Sydney won’t be shocked when the Swans win the AFL grand final. We’re just better at Aussie rules than anyone, especially Victorians.
Well, I am so old I remember when Aussie rules was purely a down-south thing! In black and white they used to run around in a game that looked like a cross between an upturned bowl of spaghetti and the fall of Saigon, and all we could do was wish them well without having the first clue what it was about.
And no, I am not here to poke gentle fun at Melbourne teams and the good-hearted folk who still support them, despite everything.
At this point, we must pause while our friends the Melburnians point out that their city, too, has a champion rugby league team, called the . . . the . . . the . . . oh, come on, don’t say you can’t immediately conjure the club’s name?Melbourne at least have the Storm this weekend.Yes, indeed, the fact that Victoria also has a great rugby league team the way we in Sydney have two great AFL teams is interesting, but no more than that.
Despite the efforts of commentators like your humble correspondent when I was young and stupid to put a stop to all the nonsense, the truth is that Aussie rules goalposts have been spreading all over Sydney for decades now, including in former purely rugby league strongholds like the western suburbs and rugby union strongholds like, (The point is that while Melbourne has a great rugby league team the same way that land-locked Switzerland once held the America’s Cup – a curiosity, borne of...
But, yes, we must also acknowledge that the struggle – if you want to call it that – for Aussie rules supremacy is not anSydney preserve. Against all odds, the Greater Western Sydney Giants didn’t make the grand final, which is a pity as it sort of seems against nature these days not to have the grand final as an all-Sydney affair. Instead, the Swannies will be playing some mob from north of the Tweed, which I think go by the name of the Brisbane Lions.
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