Recent content by Badger17

It's no great feat to outdraw a match against the Gold Coast Titans, especially when you're throwing around free tickets like confetti. Don't play coy and pretend it's not happening, we all know the Giants have been giving free tickets to every kid 15 and under and I personally know multiple...

"How could a footy fan not want Manuka to be upgraded", well I do want a new oval stadium, however unlike you I understand that those concerns don't exist in a vacuum and that it'd be both irrational and deeply unjust to prioritise more upgrades to Manuka or a new oval stadium for two sports...

I didn't realise this was the inquisition. It's pretty self-evident that I support local Aussie rules and an AFL side in Canberra, I wouldn't be wasting my time on this if I didn't. I take an interest in many sports as well. Does my interest in football, ice hockey, and basketball, among...

We both know that I'm not wrong at all, and I'd bet that GWS isn't even in the top five most popular AFL sides in Canberra/Queanbeyan. Heaps of people have them as their 'second team', but it's very unusual to find a person who claims to be a Giants fan first and foremost. At the very least...

I'm just giving a neutral and objective reflection of the feelings around town without any spin or BS, which, ironically, because of you have a heavy bias towards the AFL and don't actually care about Canberra, it's community, or interests outside of how they can benefit the AFL, is why you're...

There's no way that Henson Park or Blacktown could host AFL fixtures without major upgrades, and I can't see the NSW government being willing to invest in those upgrades for 3 fixtures a year.

The AFL may want Canberra to remain part of GWS, but it's only a matter of time before the ACT rejects GWS as 'Canberra's team'. Nobody here genuinely considers them Canberra's team as it is frankly, and the repeated assertion by many that they are shows a total lack of understanding of the...

The short answer is that they couldn't afford it. They'd be forced to do it all at once, but the light rail is bankrupting the ACT so they can't afford to do it all at once. They can't delay the light rail for political reasons, Bruce Stadium has desperately needed replacing for over a decade...

RL and RU people are generally more up to date on the stadium debate, probably because Bruce is literally falling down and spewing raw sewerage at this point. The talk is that the push to upgrade Manuka in pursuit of a BBL license is a bit of a front. Don't get me wrong, Cricket ACT want the...

There's definitely some talks going on behind the scenes, there's too much smoke to that fire for it not to be the case. What we don't know is how serious those talks are. If the whispers around town are true it'll cause one of the biggest political shitstorms since self governance, which would...

Owls are cool, but griffins would be the way to go if you wanted something a bit unique and with more of a traditional Canberra/ACT vibe about it.

It wasn't until you came in with a semantics argument. The day they stop playing games here GWS's support base in Canberra will shrivel to almost nothing, just as Norths and others did before them. For the vast majority of people here that buy GWS memberships it's a marriage of convenience...

Andrew Barr's sycophantic relationship with the AFL and GWS claiming it because it's convenient doesn't make it true. You wanna be Canberra's team you need to be a part of the community and exist for it's benefit. GWS is neither. GWS doesn't live in the community, it doesn't represent it in any...

Is that really surprising? Plenty of people I know from Melbourne wouldn't have a clue who Glenn Lazarus, Cam Smith, or Billy Slater were either. I know people round these parts don't like hearing it, but the truth is that most people in NSW probably couldn't name a single Swans player.

Repeating something over and over doesn't make it true. The Giants are not, and never will be, Canberra's AFL team. Even the people I know that are Giants members aren't really Giants fans, GWS just helps meet the demand for live footy while there's no other option. Punt the Giants and replace...