Should the AFL introduce a Western Sydney team ?

A big step for the league, as Sydney honors rugby as their Gods. Will the AFL Western Sydney team draw together enough members, will they get enough support, will they get another players most important of all, will Western Sydney agree on deciding to make an AFL team, or should the AFL instead leave Hawthorn as a Melbourne side and make a Tasmanian side, but i am pretty happy on the AFL making a Queensland side, tell me what you think, Should the AFL introduce a Western Sydney side ?

Should the AFL introduce a Western Sydney team ?
Sydney doesn't honor rugby as their Gods, it supports all codes and a reason why the AFL wants to have another team in the city. Which rugby do you refer to anyway, league or union, as there are 2 types and league is the most supported.





I do not think it would be in the games best interests to have another team in Sydney as I see Tasssie need and derserve one. It isn't national competition until you have Tassie, ACT and NT, so they should start with Tassie first.
Reply:no they shouldnt...


i think if the AFL are going to definitely introduce two new teams it should be tasmania and the gold coast.


all the states have 1 or more team(s), why put another team in west sydney- a rugby-dominated area instead of giving a state that doesnt have a team, like Tasmania, who actually like football, and where a substantial amount of AFL players have come from like...


Justin Sherman (bris)


SimonWiggins(carl)


Sam Iles (coll)


Jason Laycock (ess)


Andrew Lee (ess)


Sam Lonergan (ess)


Grant Birchall (haw)


Mitch Thorp (haw)


Brady Rawlings (kang)


Russell Robertson (melb)


Jack Riewoldt (rich)


Peter Street (WB)


give tassie a go!
Reply:NO


Demetriou cannot get it that certain states have adopted the first AFL team as the state team, and forming another is so much waste of time.


OK Port got a premiership in a weak year, but really, Port and Freo have struggled since they were nominated to a real competition.


Leave each state other than Vic to have ONE team each, with transferred teams in Canberra(Kangas), Tasmania(Tigers) and FNQ(Carlton maybe?) - how popular would that be for midwinter games - leave St Kilda and Essendon and Collingwood to stand alone and combine Melbourne and Hawthorn(Melbourne Hawks)and Geelong and the Dogs - Western Cats - and everyone plays everyone twice!


If Sydney has the taste for thuggery that the Hall incident indicates, it will only get worse if Welfaretown gets a team, good riddance to them.
Reply:You obviously don't live in Sydney if you think that "Sydney honors rugby as their Gods". For a start if you are Aussie you don't even know how to spell honour or what Rugby means and I would confuse you if I even mentioned League. AFL will work in Western Sydney but you would have to live here to understand that so unless you do (which you obviously don't) then stop making assumptions about a city you have no idea about.
Reply:Yeah, for sure.





Relocate Carlton to West Sydney %26amp; the Kangaroos to the Gold Coast. Get them out of Melbourne....they are a drain on the league.





Don't worry about Tasmania. Not enough people or money down there to make a team there worthwhile. If they want to watchb a match they can do on the visits AFL teams are now doing....or otherwise they can travel to the mainland.
Reply:we have all answered this 15 times, the consensus is tassie deserve a team b4 any silly idea where western Sydney is concerned, the AFL will prop both new sides up, why not prop up a footy state's team. that's it.
Reply:I think it is a great marketing idea to try and make it the number one game in Australia to have extra teams in Sydney, Queensland and Tasmania, but they should be relocating struggling vic teams
Reply:I don't like the idea at all. Tassie wants a team and the gold coast want a team. Western sydney don't want one so don't give em one. I also don't like the idea of the 17 round season. Much too short.
Reply:Yes.





I've said it a hundred times - relocate a couple of those deadbeat Melbourne clubs to the Gold Coast %26amp; western Sydney.
Reply:No, We need a Tasmanian and a Northern Territory team for sure.
Reply:Why put a side there when they dont want one .it goes against all the principals of supply and demand.(why supply something thats not wanted)
Reply:No way


west sydney dont want it


but Tassie does


second QLD team would work


and the GC sharks will be that team
Reply:i agree with the first poster





west sydney dont want it





give the licences to tasmania and gold coast sharks
Reply:Noooooo





WHAT ABOUT TASSIE???????
Reply:yes


relocate west coast


they will save money on their habbit


cheeper in west sydney
Reply:no............. there is no need, bring in a tassie team
Reply:Pretty rough part of town...they'd have to make thuggy Hall their captain.





p.s. I believe they ARE introducing a team.





edit---hmmm, it seems a few people are still confused about each State's primary winter sport so let's spell it out for them and then do some extrapolations based on populations.





Vic - 5 million people (10 AFL teams) - Australian Rules rules, rugby has struggled with just a single team in only one of the codes, soccer is still marginalised as an ethnic sport





WA - 2 million people (2 AFL teams [both with massive membership waiting lists]), Australian rules is the primary sport and played for over a century, rugby also struggled with Western Reds failing in the 90's and a retry not exactly making headlines, soccer same story as Vic





SA - 1.5 million people (2 AFL teams), Australian rules only, no rugby team (that I am aware of), soccer? bah!





Tas 0.5 million people (0 AFL teams), same as SA





Qld and NSW (1 AFL team each) - enshrined rugby states and the AFL teams still maintain suspiciously strong links and cultural identities with the defunct Victorian teams from which they emerged





ACT 0.35 million people (0 AFL teams) - rugby





NT 0.1 million people (0 AFL teams) insufficient population to support any national representation in a major league





Extrapolation - firstly let the rugby states keep their token teams and then assume the AFL is hellbent on having 18 teams in the comp.... then apply population based model for remaining 9 million AFL loving Aussies i.e 1 team for every 560,000 people.


Vic = 9 teams (8.92)


WA = 3 teams (3.57)


SA = 2 teams (2.67)


Tas = 1 team (0.89)


But that only makes 17 teams you say? OK let the Vics keep their 10, they won't give one up anyway. Bugger the Northern States, why should they get our AFL dollars?