I'm looking forward to having 2 Sydney teams so I can go to more Sydney games down here in Melbourne.
I'm realising you can't really win with a mascot, Demons is already taken so anything else is not going to sound as good.
I'm trying to imagine what the "Giants" chant will sound like now...
This looks terrific... I hope someone who matters is watching this forum... It's modern and traditional at the same time.
Also, there's no way that having a giant G on the front of the strip is a good idea.
So it looks like Giants was decided a month ago...
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-to-unveil-gws-giants/story-e6frf9jf-1225954361689
Plenty of time to get used to it.
GWS Giant... I'll learn to like it.
http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/giant-step-into-new-domain-for-gws-or-are-wolves-at-the-door-20101112-17rbn.html
Looks like it might be (Jolly Green) Giants
Oh well, no WS Deadly.
I guess it can be changed a few years down the track when everyone can be convinced Giants is shite. It...
This is a bit funny,
http://www.cracked.com/article_15646_worlds-most-ridiculous-sports-team-names.html
There's a new soccer team called Melbourne Heart... they may as well have gone for "Melbourne Fluffy Pink Teddy Bears".
Hopefully the Westies have come up with something better... we've got...
It's already decided anyway I suppose, I agree with West Sydney without the Greater.
I come from The Blue Mountains, and never really considered myself as beint from Western Sydney growing up, but I still like the idea of a team there.
For what it's worth some of my submissions to the name the...
Shouldn't the name have something to do with invading Rugby League heartland?
eg. Pioneers, Predators, Vultures, Barbarians
Giants, Wolves, Trojans are all a bit lame IMHO.
Barry is one of the best players that has ever come to the Swans. Up with Plugger and Diesel.
I started going to Swans matches in 1982 and remember most fondly all the oddball stuff like Warwick Capper's shorts. Diesel was pretty aggro too and I loved it when I was a kid.
Barry is not an...