Where is Australia's least successful sporting city?

The Suns have it in hand, instead of calling themselves an Australian rules football club as logic would suggest, they've lumped for the generic "football club". That way, they can play any code without having to change their letterhead, a significant leg-up.

According to Wikipedia (which is not always correct) Some of the events you state were 'Stolen' by Melbourne were first staged in Melbourne. Australian Grand Prix "it is generally accepted that the Australian Grand Prix began as the 100 Miles Road Race held at the original Phillip Island road circuit in 1928" Australian Tennis Open The Australian Open was first played at the Warehouseman's Cricket Ground in Melbourne in 1905. This facility is now known as the Albert Reserve Tennis Centre. In reality both these event were taken back to Melbourne where they belong.

All the big sporting events Melbourne has, (excepting the AFLGF and the Melbourne Cup), they stole from other cities. -The Australian Open started in Sydney in and was 'moved' to Melbourne in 1972. -Adelaide brought F1 Grand Prix racing back to Australia in 1985 and Melbourne pinched it in 1995. -Melbourne has reportedly been sniffing around Adelaide's World Tour Cycling Event, the Tour Down Under, obviously jealous of the European Media attention SA's capital gets during this wonderful event. -Melbourne seems to spend its time looking covetously at other cities, like Sydney trying to compare itself favorably even though Sydney smirks at Melbourne for the most part. classic insecurity complex from Melbourne;) Canberra is a 102 year monument to the inability of Melbourne and Sydney to agree on anything of major importance for the benefit of the country. Let us know when Melbourne creates something another city would want to steal. obviously the above post is mostly tongue in cheek;) 'mostly' :)

Apart from having the Australian Open, Pat Cash, Mark Philippoussis, John Fitzgerald, Paul McNamara, Paul McNamee, Anastasia Rodionovaetc etc, Melbourne has contibuted nothing to tennis.

What have they ever had a team in?

What has Darwin ever won?

I'd say Melbourne is the biggest loser. Contributes nothing to the following 1. Rugby League; 2. Rugby Union; 3. Football (last decent player Viduka (good lord)); 4. Cricket; 5. Swimming; 6. Tennis; 7. Field Hockey. These are 6 out of 7 of this countries favourite sports (and field hockey) and Melbourne contributes nothing.

no worries sportsfanmelb, and thanks for the info. As I said never been there and only hear about the GC when we talk sport or schoolies or bimbos etc ;). Am pretty sure the lifestyle is great though. Dunno much about afl, bit more about the Titans. Thing is I think any franchise based up there will always have the 'not so serious' tag attached to it. I also have the impression most locals aren't really locals (correct me if am wrong) and might have allegiances with other clubs in most sports no?

Kasey, nickoldschool - From a Titans point of view they had enormous fan fare when entering the league and played up the fact they were the new Qld team in town to take on the Broncos. They lost a lot of goodwill firstly when they were caught counting players, referees and ball kids as part of the official attendance and the biggest factor was all the tradespeople and various companies that were screwed over by the Titans Centre of Excellence. Add to this sub par seasons of late and the crowds go down I am afraid. The other hurdle they will face this year is a poor schedule in the opening of the season while the Broncos go prime time for 10 rounds straight. The Suns crowds are as low as they will get the past 3 seasons. They were belted pillar to post by many teams home and away and toward the end of last year showed improvement. They have a good draw for the teams they play at home this year, a great stadium deal, a team on the improve and the Gold Coast is a holiday destination for Vic, NSW and SA. Living on the GC you can see that it is a multi sport city and Aussie Rules is just getting bigger year on year.

Never been to the GC Kasey and am not sure I will go after reading your comment (that's exactly how I picture it btw ;) Good call high shot.

That'd be JOE Carter of the Blue Jays in '93.

Indeed If I wanted to hang out with drunken Aussie bogans, why would I bother with Bali, when the GC has no currency exchange issues, a health/Legal system I understand should things go a bit pear-shaped and is likely cheaper to get to.

Good point, it is indeed

How many professional sporting teams have died on the Gold Coast?? All those 80s incarnations of a RL team(Seagulls, Chargers) A-League Gold Coast United - although you could pin most of the blame on Clive Palmer I guess How are the Titans going? occasionally I see highlights on Fox Sports News and the stands are no longer jam-packed with fans that blue is something I got used to seeing in GCU games! ...has the gloss of the new toy worn off already? If RL cant make it work in Queensland of all places, the whole country might as well give up on GC I reckon. The Suns I guess are shielded from too big a fluctuation in crowds by their incredibly good stadium deal negotiated for them by the AFL. Even still, if their crowds fell away sharply, they might find it harder to attract sponsorship. They derive enormous benefit from being a great away trip for sun starved Victorians in the middle of Bleak-city's AFL season.

Not sure about Cronulla but from a Bulldogs perspective they have had periods of success without reaching the Grand Final. they played in a preliminary final in 1997 losing to the Crows and they were involved in 3 straight preliminary finals between 2007-2009. Unfortunately they were not able to capitalise on being around the mark and possibly just lacked a little bit of the quality that Geelong, Hawthorn and Collingwood had at those times. St Kilda is another who has gone through a period of remarkable success during the home and away season up until 2011 but they are now due for a spell in the lower reaches of the ladder.

If you are going to do this, it's probably unfair to group small cities like Newcastle with the capitals? If you're going to do that, it is still Gold Coast who compared to cities like Newcastle and Canberra, have never won anything. Of the major cities, it is tough to compare Sydney and Melbourne to the other three as they have some many clubs in so many sports, not to mention longer histories in most sports, like the Shield for example. Perth and Adelaide are amazingly close in most sports and are comparable in having no League teams and Perth's Union team having won nothing yet. Adelaide has 13 Shields, 3 AFL Premierships, 1 A-League Premiership and 4 NBL titles; Perth has 15 Shields, 3 AFL Premierships, 0 A-League Premierships and 5 NBL titles. I believe Perth had a few wins in the old NSL, I am not sure about Adelaide clubs. Perth also have a T20 title to their belts as well. Brisbane has 7 Shields, 3 AFL Premierships, 2 A-League Championship (1 Premiership), 3 NBL titles, but on top of this have 1 Super Rugby Title (several more when it was amateur) and also six (6) NRL titles. Brisbane also won a T20 title the other year as well. Being from Brisbane and therefore biased, I'd have to say that Adelaide appears to be the worst, with Perth having more NBL titles, more Shields and a T20 title, plus also supporting a Rugby team at the same time...

Last team to win the AFL two years in a row - Brisbane Last team to win the NRL two years in a row- Brisbane Last team to win the A-League two years in a row - Brisbane

The Gold Coast is Australia's sporting graveyard.

Broncos won it in 2006 anyway

Newcastle made the list but Perth didn't? Damn, that's harsh!