Comments on: Marketing black hole in Blacktown, says Roos http://www.theroar.com.au/2008/09/05/marketing-black-hole-in-blacktown-says-roos/ Your Sports Opinion Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:37:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Redb http://www.theroar.com.au/2008/09/05/marketing-black-hole-in-blacktown-says-roos/comment-page-1/#comment-70052 Redb Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:01:40 +0000 http://www.theroar.com.au/?p=10253#comment-70052 The black hole seems to be Sydney's sporting landscape generally. Redb The black hole seems to be Sydney’s sporting landscape generally.

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]]> By: Spiro Zavos http://www.theroar.com.au/2008/09/05/marketing-black-hole-in-blacktown-says-roos/comment-page-1/#comment-69987 Spiro Zavos Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:35:05 +0000 http://www.theroar.com.au/?p=10253#comment-69987 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. 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.

]]> By: Bruce Walkley http://www.theroar.com.au/2008/09/05/marketing-black-hole-in-blacktown-says-roos/comment-page-1/#comment-69970 Bruce Walkley Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:59:25 +0000 http://www.theroar.com.au/?p=10253#comment-69970 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. 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.

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