do.
Redb said | September 5th 2008 @ 12:01pm | Report comment
The black hole seems to be Sydney’s sporting landscape generally.
Redb